Summary
A social network is a social structure made of individuals or organizations called "nodes," which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. The network concept sits at the core of the Tribalise approach.
Function
In its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between all the applicable nodes. The network can also be used to measure social capital – that is, the value that an individual gets from the social network. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines.
General Features
- Photo and Video Galleries
- My Blog
- Private messaging system (friends)
- Chat
- Facebook connect
- Customizable user fields (profile)
- Groups
- External application support (APPS)
- Activity stream
PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERIES
Media sharing is one of the most popular activities in social networking. Having interactive photo & video galleries in your community is crucial to the network’s success. Your community will thrive as users are able to:
Upload videos either directly to your site or embed videos from 3rd party video sharing sites such as Youtube. Video-posting capabilities are built right into Tribalise Communities, so there's no need for separate video components to configure.
FACEBOOK CONTENT
Facebook with over 200 million active users worldwide, chances are someone registering at your community will already be a member of Facebook.
To make the registration process hassle-free, we've included a Facebook-Connect login-module so your members can log-in using their Facebook account details.
Profile pictures, status updates & more can be “pulled” in safely & securely from your Facebook, making it easy for new and existing users to sign up and stay logged into your network
MyBLOG
Blogs are a good way to keep new visitors coming back to your site for more. Your members can have their very own blogs, post entries directly from their profile pages, and share those blog posts with friends via the New MyBlog3/Tribalise Communities plugin).
Additionally, your members' blog posts will now show up in your community's Activity Stream. Tribalise Communities Avatar support is included, and each member can accumulate "user points" with every blog post they make.
PROFILE (CUSTOMIZABLE USER FIELDS)
Want an easy way for your members to find new friends with similar interests? This can be achieved by profile field matching. In the Tribalise backend, Administrators are free to add any number of custom profile fields for their members to fill out.
These customized profile fields make it easy to search and link members to one another based on age, hometown, interests and any given field the Administrators chooses to use. 3rd Party Friend-Suggest plugins, which help with successful “friend” matching, are currently available in our Add-Ons Directory.
PRIVATE MESSAGING SYSTEM
You can keep your members on site LONGER if they are able to message their friends directly from within your community. With Tribalise Communities’ Private Messaging System, your members can send a private message to anyone within their network.
FRIEND-BUDDY SYSTEMS
Making new friends and maintaining existing relationships is the essence of any social network. Tribalise allows your users to connect and build meaningful friendships with other users in your community.
Tribalise Communities’ intuitive design makes it easy to search for and add new friends. We understand that privacy is important. That is why we've made it easy for your users to approve or reject new friend requests.
GROUPS 
Tribalise Communities GROUPS allow like-minded members within your community to build their own mini-communities, made up of members who share their same interests. Tribalise Communities enables:
- Users to Create and join groups.
- Group Members to post on group walls
- Group Owner/Creator to publish news bulletin
- Users to initiate and participate in group discussion
- Administrators to control group membership and access
- Users and Members to subscribe to group activity streams
EXTERNAL APPLICATION SUPPORT (Apps)
There are dozens of external 3rd-party plugins for Tribalise Communities that will enrich your community members' experience.
Media Player Plugins for Tribalise Communities (audio & video), Video sharing plugins, Twitter feed plugins, Flickr photo galleries plugins, and so much more await you in our Tribalise Communities Add-Ons Directory--which is updated daily with the coolest Tribalise Communities plugins available.
TWITTER UPDATES 
Twitter is described as a micro blogging service but its popularity lies in its social networking abilities – allowing you to create a network with a group of people based on your interests, location, target market - whatever common purpose you desire. Tribalise’ Twitter Updates allows a user to push their Twitter feeds to their profile page in the Community.
The keyword to remember when using Twitter is that it is social networking. It’s about sharing, not selling. That’s not to say that you can’t talk about your business – engage with your followers and use your products to illustrate interesting points, reflect the personality of your Tribe.
FRIENDS LOCATION 
Once friends include their complete address in their profile, your friend locator will automatically include them on the map.
CHAT This component allows Facebook/Gmail style chat to your website for specific groups of users. This can be used by operational and project teams to remain in close working contact. This module allows for an alternative to email that is not only faster but also more effective as it contains an audit trail and it less obtrusive than a phone call or face-to-face communication while working.
- Module Supports Showing all online users or only team members
- Automatic scheduled purging of chat database
- Optionally keeps chat boxes open when pages are browsed/refreshed
- Automatically links URLs posted in the chats
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