Open Social

Community Engagement Platform

Create digital spaces that empower your members to share with Open Social's out-of-the-box solution for your online community. Open Social is used by international organisations around the world such as The United Nations, Greenpeace, the European Commision, FIFA and many more.

Check out @OpenSocialHQ for the latest updates and news.

Open Social is a great match for knowledge sharing, communities of practice and ideation communities. It's used by NGOs, governments and hundreds of organizations, big and small, to connect to their members, volunteers and customers.

Partners and allies regularly sponsor development of the Open Social project. Sponsors are UNDP, foraus, The European Commission and many more.

Open Social as Software-as-a-Service

Open Social is also available as a Software-as-a-Service. This includes hosting, support, automatic releases, plus the possibility to get access to all our extensions and professional services.

Extensions for the Software-as-a-Service

Open Social offers numerous extensions. Here are some of them:

1. Real Time Chat
   Chat is a convenient feature that allows people to communicate in real time with one another without interrupting the tasks they are busy with.
2. Zoom or BigBlueButton Integration
   This extension adds the option to connect a live video room to any open social event. The site manager can configure this extension to use Zoom (if licenses are available) or Big Blue Button as an open source alternative. With the start of the event a link to the meeting room is automatically made available for all enrolled members.
3. Real Time Content Collaboration
   This feature allows multiple members to work together on a single document at the same time, make edits, add comments and propose suggestions that can be accepted or rejected. More information can be found over here.
4. Native App
   Reach your members whenever they are on the go with a native app and push notifications and keep your community connected. More information can be found over here.
5. Dashboard
   The dashboard is a tool used for easy information management and simple community intelligence. It’s user-friendly interface provides an at-a-glance overview of key performance indicators relevant to you and your community. More information can be found over here.
6. Organization Profiles
   Create a dedicated space for Organizations within your community. Members can follow or become members of organizations,share organizational content, and promote networking opportunities and initiatives in a structured profile. More information can be found over here.
7. Resource Library
   The Resource Library gives you an easily navigable directory of selected content picked by the community managers (i.e. manuals, research papers, and company news). Click here to see the resource library in action

Enterprise services and support

Open Social provides professional support and Enterprise services to the software-as-a-service customers. This is provided directly by our core teams and our agency partners. A few examples:

• Custom extensions and integrations (API)
• (Security) Audit
• Maintenance and Support
• Performance Optimization (with Blackfire.io)
• In-house Developer Training
• Community Building Consultancy

Contact Open Social

Open Social News and Vacancies

Want to work on a meaningful product with an amazing team? Check out all our vacancies at Open Social Careers.

For developers and site managers: roadmap, issue list and documentation

We recommend using Composer to install Open Social. See download and install instructions at the bottom of this page. Other resources:

• Bug and feedback through issue queue on Drupal.org.
• User manuals for (end) users, site and content managers.
• main documentation for general questions, contributing FAQ and more...

Tools to help spreading the word on Open Social

Highlighted projects and showcases

• Open Social success stories: Success Stories
• Beautiful design and great use of landingpages: SDG Philanthropy (drupal.org case)
• Award Winning Software - International Splash Awards 2019: splashawards.org
• Award Winning Software - Website of the Year Splash Awards DrupalJam 2020: UNDP SparkBlue platform
• Demonstrating multi-language capabilities: Open Social in Arabic

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