drupal-news
04-12-2008, 01:13 AM
The recent explosion of social networking sites has led to a rush to tap into new markets. A case in point at ISL (Insight + Strategy + Logic) (http://www.islco.com) is Red Room (http://www.redroom.com), an online community for writers of all stripes. The project is the brainchild of entrepreneur Ivory Madison. The goal of the site is to be the premier destination for authors to congregate with fans and discuss their books and ideas. Many high profile authors including Maya Angelou (http://www.redroom.com/author/maya-angelou), Amy Tan (http://www.redroom.com/author/amy-tan), Khaled Hosseini (http://www.redroom.com/author/khaled-hosseini) and Salman Rushdie (http://www.redroom.com/author/salman-rushdie) have been on the site since day one.
While the Web has plenty of sites on which you can buy books, there is a paucity of places geared toward building dialogue about the books beyond what is necessary to move product. On many book-related sites, the authors themselves have largely been left out of the picture, leaving them to either establish their own limited Web presence or do without. This is a shame when you consider what could be on a good author website — who better to blog than someone that makes a living spinning a good tale? Red Room offers every author the opportunity to easily build a presence to interact with their readers and with each other.
http://www.islco.com/images/redroom.jpgThe client came at us with a list of features: blogging, comments and reviews, biographies, information about published works, event listings, streaming video, and podcasts. They required a robust, moderated, and extensible backend, with tagging and search tools to allow the user to navigate the large volume of content that thousands of writers would pump into the site. Most importantly, the site’s content generation tools needed to be easy to use by authors that wouldn’t necessarily have experience using technology.
read more (http://drupal.org/node/224467)
Read More... (http://drupal.org/node/224467)
While the Web has plenty of sites on which you can buy books, there is a paucity of places geared toward building dialogue about the books beyond what is necessary to move product. On many book-related sites, the authors themselves have largely been left out of the picture, leaving them to either establish their own limited Web presence or do without. This is a shame when you consider what could be on a good author website — who better to blog than someone that makes a living spinning a good tale? Red Room offers every author the opportunity to easily build a presence to interact with their readers and with each other.
http://www.islco.com/images/redroom.jpgThe client came at us with a list of features: blogging, comments and reviews, biographies, information about published works, event listings, streaming video, and podcasts. They required a robust, moderated, and extensible backend, with tagging and search tools to allow the user to navigate the large volume of content that thousands of writers would pump into the site. Most importantly, the site’s content generation tools needed to be easy to use by authors that wouldn’t necessarily have experience using technology.
read more (http://drupal.org/node/224467)
Read More... (http://drupal.org/node/224467)