BuddyPress Presentation - WCPhilly

BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution

Who am I?Tim McKennaDigital Designer, Front End DeveloperWordPress/BuddyPress AdvocateOwner/Principal of Azrael GroupCommunications Specialist with PAFPBoard member of AIGA Central PAUsually mistaken for BigfootJim's Steaks Fan


A powerful (yet elegant) suite of social networking components made the WordPress way, to help

you build a flexible and robust community.

Basically, a social network in box.


A powerful (yet elegant) suite of social networking components made the WordPress way, to help

you build a flexible and robust community.

Basically, a social network in box.


As an enterprise solution, a BuddyPress enabled site becomes more than a social

network. It can be become a social CRM, a community of practice, membership site, eLearning suite, and a company intranet with project management capabilities.


Case Study

PAFP Community


Connect over 5,500 family physicians with an intuitive online collaboration tool to further primary

care initiatives in Pennsylvania.

Allow the physicians the ability to create interest groups, collaborate on online documents, vote on issues, and participate in live streaming webcasts

for education accreditation.

Make it private with no public social media ties.

Make it work on all devices.


There already are vendors who make customized social network solutions.

Tibbr

Yammer

Higher Logic

Chatter

CubeTree

These solutions ranged from $30,000/year to $65,000/year


BuddyPress

bbPress

Private BuddyPress

BuddyPress Docs

BP Activity Plus

Xprofile Roles

Gravity Forms

BuddyDrive

Mass Import & Export

File Repository

CometChat

Asana Task Manager

Event Registration

VoteNet Integration

Critical Impact Integration

WP-Pro-Quiz


The PAFP Community launched in September 2013. Its first test run was with a weekly eLearning series called the Regional Lecture Series. 6 lectures from physicians across the state broadcast live every Wednesday for 6 weeks.

We saw a 1300% increase in attendance to the online sessions than we had in previous live meetings in the past.


We now have an active engagement of over 500 members who have adopted the PAFP Community

into their workflow, with interest groups that bridge the live meetings and online activity.

Chiefly, it allows members to connect with each other and make decisions regarding how to best care for

patients.


We aren't the only ones using BuddyPress.

CUNY Academy

American Geophysical Union

Distriklaare – Family Physicians group in Sweden

City of Harrisburg

Harrisburg Area Community College Design Program

BuddyPress: An Enterprise SolutionOpen Source and

Enterprise are not mutually exclusive.

Both can have profound effects on

each other when implemented

properly. I highly encourage proposing

open source solutions for

enterprise use.


Ask me about BuddyPress, Design or Bigfoot.

@AzraelGroup

@PAFPandF

azraelgroup.com

pafp.com

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