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
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
Case Study
PAFP Community
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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: An Enterprise Solution
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
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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.
BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
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