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Ben’s SEO Blog: Drupal Learns To “Socialize”
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-17

Sun, Aug 30, 2009 12:45 PM
Our friend Ben Finklea at volacci.com blogged this week about a new Drupal module called “Socialize”, developed by Gigya and Acquia. Socialize enhances the social features of a Drupal site, enabling site owners to authenticate users to Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, as well as mail programs such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail. It allows your Drupal website to push content and user activity out beyond the site and into the social networks, driving interactivity and viral promotion.

As announced in a July 23 press release, other features of Socialize include enabling users to invite friends to the site, or to share site content or a specific event and send status updates, tweets and newsfeed events to their social networks. The Gigya Socialize module has been fully integrated with Drupal’s user action and trigger core modules so Drupal site owners can configure the viral promotion channels to work dynamically.

The module is fully configurable and installs in minutes with no programming. The module is available, free of charge, on Drupal.org. View a webinar of the tool under acquia.com.
http://www.gigya.com/public/Content/About/Press.aspx?m=Press&p=1281

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