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Try out the Drupal Newsroom Module Beta Release
Today, I'm excited to announce the Drupal Newsroom Module beta powered by NewsCloud. The Drupal Newsroom provides an excellent way to add dynamic current events and news to your Drupal-powered Web site. It's also a great way to stimulate involvement and discussion in your online member community.
The Drupal Newsroom module provides a page for your Drupal-powered Web site with news stories based on specific topic(s) from NewsCloud.com or populated by your staff or site members. The newsroom module allows your members to browse headlines, read stories, vote, comment and post new articles.
The Drupal Newsroom allows organizations on different Web sites to collaborate, selecting stories for a topic-based newsroom, sharing the content and discussions from their site with other like-minded groups.
Features
- Share news stories within your Drupal-based Web site community
- Automatically feed stories into your Web site from NewsCloud.com based on a topic or seed them yourself
- Allow your members or staff to post their own stories
- Allow your members to participate in the story presentation process by voting on their favorites
- Allow your members to comment on stories and engage in discussions
- Allows your organization to pre-approve all public stories (optional)
- Republishes your news stories to the NewsCloud.com community (and optionally comments) for additional outreach
- Provides an RSS feed of your newsroom available for your site members
Visit the Drupal Newsroom Demonstration page to see it in action. You can log in with the credentials user name: user and password: user to post stories, votes and comments.
Learn more or download the beta at the NewsCloud Wiki.
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Congratulations on the release, Jeff!
We can't wait to try out the module -- we have folks asking us all the time for options that will let them integrating news sharing into their site, and this should fit the bill for a lot of them.
Jeff, I hope it's ok if I point out that this is partly a NetSquared success story: some of the resources and conversations that supported the development of this module came out of relationships that were established through submitting NewsCloud to last year's NetSquared challenge.
Just a reminder to other folks that entering this year's MashUp challenge is about a lot more than the possibility of funding via Netsquared: it's a great way to find potential partners, collaborators and other opportunities.
the release
yes it sounds like the release looks like it went well
congrats to you