Social Networking for multi-author books?
Does anyone use social networking sites to help coordinate multi-author projects? What do you use?
We're considering setting up some sort of a system that can be both a blog and a network - kind of like Ning.com, but on a professional level.
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You might also want something like Google Sites (I am trying to persuade the team for a client's book project to use this), where everyone can keep up to date with the most recent version of all files. Or any other wiki solution, if you want multiple people to work on a document at the same time.
I've heard people say good things about Drupal as a way to combine various website tools, but don't know anything specifically about its collaboration features.
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If you don't find a solution, I suggest creating a social network using Ning or Crowdvine. Ning claims to provide the ability to launch a social network in under 2 minutes. The only downside of Ning is that they put contextual Google advertisements, but at least those should be specific to your audience. Ning is incredibly easy to use.
Using Wordpress blogs in a network in combination with Ning properly done is a great way to create web content and increase your search engine optimization.
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You might to check out open source content management systems such as Joomla.
If your authors are journalists, they can register for the free beta of a productivity tool and social network created by the guys behind the Publishing 2.0 blog.
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Have you considered finding someone to start a website for you? If you use a back-end content management system like Drupal, there are plenty of options for making a wonderfully-designed website on the front (the part everyone sees) with easy access for everyone participating in creating the content. If you want some more information, just contact; I have a good resource.
