Using Drupal to connect Social Investors with Social Entrepreneurs

OVERVIEW The Ashoka Support Network is a global community of successful business people who share Ashoka’s belief that entrepreneurs are the primary engine for economic and social development. The Ashoka Connect Site is a social networking site in Drupal to connect ASN members with Social Entrepreneurs around the world. It allows them to: – Follow a selected fellow’s profile and news. – Search for fellows around the globe in particular fields of interest. – Connect with Ashoka to pledge investments or request to meet a fellow – Find out more about the Ashoka Support Network and its events Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs.

ARCHITECTURE Drupal DB Fellows DB Drupal 5.X: Custom Theme Key Core Modules: Profile Taxonomy Key Contributed Modules: Forms Events GMAP API CAPTCHA Custom Modules: Fellows – Provide user front end Fellows Admin – Provide Admin back end Fellows Migrate – Import Fellows from DB eForms – using Forms API

SITE TOUR

KEY FEATURES FELLOW PROFILES Created custom node type – fellow_profile Imported node data and tagged using taxonomy terms using Fellow Migrate module from Fellows Database Allowed us to use Drupal’s core functionality better than dynamically pulling results from Database Cron job automatically updates fellow profiles from Fellows Database daily GMAP block to pinpoint Fellow’s location on map if geo-code available. Links at bottom of node for ASN Members to take action, if signed in can bookmark Fellow in Favourites list

KEY FEATURES: FELLOW PROFILE SEARCH Created custom search form page. Hooked into Search index API to insert key profile fields into Drupal search index Hooked into Taxonomy to filter results by taxonomy terms in Drupal Listed results as node teasers or on GMAP with pins showing all fellows that have geo-coded location attached.

KEY FEATURES FELLOW PROFILE SEARCH RESULTS

KEY FEATURES FELLOW PROFILE SEARCH – MAP RESULTS

KEY FEATURES FELLOW ADMINISTRATION

KEY FEATURES EFORMS

QUESTIONS? David Gildeh MEng Ashoka – Romanus Berg (in development!)