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Integrating "big social" into an alumni site

This is a quick follow up post...

A while back, in a post about alumni and social networking, there was some discussion on this blog about iModules plans to pull Facebook into its alumni application. A post from a few weeks ago on the iModules blog (good for them for blogging, by the way), there was a post called "The Facebook Challenge," in which blogging VP Mike McCamon discusses their intended approach to integration with social networking sites such as Facebook. He writes,

"later this year we plan to make it easier for our users to include their Facebook badge inside their profile page of our community software.  We also plan in that same timeframe to integrate 'views' into many other social networking sites like flickr, YouTube and others.  The idea is to offer a variety of simple ways for our communities to link to content in those social networks without risking data integrity in our clients' systems."

So, that question is answered. It will be interesting to see how it works. Sounds like they're not going so far as to fully integrate any social apps into their product, but they will provide links. I wonder if it works on the flipside -- will they create Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and other apps that allow alumni to post from their social accounts into their alumni accounts? Could be useful.

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