Community Builder Anatomy – Part 3 – The Contact Manager

My flickr friends ( well some of them ... )

Contact manager enables community members to mange their list of friends, or foes (those who have been blocked). A contact manager could be as simple as a sorted list of user profiles, or it could get very sophisticated similar to the ones used on flickr or facebook. Friends can view content and activity logs of each other that aren’t otherwise publicly available. In contrast foes have no access to a user’s private or sometimes even public profile.

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Community Builder Anatomy – Part 2 – The User Manager

User manager is the backbone of every community builder application and it is often combined with an Access Control List (ACL) to grant or deny access permissions to users who interact with the system. A user profile contains information about a user’s identity and possibly the history of activities. User Manager is also used for registering and authenticating the community members.

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