Drupal Newsroom Module
From Newscloud
Beta Release (powered by NewsCloud)
Overview
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.
Visit the Drupal Newsroom Demonstration page to see it in action. You can log in with the credentials user name: user and password: password to post stories, votes and comments.
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
Requirements
Steps to setup
- Sign up or sign in at NewsCloud
- (Be sure to check your email and click the link to verify your account)
- Get your API key
- It will resemble 1326-ap/EH1tqb1oe2
- Download the Drupal Newsroom module and install it on your Web site
- Set up a topic Cloud (or join an existing cloud) at the NewsCloud Cloud directory
- You must be a member of a Cloud for the module configuration to select some for you to pull stories from. Or, you will be offered to choose from our default Clouds such as World, Technology, Business, Arts, etc.
- Configure the settings from your Drupal Website Newsroom navigation link and you will be ready to go!
Ways to Post Stories
- Click Create a news story in the Drupal Newsroom navigation
- Or, post using the NewsCloud bookmarklet:
- (drag it to your browser bar from the Post a Story page)
- (or post directly at the above URL)
About NewsCloud
NewsCloud is a news community with a social change mission where members from around the world collaborate to choose and discuss the most compelling and important stories of the moment.
Contacts
The Drupal Newsroom Module is in beta. Please send feature requests and bug reports to jeff@newscloud.com. This module was developed by Dave Tarc (dave.tarc@gmail.com). Thanks to Alex and Rob at Social Signal for helping in the specification of the module features and Jodie Tonita for making the introduction.
