BuddyPress Presentation - WCPhilly

1. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution

2. Who am I?
Tim McKenna
Digital Designer, Front End
Developer
WordPress/BuddyPress Advocate
Owner/Principal of Azrael Group
Communications Specialist with
PAFP
Board member of AIGA Central PA
Usually mistaken for Bigfoot
Jim's Steaks Fan

3. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
A powerful (yet elegant) suite of social networking
components made the WordPress way, to help you build a
flexible and robust community.
Basically, a social network in box.

4. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
A powerful (yet elegant) suite of social networking
components made the WordPress way, to help you build a
flexible and robust community.
Basically, a social network in box.

5. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
As an enterprise solution, a BuddyPress enabled site
becomes more than a social network. It can be
become a social CRM, a community of practice,
membership site, eLearning suite, and a company
intranet with project management capabilities.

6. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
Case Study
PAFP Community

7. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
Connect over 5,500 family physicians with an intuitive online
collaboration tool to further primary care initiatives in
Pennsylvania.
Allow the physicians the ability to create interest groups,
collaborate on online documents, vote on issues, and
participate in live streaming webcasts for education
accreditation.
Make it private with no public social media ties.
Make it work on all devices.

8. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
There already are vendors who make customized social
network solutions.
Tibbr
Yammer
Higher Logic
Chatter
CubeTree
These solutions ranged from $30,000/year to $65,000/year

9. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
BuddyPress
bbPress
Private BuddyPress
BuddyPress Docs
BP Activity Plus
Xprofile Roles
Gravity Forms
BuddyDrive
Mass Import & Export
File Repository
CometChat
Asana Task Manager
Event Registration
VoteNet Integration
Critical Impact Integration
WP-Pro-Quiz

10. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
The PAFP Community launched in September 2013. Its first
test run was with a weekly eLearning series called the
Regional Lecture Series. 6 lectures from physicians across
the state broadcast live every Wednesday for 6 weeks.
We saw a 1300% increase in attendance to the online
sessions than we had in previous live meetings in the past.

11. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
We now have an active engagement of over 500 members
who have adopted the PAFP Community into their
workflow, with interest groups that bridge the live
meetings and online activity.
Chiefly, it allows members to connect with each other and
make decisions regarding how to best care for patients.

12. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
We aren't the only ones using BuddyPress.
CUNY Academy
American Geophysical Union
Distriklaare – Family Physicians group in Sweden
City of Harrisburg
Harrisburg Area Community College Design Program

13. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
Open Source and
Enterprise are not
mutually exclusive.
Both can have
profound effects on
each other when
implemented properly.
I highly encourage
proposing open source
solutions for enterprise
use.

14. BuddyPress: An Enterprise Solution
Ask me about BuddyPress, Design or Bigfoot.
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