Curating beautiful collections with Nodequeue (a.k.a. How I built a better Scoop.it)
When a colleague started using a site called Scoop.it to collect and share resources on a topic of her expertise, I knew my site had a problem. I carved out a large chunk of time, and built a new feature - Collections - to keep the resources and their audience on our site.
In this session I will share a detailed visual walk-through of how it works for viewers, authors, and administrators, and how I built it with Nodequeue, Views, Panels, CSS, and a lot of elbow grease.
HASTAC.org's Collections feature utilizes contributed module Nodequeue to allow users to aggregate and sort nodes of any kind on the site. A new content type was created to store the description and metadata of the collection, as well as optional comments on the collection. Finally a Panel is use to override the node display to add the curated nodes based on the URL argument. This feature is in beta at time of proposal, but will be be launched and used publicly months before DrupalCon, so I expect to bring many additional insights and enhancements.
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This looks like a great session on a technique used successfully by sites both big and small -- but especially helpful for sites with smaller staff. Nodequeue is a huge staff/moderation timesaver! I'd love to see this accepted.
By the way, I soft-launched this feature today. I'm uploading new screenshots now and will be able to share the link publicly next week! Hopefully it won't be too late to help with session selection. ;-)