Wanted: private community site solution | The Coffeehouse

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Our company was asked for a solution for a (private) medical community site, where users (doctors) can upload videos and discuss them. Are there niners that have experience with this kind of sites (a kind of private Channel 9)?

ZippyV
Fired Up

In this case I would say you're lucky the source code of C9 is NOT available. Devil

For the videos I would recommend to use Expression Encoder with the IIS smoothstreaming option (it's pretty cheap).

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to ZippyV

#Sep 29th @ 11:47 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, but before developing an application ourself, we're first looking around for existing solutions.

I went to ReMix 2009 today, so I got a serious injection of Silverlight, Expression Blend, RIA Services and ASP.NET MVC, and a slight craving to start using it. On top of that, I won an Expression Professional Subscription, so yay. But for this project, we're looking for existing solutions.

joechung

I would take a look at Telligent Enteprise. SharePoint is another possibility, but you would have to use a third party WebPart like Bamboo SharePoint Video Library to handle the video requirement.

xgamer
Two Sides to Everything

I am not sure exactly what sort of community you are looking for but I had used ning.com previously for a simple community developed for my friend. It seemed ok.

Also recently when I was looking for some CMS solution i came across few opensource CMS (PHP) which have social networking component may be you can have a look at them . They are http://elgg.org/, pligg.com and www.boonex.com/products/dolphin

May be they are worth looking at ...

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to joechung

#Sep 29th @ 1:46 PM

SharePoint was one of the options, but (based on advice from a SharePoint implementor) we decided not to use that. This community will be a closed community (not everyone can register) of doctors and students, where doctors will upload videos and members can discuss those videos.

figuerres
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In reply to TommyCarlier

#Sep 30th @ 1:42 AM

for the privacy issues and for part of the security i would do this:

setup the microsoft certificate server on a box behind the firewall.

setup the main web area to use SSL - use any standard SSL vendor.

then issue a client cert from the ms cert server and put the name of the user and the pc name in the cert address info.

then on the web site add the "require client cert" flag.

then in your asp.net master page you demand the cert and read it's attributes.

this alows you to verify the login - username and password

AND the machine used to make the login.

in your site management you then have to talk to cert server to revoke certs when the member is closed and or when the member stops using a given pc.

given that you need high security - due to the subject matter and who uses the site this bit of hassle should be worth the time.

show them that you are beeing carefull and that even a username and password by it's self will not give access to the confidentail data.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to figuerres

#Sep 30th @ 3:49 AM

The videos are not sensitive. Their current solution is to use YouTube, but they want something they can control better.