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Hi,

I'm new to both CiviCRM and Drupal, and trying to figure out the best way that our non-profit can organize users around interests. On Drupal signup, the user would select all the topics they're interested in, and those interests would allow us to do mailings and such on the CiviCRM side, but also on the Drupal side they would have access to certain groups or other content based on what they selected.

At first I thought "Tags" were the way to go, but I created a profile to display tags on registration, and it seems to show all tags. I need a special separate type of tag for interests only.

At this point I'm a bit confused as to the best approach for this. I think Organic Groups will eventually be part of the mix, but the *most* important is CiviCRM. Any suggestions?

I hope this question isn't too broad, I'm just trying to get a sense of how I can build a solution around CiviCRM that will work for our needs, and how much of it can be done in concert with other out-of-the-box modules.

Thanks
H

For your tag problem: we have dealt with similar issues for TNI, and they use tags and tags within tags for grouping people on interest.
Erik