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Hi,

I am wanting to start a new magazine style site with CiviCRM core and potentially a Drupal face (+ some functions) and was hoping some folk could give me few tips on how to integrate and appropriate structure. The site will need the following functions

1. free monthly newsletter
subscription based - containing general info, some ads, plus a summary of the latest 'public section of the site' content.

2. Paid monthy e-zine/magazine
Paid suscription based - containing general info, some ads, plus a summary of the latest 'private section of the site' content. The e-zine can also be downloaded as a pdf (possibly using Drupal - E-publish, http://drupal.org/project/epublish). Monthly E-zine's need to be archived.

3. Shopping cart
There needs to be a shopping cart associated with product advertisments in the site, newsletter and ezine

4. Discussion forum
suitable discussion forum for paid subscribers

5. CRM
I intend to integrate civicrm to manage clients which will be able to post the newsletter/e-zine and have follow up emails/communication with tracking of service history. This will also allow for grouped correspondance based on identified client preferences. That are submitted with the users registration.

I would really appreciate any help people could give.

Thanks in advance!!

cameron

Thanks for your response Peter,

fortunately i've been through the trials of integrating civicrm with og and set up a range of forum user groups, admins etc so I feel comfortable setting that up. Ubercart will be a new task but i'm sure I'll find my way through.

I have also integrated civicrm profile with the standard og registration previously allowing for additional user information fields to be used but no worked purely with civicrm profile as the registration. Have to think about what the benefit would be either way...

How to form the free newsletter is still a question i.e. wanting to have an html/text template based on public section site content? Drupal folk have suggested using the 'simplenews' (Drupal) module however it does not seen to be able to integrate with the civicrm registration?

The paid e-zine as a combination between CiviMember + ubercart + E-Publish (Drupal) I feel should work, just have to get my head around the inteconnections and process for delivery.

Thanks again... if you have insight about the newsletter, or any other comments much appreciated!!

All in all it seems a solid foundation to move forward with trial and maybe a couple of errors 

Please forgive my inability to express what I'm looking for...Having not used Civimail before I am not yet sure how it works. How you have described it i.e. having it all on the Civi side with reporting is what I want. It also sounds that registration can be taken care of in the same format as the paid e-zine. Would you mind expanding on what you meant by 'either you format for your drupal site and then insert formatted html in to civimail'? Is this a two step process?

Mainly i was looking for something that could generate content via a template from existing public pages for the free newsletter and also via template (published monthly issue by issue) for the private pages for the e-zine.

I'll do some experimenting and see what works.

Thanks heaps!