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Episode Duration: 1:49:04
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples), David Lewis (Highway of Life), and Patrick O’Keefe

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On this episode, Patrick O’Keefe (owner of the iFroggy Network of blogs and communities) rejoins us on phpBB Weekly, this time to talk about his just-released brand new book, Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards. After first talking with Patrick about how and why he wrote the book, we then go chapter by chapter, looking at the various points that he makes in his book and discussing them.

We do highly recommend this book (no, we’re not getting paid to say that) because it covers a lot of important things that prospective community admins should know that you won’t find in any user manual. If you want to find out more about why we’re so excited about this book, check out (no pun intended) this episode.

In addition, we wrap up our listener survey by doing our prize drawing! Winners have been notified by e-mail and should reply to the e-mail in order to receive their prize.

Related links for this episode:
Book Website
Book Press Release
ManagingCommunities.com Blog
CommunityAdmins.com Forums
Douglas’ Review of the Book

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Episode Duration: 41:18
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples)

Continuing our tour of the permissions system in phpBB3, Douglas talks about detailed management of users and groups. For users, this includes a guide through all of the features in the new User Administration panel, how to use the new Inactive Users panel, and the one or two updates to the Ranks admin panel. In addition, Douglas describes everything new for Groups in phpBB3, including the age-old question of the difference between Special Groups and User-Defined Groups.

Then, Douglas describes how to set Global Permissions for users and groups. This includes permissions for what users can and can’t do in their User Control Panel (including private messages permissions, etc.). Global Permissions also allows admins to grant users and groups full or limited access to the moderator or administration panels, with very detailed control over what users can and cannot access in these panels.

Finally wrapping up the tour of the Permissions tab, Douglas explains the layout of Permission Masks (a place to view current permissions set without editing them), and also goes through how administrators can create their own custom Permission Roles.

The MOD of the Week is Event Registration by NetizenKane, and the Style of the Week is Morpheus eXtreme by CyberAlien.