If you're anything like me, you've been to events that required more effort to find information than it did to participate. You hear about the event on Twitter, follow the link to the LinkedIn or Facebook post about it, follow that next link to Meetup for registration details and RSVP information, then back to Facebook or LinkedIn for photos, discussions, and updates.

So why not a one-stop shop? One ring to rule them all? That's exactly what we started thinking here at LevelTen Interactive. Then we thought, "do something about it."

This week's Speak Easy Drupal is all about social communities. If you've been around Drupal for very long, you know that a lot of Drupal's power and appeal lies in it's ability to easily create next generation, web 2.0 community based websites. In this episode, we go over the best modules to test for your community website, propper ettiquite for any social community, and examples of top Drupal community websites.

Our panelists this week include:

• Rachel Scott

Drupal, and its contributed social modules, is the perfect system to create a powerful, feature-rich, online social community or networking website, while limiting development expenses and time to get up and running. Here are the best Drupal modules, default and contributed, for social networking that LevelTen has utilized on our community websites: