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Most people will probably see this plugin as merely a community enhancement designed to encourage interaction between users. And this plugin delivers in that area! But it can be so much more!

Thanks to the versatility of the Community Builder platform, we use CB for volunteer communication, personnel tracking, and project planning. I have several CB/Joomla installs setup to allow my staff and I to manage thousands of volunteers and dozens of projects. This setup has replaced our previous software tracking system which cost over 1 Million Dollars! (We still use that software for other things CB/Joomla can't do.)

One install is used to allow the volunteers to communicate with each other. ProfileBook is a brilliant community jumpstarter that gets our volunteers talking with each other right away and keeps them on the site day after day. with volunteers all over the world, this is vital to our success.

Another CB/Joomla site allows my staff to track volunteers and instantly look up any detail about a volunteer. The volunteers do not have access to their profiles on this site. ProfileBook allows my staff to leave comments about a volunteer and their work. Whenever I need to know something about a volunteer, I just read through the comments my staff have made in their profile.

Yet another install allows my staff from around the world to plan and coordinate our projects by using a profile as a project planning page. CB fields become a wizard like process to follow when planning. ProfileBook allows us to comment on the project and note when we've made a change to the project. Thanks to ProfileBook, we can track the history of how a project has developed down to the day, time, and person making the changes.

All in all this is a brilliant plugin that can be of great use to anyone who wants an active community, an advanced tracking system, or an online collaborative project management center.

A huge thank you to the CB Team for their amazing software and this great plugin!