New from NETTUTS.com is this tutorial looking at the construction of a social network with the help of Joomla.

Social network implementation has become a necessity for successful websites. Joomla!, the popular Open-Source CMS, has some great and affordable ways to bring your site to the social networking level. Let's review how.

He defines some of the strategy of the site to start - who will use it, how will they use it, how much control should they have, etc. He also lists several extensions that can be dropped into place to add in some of the more popular social networking functions like EventList, MyBlog and JomComments. The implementation of a few of these is shown (with a few screenshots) and examples of sites using Joomla for social networking are thrown in at the end.