Leadel.NET is a Jewish media hub showcasing the rich variety of contemporary Jewish voices and expressions. Focusing on the state of Jewish identity and activity in the 21st century, Leadel uses digital media to both reflect upon and inspire innovation and creativity.

We recognize that in today’s technological global community, it is sometimes difficult to find one’s way to sites with meaning and value.  Luckily, Leadel.NET brings meaning and order to those seeking to explore, express or rediscover their Jewish identity through their own achievements and those of others.

Launched September of 2008, in our quest to lead Jewish inspiration around the world, Leadel provides a communication portal for Jews to showcase initiative, explore values, and network today's achievers with tomorrow's innovators.  

As a Jewish site aimed at achievers, we set a goal to take part in the revival of the discourse regarding our Jewish values and how they affect our lives. Only with a strong sense of identity can one truly connect to themselves and their community in order to pursue his/her core passion.

So become a member, and be sure to fill out your details! No really, technology behind Leadel and our Website is that cool that it will learn about you and adjust your likes and dislikes according to your activity and tags!  So come on in, login, comment on your favorite video, read our blog, network with your peers, or simply- press play, sit back and let your horizons expand. 

Join the thinking revolution,
The Leadel Team

Leadel.NET was initiated by the European Jewish Congress and funded by the European Jewish Fund.
 

Leadel.NET the Website - Technical Site Knowings from DRUPAL

Our Think Tank:

The think tank is used to create an associative display of the different categories used to segment the “talks” in the site.

It's built by a custom service that gets the taxonomy_tree of the categories vocabulary and adds additional meta data about these categories (like their colors and descriptions).

The think tank has three functions depending on the location the surfer is in the site.  We have code checking the url we're located at and passing a flashvar to the flash with the desired mode. In the home page the tag cloud is used to filter the Talk carousel by sending the chosen category's as arguments to the Talk carousel's view and thus filtering the result to display talks from the chosen categories.  In various internal pages you can run a search on a category and receive a standard "talks" result.  In the member edit page the think-tank is used to set the members identity through setting his color-line on things which he feels build his identity.

Now that you get it, pretty cool, huh? :)
 

The color-line is saved in a hidden field in the members cck and is displayed using css which shows the percentage of the identity the specific category picked occupies.

To enable the color-line's evolution, we then created a service embedded in to the player which added a small percentage of the color from the category to the talk that is being viewed, in to the color-line.

That way after a while the member's true interests start to be communicated through his color-line.

The color-line is not just displayed in the users member's page but in various listing of members across the site.