og (Organic group) module setup / usage in Drupal

Organic group module enables users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. They do so by posting the usual node types: blog, story, page, etc. A block is shown on the group home page which facilitates these posts. The block also provides summary information about the group.

1. Download and extract the Views module into your /sites/all/modules directory, and enabled Views and Veiws_RSS under Admin->Site Building->Modules.
2. Download and extract the Organic Groups Module into your sites->all->modules directory.
3. Go to Admin->Site Building->Modules and enable the OG module.
4. Go to Admin->Content Management->Content Types and create a new content type. I entered the following:
   
• Name = Group
• Type=groups
• Description=A collection of people with a common goal
• Title field label=Group Name
• Body field label=blank
• Minimum number of words = 0
• Explanation or submission guidelines = blank for now
• Default Options= Published, Not Promoted, Not Sticky, Don't create new revisions
• Default comment settings = Disabled
• Save Content Type
  
5. Go to Admin>>Organic Groups>>Organic Groups Config and:
   
   • Access Control: Enable/Disabled your choice (I need to read up on this some more. I've used Taxonomy_Access in the past).
   • Group Details: Pretty self explanitory.
   • Node authoring form: Whatever seems right to you. Under Omitted Content Types, you'll probably want to select the "Group" content type you created above, but that might happen automatically after the next step.
   • Group home page: Under Group home page node types, pick your Group Content type you created above.
   • Email settings: as desired.
   • Member pictures: as desired.
     
6. Go to Admin>>User Management>>Access Control and set certain roles to create and edit and edit own Groups.
7. Now you can go to Create Content>>Group and create your first group.