System and method for providing analytics for a communities framework

A community can be accessed via a portal and can maintain user membership during collaboration projects. Members of the community can access various resources stored in nodes within a repository. An event object can be provided that wraps a node within the repository such that data regarding the event object is persisted in the node. A developer can target a particular action within the system and associate the event object with that particular action. A set of event listeners can listen to the event objects and collect them as the targeted actions occur. These event objects can be placed into a buffer and subsequently persisted to the repository. The system can thus maintain a count of the occurrences of targeted events as they occur. In this manner the health, trends and behavior of the community can be monitored via created event objects.