Buddypress Widget Pack is a series of 4 widgets that you can add to your Buddypress-enabled sidebar. The four widgets are: 1)Popular Members widget 2)Newest Members Widget 3)Random Members Widget, and 4)Total Friends and Friend Connections Widget
Credit needs to be given to WPMU.org and Sarah Gooding for a majority of the code, as I just widget-ized it 😉
Please see the original tutorials by Sarah, here:
http://wpmu.org/display-friend-count-and-recent-connections-in-the-buddypress-sidebar/
http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-a-gallery-of-members-avatars-in-buddypress/
Features include:
1. Popular Members widget
2. Newest Members widget
3. Random Members widget
4. Total Friends and Friend Connections Widget
Other
For more info visit Commons.esc.edu/damon-cook