Thriving online communities

An online community is an excellent way to build strong relationships with your target audience. Organisations that want to promote and develop relationships with their target users, be they external website visitors or internal Intranet users, can derive great benefits from community functionality.

EPiServer Community is a well established product over 5 million people are members and 500 000 people log in every day in community implementations out there.

Collaboration

Many companies are fuelling collaboration around their brand with management of their own communities. Running your own communitygives you control over thecontent and allows you to integrate user generated content into your site. This user generated content will keep users on your site longer as it is likely to be highly relevant and this increased time on the website will aid exposure to your brand.

Features

• Comprehensive user profiles including "walls", blogging, commenting, image and video galleries and user to user private messaging.
• The ability to setup community groups that include forums, events calendars and galleries to support the creation of specific topic areas or themes for public facing websites, or departments for Intranets.
• Full text search that allows filtering by specific community elements.
• Robust community management for site managers including activity monitoring / reporting, full user profile access, configurable workflow approval for content and abuse reporting.

Relate+

Community comes in lots of different flavours. There's the Relate+ package which comes with a pre-built set of templates with either a public or intranet flavour, then there's always the option to do a completely customised implementation tailored exactly to your requirements with as few or as many community features as you desire.

The information you are collecting about your users can all be used to tailor that personal experience.

It's also worth remembering that these aren't the only "social" things that you can add to your site. We have experience of adding just simple blogs and commenting systems, social media "like" buttons etc. Get in touch to talk about how we can increase user interaction on your site.