The need for a community

Are you a part of a group that needs to share events, have forum discussions, or post information? Need to share information in a group but not use other social channels to do so? Community Builder is a great fit for neighborhoods, HOAs, and local clubs (e.g. chess clubs, 4-H groups) that have not had an easy way to affiliate or have maintained a manual web site. Community Builder is in a beta mode right now but is taking limited new community requests. You can submit your request a community from the contact form.

Features of a community

• Hosts can start a community and invite users.
• Users can sign up and create a profile include address and, optionally, phone number, to appear on the community map and phone list, both of which are available only to other registered users.
• Hosts can build a discussion forum. Users can post content and polls to sample what other community members think about ideas concerning all.
• Users can add events to the event calendar, including an RSVP ability.
• Users can write articles for the front page, which features the newest articles. All articles are also filed by topic.
• The host can configure sources for fresh news from other websites, and it will listed on the news page.
• Users can subscribe to get email on new things from the community, choosing the types of emails on the user's profile page.