| Multi-microsite |
You can create numerous communities, each as an individual microsite that can be administered in its own right. Community administrators who are authorised by you can manage features and data across all your sites. |
| Branding |
Customise page templates by modifying and adding Cascading Style Sheets associated with the template. Add logos to the template to create a customised look and feel that integrates with your existing site/s. Features, Tabs and navigation menus can be configured as and when required. |
| Language Options |
Comment supports content in any language. |
| RSS boxes and content panels |
Add RSS content to your community pages. Incorporate widgets from other websites or include your own content. Use the space for your own news, promotions, special images or advertising. |
| Member Profiles |
Define your own profile questions for joining members. Advanced search criteria may be customised based on your profiling questions. Profiling questions may, for example, be job function or location based. Members can be subject to an approval mechanism before they join. Activity of non-members may also be included in monitoring statistics. Member activity can be carefully managed by your community administrators to enable different levels of access to information, content and activity. This is configurable from a global, down to a detailed level. |
| Database import |
Import your existing community's profile data directly into your microsite and notify your members. |
| Member pages |
Every member has a profile page where content and activity are displayed. Profile information selected for display can be configured by community and display choices can also be given to members. Additional profiling information not taken at the point of registration (or data import) can be gathered at any later stage to enable your community administrators to obtain a deeper demographic understanding of your communities. |
| Blogs |
Every account comes equipped with a personal blog. Specific blogs posts can be displayed on the main community page. |
| Opinions |
Community administrators can track your communities' opinion responses to understand their views and sentiments. Opinions are fully tagged and searchable. Additional supporting content such as web links, video clips and so on can be added to any opinions. Opinions can be categorised into topical areas and can be streamed to other web site via widgets. |
| Polls |
Community administrators can use polls to discover what your communities feel about hot topics and important issues. Photos, links and other resources can be added to enrich these community questions. |
| Surveys |
Community administrators can conduct online surveys of your communities to help members join conversations and measure the results in real-time. |
| Forum |
Community administrators can use forums to enable your communities to bond. Interest groups will easily form around a topic's discussion and subjects dealt within or around sections in the forum. Forum topic creation can be limited to community administrators or opened up to all members. |
| Photo Albums |
Upload photos and share them with the community. Organise photos into albums. |
| Structured topic categories |
All content can be structured into definable categories. |
| Comments |
Comments are a quick and easy way to interact with other members by leaving short notes. Users can leave messages and replies on most interactive features including opinions and polls. |
| Messaging |
Community administrators can send and receive messages with other members without giving out an email addresses. Messages also allow private communication between members. |
| Member Activity |
Community administrators can keep track of network activities and display these on your site. They can select the activities to be displayed in the activity panel and what to notify users about. |
| Featured Panels |
Community administrators can select content for special feature on the community home page, for example, highlighting particular members or opinions. |
| Groups |
Community administrators can enable community members to group themselves and their conversations into specialist interests or topics. |
| Account |
Every user has an area to personalise their experiences, settings and update their personal information. No personal information is shown to other members. |
| Access Control |
Comment provides business critical level management of access to data and content that enables your community administrators to limit access and activity from a global down to an individual level. |
| Widgets |
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Comment creates widgets from most of its features so that content can be embedded into third-party sites. For example a community poll could be placed on a member's own iGoogle page. Community administrators can use widgets to share your community’s content across the internet by embedding them into other web sites or your primary web site. |
| Dynamic word cloud (popular topics) |
Community administrators can analyse and display topics that are most actively discussed by their communities. |
| Advanced Search |
Comment provides easy-to-use searching for members and content. Community administrators can search for members using customised profiling. |
| User referral structure |
Comment provides community administrators with the ability to track introductions to your communities. |
| Points system – incentives, rewards system. |
Community administrators can promote and create a great social network through additional tools. Comment points systems may be used to enhance user status or create marketing campaigns. |
| My Friends/Contacts |
Members can develop a network of friends or contacts which enables them to manage their interactions with other community members. |
| Events |
Members can organize events and keep track of who is attending. |
| Resource Repository |
A location to store and share documents and other resources with the community. |
| Email |
An advanced email system enables community activity and event notification. Community administrators can invite new members to join communities and deliver targeted campaigns. All social tools such as opinions and surveys may be 'shared' with members by email. |
| Reporting Dashboard |
Centralised management of the community, reporting and analytics. |
| Analytics |
Community administrators can collect contextual data specific to their communities, their discussions and activities. Community administrators can analyse the results of opinions, surveys and other tools and see the demographic breakdown. |
| Data Report Export |
Community administrators can export the demographic, activity and results from their social network for internal reporting and campaign dissection. |
| Moderation |
Comprehensive management facilities allow configuration of levels of moderation: membership, group activity, content. |
| Advertising |
Comment provides community administrators with the option to add advertising panels across your sites. |
| Profanity check |
A profanity checker is included to warn about obscenities and other banned words. |
| Spelling check |
All content is subject to spelling checks at the point of input. |