Community Web Details

Community Websites and Social Networking Solutions from Akira

OK, we know you're here to see the features of our social networks sites and online community networks, so here's some techie information -n non-techie language (mostly!).

Social Network Privacy

Our community websites are as a secure and private as you, the administrator wish to make them. In addition, your website can offer data security control to your members too. For example, your members may just want to post something private for their closest friends only.

If your members do want to keep things for themselves, others won't be able to view it, so what they deem private, stays private! This applies to all private group activities as well, as private groups also stay private!

Community Groups

The Groups feature allow like-minded members within your community to build their own mini-communities, made up of members who share the same interests. For example, your sports club community website may cover events by both senior and junior teams, each of whom can have their own sub-group, so the adults don't see information on junior practice times, and vice versa. Group function features include the ability to:

Create and join groups.
Create group discussion
Post on group walls
Group owner can publish news bulletin
Administrator can control group membership and access
Subscribe to group activity streams

Media Sharing Video and Photos

Media sharing is one of the most popular activities in social networking. That's why having interactive photo & video galleries in your community is so crucial to its success. Everyone loves to seethe sports team pictured with their newly-acquired trophy, footage of the latest event or cheque presentation ceremony. Akira's powerful community social network websites enable anyone (with the right level of permission) to post great content with just a click of the mouse:

Embed videos from 3rd party video sharing sites such as You Tube
Share videos, photos, group bulletins and discussions with all the major social bookmarking services as well as social networks
Create, comment on & share interactive photo galleries with online friends
Community members can "tag" their friends in any of their photos
Site admin can 'feature' any user, photo or video across the entire community to give it a little more exposure
Admin users have total control over what what stays and what goes and can easily delete suggestive or copyrighted material.

Blogs

Blogs are a good way to keep new visitors coming back to your site for more! Your members can have their very own blogs, post entries directly from their profile pages, and share those blog posts with friends. It's a fabulous way to give a picture of what your community is doing, and breathes life into your web pages 24/7.

Private Messaging

You can keep your members on your community site LONGER if they can message their friends directly from your community, instead of using email. With Private Messaging, your members can send a private message to anyone within the community, anytime.

Customisable User Fields

Want an easy way for your members to find new friends with similar interests? Profile field matching is the answer. As an administrator, you can add any number of custom profile fields for your members to fill out. With our flexible online community solutions, fields such as location, gender, interests, hobbies, etc, can all be added and set to be “required" - or not! These customized profile fields make it easy to search for and link members to one another based on age, hometown, interests, skills, or whatever you wish.

Activity Stream & Live Chat

Be in the loop! Don't be the last one to know about a birthday or a wedding - find out what your members and friends are up to. Within your secure community site, you can:

Keep up to date on what is happening within your social circle
Subscribe to the activity stream via rss feed
Find out what other people are talking about
Chat online using Live Chat (OK, it's actually live type, but that means you can do it in your pyjamas!)

Advanced activity stream previews ensure site administrators can also hide unwanted activity from being shown - not everyone wants to know that you're washing the team football kit…

Amazon S3 Storage Support

Utilize one of world's cheapest cloud storage solutions to host your photos and videos for your community network website. Amazon's S3 storage is "highly scalable, reliable, fast and inexpensive data storage infrastructure - the same infrastructure Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites!" With Amazon S3 integration, your site can easily handle traffic spikes and your visitors can experience a fast-loading community, no matter where they are in the world.

Where can I see your virtual community solution in action?
Take a look at our demo site at www.yaddaboard.com.