How It Works
Community Life is designed to meet the unique needs of organizations that wish to tap into the power of social networking but on their own terms. By putting a Community Life button at your website, you can leverage the power of your brand and your most natural relationships, and at the same time take advantage of today’s most sophisticated social networking platforms. With every step your users take, the community experience grows and empowered members begin to grow your organization for you - from the bottom up.
Step 1 - Connect
It's really quite simple. From the very first click, people get to select from a menu list of social networks that reflect the vision and values of your orgnanization for building community life. This list of social networks that you define help people connect and build relationships around the things you want to encourage. These communities can be publicly accessible or by invitation only depending on their nature.
When people select a community they're interested in, they are able to view the front page of that community's website. On this page, you can post whatever information you wish to make available to the general public.
Step 2 - Communicate
For most websites, the experience stops there – with people simply looking at information on a page. But with Community Life, it's only the beginning.
As people look at the communities you choose to list at your website, you are able to give them the opportunity to actually sign up. When signing up, what’s good for your users is also good for you. Each time someone signs up, it’s an event that gives your organization the opportunity to ask whatever information you need or want for servicing people and their selections. It’s also an event where people can choose to make some of their information public to others. Whether it's their profile picture for putting a face to a name or sharing something about themselves to encourage interactions, these signups give your organization insights into the lives of the people you care about most.
What goes around comes around. The minute people sign up to a community, the benefits to them are immediate and rewarding. Every type of communication medium imaginable is available to you for growing your organization's community life - discussion venues, blogs, comment pages, messaging, file management, groups, photo / mp3 / video sharing, rss, chat and more.
Step 3 – Build Community
Community Life brings the power of social networking to your website. Not only can you communicate to people, but people can communicate to you and to one another. To get right down to it, you can think of Community Life as a social networking manager. By subscribing to the Community Life button, you are able to list whatever social networks you wish to feature and continuously direct traffic to those communities most in line with your organization's vision and values.
Among the many features available to you and your users, perhaps none other is more important to the growth of your organization than those than enable your communities to take on a life of their own. By choosing the types of communities you make available, designating those authorized to manage its members, and determining what community building features to include - you are able to encourage relationship building in ways that advance the goals of your organization for you. Think of it. People sign up to the same interest, easily connect with each other and others a part of their every day life - naturally inviting others into the community. Your members grow your organization with those normally outside of your reach but within theirs', enabling your organization to go beyond the four walls...becoming truly 24x7.
More than just serving as a social network manager, Community Life takes it one step further. We bundle unparalleled social networking capabilities along with unprecedented coaching services, so as to ensure the success of your community building efforts. Every subscription includes community building coaches who will work with you in your implementation of the technology, minimizing the risks to your brand while maximizing the potential for your organization. You are never left to figure things out on your own. Much more than just a button at your website, Community Life gives you a community building team who are committed to your success.
Summarizing the Experience
It’s all about community life, and more important, it’s all about bringing your communities to life. Like most organizations, you already have them. Now, Community Life gives you the solution you need to help them flourish. Like never before you’ll get to see the power of your organization as expressed in its people - totally released, fully empowered, and passionately envisioned to do the things you dreamed of but didn’t know how to make happen…until now.