High-value Communities
Build and monetise high-value online communities
Since time immemorial human beings have formed groups and associations of like-minded people, whether for work or pleasure – after all, we are social creatures at heart. And in recent years the Web has energised the networking space, radically speeding up the process of group formation and enabling richer interactions between members.The Web also presents new opportunities to monetise communities, whether the objective is to cover costs or to generate a profit.
Social business models are fast becoming mainstream and Mvine is at the forefront of this revolution, already powering a wide range of successful high-value communities including:
- Music Balloon, a music fan community
- Business networking and knowledge-sharing groups, such as Knowledge Peers and Theme Research
- Professional associations and alumni clubs, including the Company of Information Technologists and the University of Newcastle
The Mvine platform can provide everything that such a community needs to run its day-to-day operations, including:
- Support for one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many models
- User profiles, rich user directories and search
- Define user groups and configure privacy options, using rich provisioning tools including a role-based permissions framework
- Integrated payment services currently including PayPal, CreditCall, DataCash and Barclays, and with links to credit and fraud agencies
- A full set of secure collaboration and communication tools including messaging, forums, comments, video conferencing, IP telephony, blogs and more
- Events management with user-centric calendars
- Digital asset management for documents, video, audio and more, with rich taxonomies to enhance search
- Access via mobile devices including iPhone, Android and iPad
- Integration with public social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.