What you get:
- Calendar
- Forum
- Contact list
- Free For < 100 members
Create a Private business community for you and your employees:
- The forum layout is great for brainstorming and keeping track of what is happening in the company
- Contact list and calendar
Features
Private communities
Need an employee-only community where you would like to keep things confidential? Have a product in private beta? Create a completely secure, private community. Send email invitations to people or give access to your whole company by email domain.
Branding & Design
Let your brand shine through and customize the look of your community to match your website.
Professionally designed themes
Get a modern, refreshing community design without writing a single line of code. Try on each of our professionally designed themes with a live preview. Select from a palette of colors to match your brand.
Add your logo
Add your logo or banner image, give your community a title, and customize the messaging throughout.
Customize your design
Need a completely customized design for your community? Our team will work with you to create a specialized design targeted to your needs. Know your way around CSS and want to do it your self? Get under the hood and apply your own styles.
Intuitive Experience
Starting your own community is an enjoyable, rewarding experience. We make it easy every step of the way, with no software to install and no technical experience required.
Quick & easy setup
Sign up takes less than a minute and your forums will be up and running right away. We lead you step by step through making your community your own. Help and access to our support team is just a click away if you need additional assistance.
No software to install
We host your community in the cloud, so there is no software to install, configure and maintain. Improvements to the system are immediately available, no need to go through an update process.
No experience necessary
We don't assume you are an expert in community management. Our interface provides the guidance you need, without technical jargon you don't.
Moderation
Easily manage communities and user activity in a dedicated area designed for community managers and moderators.
Stream of activity
Monitor the stream of user activity in real-time as it is happening across your entire community. See new topics and comments as they are posted across all forums and quickly spot postings that require your attention.
Filtering and sorting
Look across the whole community or specific forums. See what is new or view postings by the most likes, views, or replies.
Search across topics, replies, and users. Further narrow down your search results by category, status of a posting, or specific types such as questions, feedback, or discussions.
Highlight topics and comments
Pin important topics to the top of the category that you would like all visitors to see, such as important announcements or excellent community postings.
Full control over content
Moderators can edit or remove postings at any time and close discussions for comments.
Remove topics or comments that are duplicates, inappropriate, or spam. Access a full history of everything you have removed.
Accidentally removed a valid posting? Easily restore or edit anything you have previously deleted.
Member-driven moderation queues
Members help ensure the quality of content in the forum. Members can flag anything as offensive or inappropriate, and this content appears in your Flagged queue for review. You can decide to make edits to the posting, or remove it completely from the community.
Social Engagement
Vibrant engaged communities inspire loyal, passionate customers, drive traffic, reduce service costs, and accelerate innovation.
Easy to participate
Customers are more likely to engage when it's easy to participate. Sign up is quick with their Facebook account or email address. Members can ask questions, share feedback, start discussion topics, or leave comments. Members can vote on any posting to show support and to increase visibility of popular topics.
Rich tools for self-expression
Customers can share images, photos and videos. Postings can be formatted as rich text, youotube embeds and links. Exchanging technical information? Code snippets are formatted beautifully with syntax coloring and line numbers.
Member profiles
Personal profiles help members get to know each other and foster community building. Members customize their avatar. Profiles show link to users discussion and comments.
Email notifications
Email notifications drive customers back to the community to the topics they care about. Members have complete control over how they'd like to be notified.
Remove members
Whether it's an employee who is leaving or an unwanted member in your community, you can remove their account. Choose to keep their postings visible or completely remove all traces of their activity.
If you change your mind later you can always undo, restore a user and all of their content.
Mobile Forums
Your community is fully optimized for mobile devices. Members can interact wherever they are, no need to download an app.
All themes are mobile friendly
All themes are fully optimized for mobile, with built-in support for iOS, Android, and mobile web browsers. Your brand shines through consistently across all devices.
Full-featured mobile experience
Mobile members can ask questions, submit feedback, comment, search, follow topics, vote, and more. Responsive design optimizes the experience for the device, from the smartphone, to the tablet, to the desktop.
Mobile Moderation
Manage your community activity from anywhere. Access the full set of moderation tools on smart phones and tablets.
Moderation tools
Access the stream of activity, full search and filtering capability. Edit and remove postings, set status, pin, review flags, and more.
Dashboard
Get a visual overview of all key community activity with a map of recent visitors, activity charts, recent postings and more.
Security & Scalability
Rest soundly at night knowing that your data is secure and when your community goes viral, it will meet the demand.
SSL encryption
Built-in SSL encryption protects sensitive information including login, signup and account editing. Option to enable SSL-encryption for all pages in the community.
Private communities
Create a completely secure, private community. Send invitations to those you'd like to participate or give access to your whole company by email domain.