May 5, 2008
The community portal has the potential to become a famous place on internet because of it’s broader and inclusive approach to community information. The geographical location of the community in the portal is especially important for finding like minded peoples.
The community portal markets the community broadly across a wide variety of interests. The portal has a dual purpose. One purpose is to inform the members within the community about current activities, groups, and interests. But the second, equally important activity is to let others, from outside the community, learn more about the community itself. The community portal is the way the rest of the world sees your community. So if you want your community to be seen as vibrant, attractive, and great place to live and to work, then the portal Web site must be of the highest quality to project that impression.
The community portal is also a tool for workforce development, with features like blogs, forums and chatting facilities where all users have ability to distribute posting privileges. Many members in the community have the opportunity to acquire new skills by using the community portal as an interactive, hands-on learning tool as members acquire these skills, their marketability in the workplace increases and the community becomes more attractive.
The new trends in community websites is adding photos, videos and blogs which make the community lively. The real time interaction through chatting makes the moments more satisfactory. 3gb is a website which contains lot of features like blog, photos, albums and chat. The web community sites are good places to share your ideas and have great fun.
The member plays an important role in making the portal, features like inviting friends through emails makes the members area busy. The members can outreach to neighbouring communities to promote the Community access concept and encourage others to develop interest in a particular area of his/her choice.
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Tags: chat, community, friends, Fun, portalApril 16, 2008
I have been browsing on internet for the last 10 years. During this period i came through tons of information in the shape of text, videos, audios and pictures. I love to read listen view and comment but always choosy. My choice to do above actions is limited to only professional websites which have neat and decent look along with features, i dont care about the age of website and even geographical location.
Developing a web community portal is really a big task. The developers or deigners of the portal have lot of aspects to cover under one umbrella. The audience of the website is borderless and have variety of issues to be take into account. (e.g) Some peoples love to read horoscope daily and expect the horospoe information on their desktop timely, it means while developing a portal the horoscope category should be develop and later on there must be daily updating by a professional astrologist. The same goes with sports weather etc.
Now a days there are alot of social community websites which share the peoples thought through rss blogs or forums but very little are successful in gaining the stickness of the viewer because the audience has right to judge and compare before becomes a member or regular user of the website community. Peoples love to visit those websites which really show the topics of their interest in a manner what they expect.
A feature-rich community portal with multiple ways to inform community members about what is happening in the community (e.g. community calendar, discussion forums, RSS feeds, blogs, automated reminders, etc.) has the potential to increase civic participation. Formal and information studies in Blacksburg, Virginia and in other communities with active community portals indicate that when residents have the right information at the right time, they tend to get more involved in the life of the community. In other words, they are more inclined to get out of the house and attend community meetings and to take part in community and civic activities.
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Tags: community, forums, portal, Technology