Blogs
Get your community talking by setting everyone up with a blog -- complete with comments
and RSS feeds. No need for HTML lessons -- just use the built-in editor. Users can upload
attachments, images, and media -- even embed videos. It's as easy as copy and paste. As an
administrator, you're always in control.
Discussion Forums
Turn your community into a powerful, lead-attracting engine for your business with the
discussion forum and its SEO optimization features. Forums include all the goods -- fully
RSS-enabled topics, role-based permissions, custom email notifications, mark-reply-as-answer
features, moderation for all posts, quoting while replying, and the ability to mark topics
as "sticky" and as "closed."
User Profiles
Get personal with Walls, Status Updates, Photos, & All the Goods. Profiles make
it easy for people to get to know each other. Profiles can include such features as wall and status
updates, photo albums, friend lists, and video galleries. Post quick updates to your own wall or to
those of your friends.
News & Article Manager
Give your users their own voice by letting them post articles and
news under any number of categories. By generating content for the community, users increase
your visibility in search engine rankings. Users can also cross-reference articles when they post.
Spaces & groups
Why separate your employees by job title and department when the best stuff happens between
people with things in common? Spaces and groups let your users form unlimited sub-communities
around common topics without limitations.
Did you know 50% of people who view a video will respond to its call to action? Let users
upload and share their own photos and videos with anyone in the community -- through their
profile, blog, articles, or Wiki -- and watch your community take all the right actions.
Search & Tag
Post all the content you want -- without having to create topics and sub-topics.
The search feature keeps everything you need within reach. You can also tag content to make it finding
it even faster.
Document & file sharing
Keep your entire organization on the same page -- literally -- by uploading, sharing, and
tracking changes throughout a document's lifecycle.
Workflow
Create a customized, streamlined workflow that lets you moderate, approve, and publish any
kind of content both throughout the entire community and within each individual space.
Job board
Keep the band together with your own job board. The talent you need is often right
in front of you. Members can post and reply to job openings -- all without leaving your community.
Event Manager
Tired of tracking RSVPs? Now you can create events, invite others, and automatically accept
and track who's coming. No more logistical worries.
Wiki
Make collaboration a snap with the Wiki. Share collective knowledge and best practices.
Private Messaging System
Help users break free from email for good with a private messaging system. Bring entire
groups together with group chat -- yet another Communifire feature.
Friends List
Networking comes naturally with the friends list. Your users can find each other, friend
each other, and keep the conversation going for good.
Activity Stream & Wall
Discover recent content by following community, space, and user
updates with activity streams. Post updates to your wall where
users can have discussions in a micro-blog format.
Multi-Language Support
Support international users by translating your community
into any language you like. The built-in database localization
features allow you to extend your community to suit any number
of different cultures, regions, and languages.
Streamline communication between publishers and readers with the
W3C Validated RSS feeds. Users can opt-in to content of interest,
totally controlling the flow of information that they receive.
And they're available for just about anything you can imagine.
Moderation Capabilities for All Content
Don't worry about giving up control. Administrative features let you remove inappropriate
content and fully manage all blogs, blog posts, and other content.
User roles & permissioning
Create as many types of users as you like. You control who sees what. Set permissions at a
community level or a space level. You can also create finely-grained permissions at a content level.
Point System
Not all users were created equal. Now you can recognize and reward frequent contributors --
establishing experts and untapped talent with Communifire's point system. You can also ignite
participation with polls and ratings.
URL Mapping
Switching to Communifire from an existing website? Keep your search engine rankings.
Communifire lets you take them with you by mapping your old URLs to the new ones using dynamic redirects.
No need to build your community from scratch. Unlock the people you already know from such
online contact lists as Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail. Communifire lets you import
their information directly into the application for a ready-made community.
The Communifire API
Communifire is created with a N-tier enterprise-class SOA
architecture in .NET/C#. Tap into the fully documented API
and quickly develop custom features to deeply integrate the
application into your environment.
Email Template Management System
Make group emails a breeze. Use your own unique, template-based email system to create
and send customized emails to all or a selected set of members.
Unlimited members and users
Give an unlimited number of users their own profile, complete with a blog, the ability
to write articles, take part in discussions, and contribute content to the community.
Localization & time zones
Set your time zone settings to display all dates and times
relative to your own time zone. Stay on top of whats going on
in your community, no matter where
you're located.
CSS framework
Why should your brand suffer under someone else's look and feel? Communifire lets you easily customize your
entire community by adjusting a single style sheet.
Polls
What do users really want? Let them tell you by running polls. Our graphs and charts make it easy to visualize the results.
User analytics
Track user behavior on each page of your website so you can analyze how they're interacting -- and use what
you know to make their experience even better.
Social eCommerce & Online Store
Set up an online shop and sell your products and
services -- monetize your community. The Communifire eCommerce module
gives you a shopping cart, unlimited product and services,
unlimited categories, coupons & discounts, reviews and ratings,
and your own admin interface.
Customize it to integrate it into any payment provider you choose,
or use the build-in PayPal checkout options.
SEO optimization
Don't go looking for customers -- make it easy for them to find you. Communifire is SEO-optimized
right out of the box, with HTML layout and tags that invite search engines to index your content
fast. Keyword-rich URLs, customizable H1 tags, custom page titles, and custom meta descriptions
and keywords for your blog posts and other pages give you full control over each page's SEO.
Robust Error Handling and Logging System
Errors happen -- even to the most stable of applications. While we'll never be able to prevent
errors from happening entirely, we can control how your application responds to and recovers
from the error. Communifire's built-in framework logs the exception within code, along with
all the information our technical team needs to find, assess, and fix the error. After
informing your user of the error, the system logs it in the database. Our organized and well-documented source code means most errors are simple to fix.