Features
Our brandstation platform provides a full range of the interactive features you will need to create an engaging online social network community.
Our technology is scalable to cope with your network's expansion; you can start with a small number of users and develop into a multi-group arena. While our on-demand brandstation comes equipped with standard core social network solutions, we also offer premium features and services that can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
Blogs; Members can post user-generated interactive content such as commentaries, photos and videos that are automatically archived to help you keep organised.
Forums; Host online discussions and post user-generated content to facilitate the exchange of and compare news, views, facts and queries.
Content Rating; Members can rate individual content. Ratings can then be used to auto-sort content and generate recommendations.
RSS feeds - Live news and events updated automatically on sites.
Videos - Live TV streams, Video on demand or playlists can be added and managed easily. All major video formats.
Events; Set up events to invite and involve team members. When an event is created, an Outlook-compatible calendar file is emailed to invited users.
File Sharing; Team collaboration is faster and simpler when you can access shared files, word documents and wiki pages. Download for editing in your own time or edit wiki pages live online.
Bookmarks; Users can add, edit, share and search bookmarks of web pages with the help of tags.
Search; Provides a comprehensive search of your site with search results displayed by categories such as blogs, videos or forums etc. An advanced search can be used to filter results to only show results from specific components.
Tag Cloud; Make it easy for users to find the information they seek by grouping related words together and adding links to content. Users can click on any word in the tag cloud and view the tagged content displayed in the search results.
User status; Lets others know what you are doing right now, whether you're in a meeting or out of the office.
User Personalised Profile; An advanced editor is lets members tell others about themselves, their roles, responsibilities and interests. Users can also change their profile image, user tags and passwords.
User Activity Ratings; Encourage member participation by highlighting the most active members.
User Preferences; lets you choose when you want to get team activity notifications.
User Network; Shows your friends and teams you've joined. You can send friend requests and accept or decline connection invitations from other users.
Friends; Add, invite, accept, decline, remove, show online / offline status. You also get activity updates from friends.
Teams; Members can create or join groups for collaboration. Each team has its own blog and files are shared by the team. You can also create private teams only visible to invited members.
Site; Site owners can manage all aspects from member profiles to more complex content such as managing blogs, forums, events, teams, videos, RSS feeds, design templates, login rules, email alerts, hosting requirements and site configuration.
Forgotten Password; Emailed to members. Only validated accounts are allowed. Strict validation of all fields.
User Log In and Password; All member passwords are encrypted on login. All passwords are encrypted in the database. A optional CAPTCHA code can be used to further validate member login and for even more security SSL encryption can be also be added to the login.
Closed / Open Network; Set up your brandstation as an open or closed social network.
Widgets; Third party widgets, gadgets and applications can be seamlessly added to single or multiple brandstation sites.
Technical
Cross-browser support.
Reporting; On-site reporting provides key figures that track user activity providing insight into site engagement.
Content management access control; Allows multiple administrators to be assigned with access to manage specific components. As a site owner, you decide who can be an admin member and who can manage different site sections.
CSS Style Design Templates can be customised.
Microsoft Gold Partner development team offers second-to-none technical support.
Regular performance and load testing.
Highly fault-tolerant ultra-secure architecture.
No need to download, install or run any software.
Free version upgrades to all brandstation on-demand price plans.
API Access; Allow third party web application development and control (e.g. Video conferencing, Editable Documents, Spreadsheets, Wikis, Google Docs integration and so on).
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