E-Community Manager

for Virtual Network Communities

The e-Community Manager provides a suite of tools for the Virtual Network Community:

Content Management

The content management toolkit enables you to keep your content smart, relevant and timely. Using a simple, web-based interface both you and your community members can manage and update content in only a number of minutes.

Membership Management

One of the keys to making e-communities a success is intelligent management of, and marketing to, your members. Using our membership management toolkit you can bring all your key membership administration processes online - we offer online registration, membership subscriptions and renewals, direct email marketing, newsletters and membership data exporting.

e-Commerce Management

Members will only buy online if the processes are secure, reliable and intuitive. As important is the need for your e-community to satisfy the business drivers of increasing revenue and streamlining costs. The comprehensive e-commerce management module helps you both increase revenue, using a web-based advertising management system and secure online subscription payment facility, and cut the costs and paperwork of business transactions, through integration with SAGE accounting systems, online event registration/ticket management and web based invoice management.

Site Structure Management

Site Structure Management gives the control to designing the structure of your own site. By this we mean the menu headings and the templates guiding how your pages look. Site Structure Management gives you ultimate flexibility in the managing the structure of your site.

Network of Networks

How can you benefit from the experience and content of other e-communities in your sector or geography? The Network of Networks is a 'one stop shop' for all the content created by our hosted e-communities, providing a fantastic PR opportunity for your community members and a valuable content resource for editors.

Benefits

• Sustain interest between events - by continually updating your website and by sending email newsletters and circulars

• Understand your membership better - by soliciting continual feedback

• Make your members more successful - by providing regular useful information, advice and connections direct to their desktop

• Create a voice - by having the potential to reach the entire internet audience

• Create a strong brand and focal point, and attract more members - websites can significantly enhance a brand

• Earn revenue - by collecting payment for online registration, events tickets, job advertisements and sponsorship advertising

• Manage your events more efficiently - using online event registration and ticketing

• Manage your business - basing your operation around a smart website can make you more efficient

• Save time and effort - by enabling your members to maintain a large part of your website content for you, providing you with interesting content to publish at no extra cost

• Market your company, its activities and vacancies - through profiles, press releases, events listings and job sections

• Access help and advice - by joining forums, asking questions, reading FAQs, looking up experts and knowing who can help

• Connect with strategic partners e.g. investors and experienced managers - by knowing who they are and submitting requests for partnership, by submitting business plans for review

• Save time and effort - by having it brought to you in the form of web links, research summaries, news summaries and event registrations

• Be alerted to useful information - by receiving email newsletters and circulars informing you about the latest news and events