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DMC for Community

As the Internet grows and changes its role in everyday life and business changes as well. Once it might have been a tool for "getting a message out" or convenient home-shopping tool, but now it is much more. It is the key to building relationships and two-way interaction with the people you are trying to serve.

Are you part of an industry body that wants to help its members come together?

Maybe you have a social group that could be a little more social?

Perhaps you are a PR manager with a multi-million dollar movie launch and you want to engage more closely with expectant movie-goers, allow them to more fully buy into your property...

The Community Core

The Digital Media Core provides any organisation — commercial, not-for-profit, social or professional — all of the tools it needs to support a vibrant and vocal community. Our modules scale from providing a basic no-nonsense skeleton including a front page with some text and pictures to a full social networking site aimed at forward-thinking and tech-savvy users who need relationship management and collaboration tools for its members.

The Community Core offers:

  • A Front-end that is easily configured, offers all of the usual presentation and basic article options, plus links all of the following with a single sign-on.
  • A Back-end that is stable, offers easy to understand statistics and is easily accessed and secure.
  • Social networking — which includes relationship management (being able to set friends and control access to user profiles, and track individual user's posts) and encourages user participation.
  • Forums and discussion groups — to discuss the issues that matter to your community.
  • Wiki — allowing users to create a central base of knowledge in a collaborative manner. Could your association use a body of educational members’ “case studies” or does your social group just want to workshop a proposal together? Maybe your movie fans want to update a list of all news and gossip. Wiki is the way.
  • News aggregator — allowing readers to submit or vote articles up or down according to their relevance.
  • Directories — allowing you to build a catalogue of contacts, articles, news feed ideas or links.
  • Blogs — allowing key members of staff or the community to have a central point to collect articles and receive feedback. Blogs not only give individuals a more distinct voice, they also act as a focal point for discussions and a logical way to track conversations.
  • User profiles

Community Building

The staff at Binary Culture have experienced community building from many angles, working for traditional publishing companies, digital content companies and even launching a community website.

If you click through to http://www.aussieinnovation.com you can see an ever-growing example of an implementation of our Community Core.

A live and expanding site will always present certain challenges, but a fully-modular and scalable system like our Community Core is designed to offer the flexibility required to meet the needs of any community no matter how it evolves. From community site to web-2.0 social network and beyond, we have the core to build whatever your company or community requires.