Online Design Bureau releases Community Builder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DALLAS, TX MAR 1, 2010 Online Design Bureau releases Community Builder for its websites. Community Builder allows website owners to create a community on their website. The Community integrates with other social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and allows your users to create profiles and engage with other members on your site. This feature has been in beta for existing clients since Feb 1 2010 and is now released for the world.

Creating communities is at the heart of Web 3.0. It adds stickiness to the website as users are incentivised to keep returning to the site to connect with friends, post updates and engage with rich content.

Features

Community with strong brand identity

The community is controlled through external CSS files and can be styled with the client logo and house themes.

Members can showcase their personalities and interests and connect to other members of your website.

Automated activity or life streams

All activity by your visitors can be neatly presented on their profile page. Community members will not only be able to create their own profiles, but their activity on your website or on social networks like Twitter will be neatly displayed on your profile. Community members will have the option to choose to keep what information and what activities private or not.

Connect with friends

Chatting amongst friends is central in any community. Members will be able to add friends and send private messages or interact in forums.

Because the activity stream allow each user a peak into their communications across the community, plenty of reasons and opportunities for communication are created daily.

Allows members to create groups and manage them

Users will be able to create special interest groups and manage them with ease. They can choose to share their group with the world or keep it private.

Groups add an added interest in the community and can concentrate conversations for those users who want to deal with the clutter large communities can create.

Share photos

Members can create photo albums to share with friends. Other features are: the ability to comment on photos, and as an admin, delete the community photos that are deemed inappropriate.

The system gives site owners full control over their on-site community through an intuitive interface.

Media Support

Supports Youtube, Vimeo, and more on community user Walls.

Integrates with Twitter and Facebook. By adding media support, the community builder expands this integration to Video sharing sites.

The application follows the design philosophy of Online Design Bureau: keep costs down by enabling users to update content and images with great ease and making use of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies to offer the end user spectacular functionality at no cost to the website owner.

About Online Design Bureau

To learn more about Online Design Bureau, call (214) 302-7631 or visit their website at http://onlinedesignbureau.com

Online Design Bureau is a Dallas, TX based web design agency that specializes in offering dynamic websites for Small to Medium Businesses in the US. Online Design Bureau offers websites that businesses can edit themselves in a simple text editor, and offers integrated sales tools in the form of a CRM that captures sales leads from the website and funnels them to an automated marketing and sales process.