Our portal directory services provide the infrastructure and communication services upon which any type of community can be built. Although online communities may differ significantly in purpose and content, they are all based on the same basic concepts and require the same infrastructure and services. Therefore, we have designed the portal directory technology to be configurable so that communities of all shapes and sizes can be created with minimal effort. Each community consists of individual members and various types of groups and organizations. People join the community and then create and join groups inside the community.

To enable people and organizations to freely connect and communicate, our portal directory technology was designed to satisfy a simple principle:

"The community must be able to be built and managed by itself without the need for Web designers and developers to manage the content or communications within the community."

From this principle, a number of design goals followed:

• The community must consist of individual community members and not just businesses and groups. And, the businesses and groups consist of and are built by the community members; identical to that of real-world communities.
• Community members must be able to control access to the published content, services, and members of the groups they create.
• Community members must be capable of taking on various roles such as leaders, members, and administrators within the groups that they create.
• Information must flow through the community using a "Publish and Subscribe" model so that the members can control the information that they receive from the community.
• An easy-to-use user interface must be provided to allow community members to build and manage their community, add content, and communicate without the need to know HTML.

For a description of the features offered by CommunityNet, refer to the features brochure located under Company Publications or step through our short online demonstration.

People – a place to go to share information and communicate with other local people, businesses, and organizations.

Businesses – an affordable Web solution with built-in communication features that will put your business in front of the local market and allow it to communicate with its customers, employees, and affiliates.

Non-Profit Organizations – a NO cost Web solution for communicating and sharing information with organization members and the local community.

Partners –  use their own branded portal into the community to attract and keep local people coming back to their Web site.  Partners also provide services to the online community that others are helping to build.

Refer to our Company Publications for brochures describing how your local online community can benefit you.