Network54.com - Free Community Applications

Planning to create an online community? Want to incorporate message boards or forums to your website? Network54 provides community applications that website owners can incorporate into their sites. With Network54 creating an online community is really easy. You can create your own blogs, weblogs, forums, message boards, chatrooms, votelets and other community resources, and integrate them with your existing website. You can increase customer satisfaction by establishing a forum for customer support, self-help and feedback, use chat rooms to sponsor live events that help attract new customers and members. You can also post votelets to conduct spontaneous opinion polls that help shape the direction of your business or its product development. But you don’t have to be a commercial business to take advantage of what Network54 offers. In fact, Network54 provides you features found in larger, harder to use solutions. You can use Network54 to mobilize local community action groups, start forums that help your non-profit reach out to local aid and conduct opinion polls that help support your position.

“Network54 is a Community Application Service Provider. We provide hosted applications that web site owners incorporate into their sites to help them create and foster a topical Internet community. To us, "topical Internet community" is the formation and benefit of interpersonal relationships that are created by people who share common interests, ideals, and goals. You provide the topic and we provide the communications tools to build the relationships.”

Network54 is tapping the huge online community market, which is still growing. Today, millions of users interact using community tools on websites, web blogs, internet newsgroups, instant messaging and many other technologies. Website owners are increasingly enabling a two-way communication. Network54 tools allow you to do this easily and quickly.

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