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SiteLife Groups

Engage users with easy group creation around focused topics

Communities within the community.

SiteLife Groups allow users and administrators to create and join focused sub-communities around specific interest areas. With integrated blogs, forums, events, video and photo galleries, and social networking tools, SiteLife Groups provides a more tightly-knit environment for users to connect, contribute and engage more deeply within your community. For site owners, SiteLife Groups enables viral promotion, more frequent interaction, and increased engagement—helping visitors find the right community content, and turning users into community leaders.

Key Features

Groups Home Page – Centralized activity page

SiteLife Groups' central activity area is a home page which provides a holistic picture of a group's activity, including:

Forum discussions
Blog posts
Comments
Photos
Videos
Upcoming events
Shared links
Group members

Groups Mini-Feed – Recent group activity snapshot

SiteLife Groups contain a mini-feed reflecting latest member contributions.

Rich presentation of most recent text and media contributions
Attribution back to group member
Chronological order highlights most recent contributions
Links back to originating galleries, blogs, and conversations

Integrated Social Networking – Multiple user-to-user connection opportunities

SiteLife Groups provide a range of integrated social networking features, including:

Moderated discussions
Integrated multi-author blogs
Comments throughout group experience
Membership badges
Member activity highlights

Notifications & Invitations – Increasing community promotion & engagement

SiteLife Groups includes multiple features designed to bring users back to the community as often as possible.

Mini-feed notifications
RSS feeds
New member invitations via e-mail
Group participation reflected in SiteLife Personas
Group activity reflected in Discovery widgets

Membership Access – Multiple advanced membership settings

SiteLife Groups provides the ability for users or site administrators to assign certain public/private membership privileges to groups:

Publicly viewable groups anyone can join
Private groups with advanced membership settings
Optional registration requirements for posting content
Full administrative control over content rights
Full administrative control over groups access

Events – Event scheduling around site-relevant activities and topics

SiteLife Groups include a built-in Events function that allows users to engage around enterprise-relevant activities.

Real events
Virtual events
Includes user-created or admin-created events
Upcoming event highlights
User host attribution

Integrated Discovery – Promoting group activity

SiteLife Groups power integrated discovery of groups throughout the site.

Group directory
Group search
"Most Popular Groups"
"Most Active Groups"
"Most Active Group Users"

Integrated Ratings – User-powered evaluations

SiteLife Groups can be integrated with SiteLife's ratings capabilities to deliver users the ability to submit ratings on group content.

Default 5-star scale
Customizable multi-metric scale based on specific business objectives
Enables discovery, i.e. "Highest Rated"
Facilitates user-to-user connections
Surfaces the site's most popular content, products and services

Integrated Recommendations – User-powered endorsements

SiteLife Groups can be integrated with SiteLife's recommendation capabilities to deliver users the ability to provide one-click endorsements on group content.