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Build A Social Media Site Today

Create A Feature Packed Social Network For Your Community Today! Be the social Media!

Create your own social community using the eCity Social Media Platform. You can add a community to your existing web site or a standalone web 2.0 application. You can create online networking communities for small groups like school, class, regional groups. It can also be for professional networking or romantic networks. By allowing your users to network with their family and friends, you are allowing viral traffic to your site.

Social Community Applications

Today we see that a large number of community networks become more popular day by day like orkut, myspace, LinkedIn, friendster, facebook etc. Most of them have millions of users. The popularity of these social applications rely on the networking power of communities. Content created by these communities are significant asset which can be monetized through advertisements. You can clone their success. Now eCity offers you a powerful solution to create a social networking site. Start your revenue generating social networking portal today.

The eCity Social Media Platform is a social networking portal software with a wide range of functionalities. It is highly user-friendly and graphic intensive allowing you to build a widespread network of contacts. eCity Community Builder has a large number of features and tools like Multilevel Administration, Friends Management, Invite Contacts, Internal Messaging, Blog, Chat, Discussion Boards, Contact Groups, Gift Shop, Powerful Search, Event Management, Classified, etc

You get all the latest social networking features as standard on the eCity Social Media Platform- all managed and configured through your Admin Center. You're free to add more features at any time by visiting our addon Store, which we're adding to all the time.

Community Features

All of our communities include the following which are selectable on purchase:

Customizable Profiles - Members can customize thier own profiles
Membership - Admin can charge members a fee for access
Forums - Members can have discussions
Photos -Members can upload photos
Videos - Members can upload videos
Sounds - members can upload audio such as music
Classifieds - Members can list items for sale
Groups - Members ca create specailty groups
Audio/Video chat - members can chat while seeing each other
File Sharing - Members can share Files
Events - Members can create events
Store - Members can sell and purchase items in the store
News - Members can read about news affecting your site
Articles - Admin can post articles
Blogs - Members can create their own blogs
Polls - members can create mini surveys
Sites - Members can add links to other interesting sites
Boards - Members can cocreate images and diagrams using the white board

These are examples from some of the community sites we have created.

Groups

Within your network, people with similar interests and objectives may want their own space.
These sub-groups can be public or invitation-only and members are able to message one another directly, creating a real sense of involvement and personal ownership.

Public or private sub-groups can be created by members
Members can share photos, videos and discussions within groups
Mass messages can be sent to members

Events

Your network can be an excellent platform for organizing and promoting events. Members and sub-groups have the option of making an event public or private. People can then mark their attendance, write on the wall and upload photos. As network owner, you have the right to moderate the creation of new events.

Events can be private or public.
The creation of new events can be moderated by the network owner
Sub-groups on the network can create their own events for their members

Text and Video Chat

A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a million. How about a live video talk along with simultaneous formatted and smilies-powered text chat? Today's users are ready for this technology and your site should be ready, too. Video messenger supports rich text formatting and animated emoticons; file transfers and talk logs; custom skinning; and a fully resizable interface.

Video chats can be started with high-quality webcam support
Video Phone is also available in our add ons

Forums

Your members can debate hot topics in specially created forums and post video and photos as part of their replies. Participants are notified of any new responses by email. What's more, groups are able to keep their own forums private.

Participants can follow discussion topics, receiving email alerts when someone responds
Groups can have their own private forums within them
Members can embed YouTube videos and photos into their responses

Articles and Blogs

Articlesand Blogs are a great way of encouraging participation in the network, so you may choose to have articles and blogs on your home page. Members can, however, simply choose to post blog entries to their own profile page, complete with any photos, videos, content from YouTube and so on.

Every member gets their own blog
Members can embed videos and photos into their blogs or articles
Members can record video comments

Video Sharing

It’s Web 2.0 - get it? It’s all about Video, Video, Video! Don’t miss the buzz - turn on video sharing. The eCity Community Builder comes packed with video recorder, converter and video player. Your members can upload videos and share them, or record instantly from their webcams.

Members can create Video albums
Members can embed videos or upload them and have them encoded by us in minutes
You can choose to moderate all media before it goes live on the network

Photo Sharing

eCity Community Builder can display original photos that your members upload. Members can upload to multiple public or private albums, but as network owner, you can choose to moderate all media before it goes live.

Members can add photos to multiple public or private albums
You can choose to moderate all media before it goes live on the network

Integration

With our Facebook / Twitter add on Members can control facebook and twitter from your community.

Classifieds

The Classifieds module is standard in all communities. Imagine having your own cragilist on your site.

Members can create listings
Members can browse listings
You can choose to moderate all media before it goes live on the network

TV Community

With our TV add on you can create your own TV broadcasting commuinity

Sell memberships which include members only channels
Members can embed you tube videos
Members can broadcast live

Business Directory

With our Business Directory add on you can create your own yellow pages for your members .

Members can create their own listing
Members can view listing

- Addons For Your Social Media Platform
  
  Add ons for the Community Builder can be purchased from our store:
  - TV - Create a TV Broadcasting Community
  - Business Directory -Create your own yellow pages
  - Real Estate Basic - Feature Property for sale or lease
  - Real Estate Advanced -Feature property for sale or lease and Locatins near by
  - Twitter / Facebook - Let your members
  - Games - Let your members play games
  - Places - Map locations
  - Super Events - Maps to event locations
  - Super Classifieds - Maps and more
  - Super Articles - Let your members contribute to the communities content
  - Webinar - Let your members have virtual meetings and presentations
  - Destination - Share your vacation spots
  - Answers - Just like yahoo answers
  - Points, Referrals, and Rewards - let your members accumulate points by referiing new members and exchange the points for rewards
- Types of Communities
  
  eCity can create any community you want, for example:
  We lease the following preconfigured turnkey communities with custom design and add ons:
  - Medical Community
  - Dating Community
  - Networking Community
  - Gamers Community
  - City Portal
  - Home Owners Portal
  - Real Estate Portal

Social Media Builder Prices and Plans

	Shared Community (1 profile type)	Shared Community (10 Profile types)	Dedicated Community (1 profile type)	Dedicated Community (10 Profile types)
Hosting Space	50 GB	50 GB	500 GB	500 GB
Bandwith	200 GB	200 GB	2000 GB	2000 GB
Custom Design	Included	Included	Included	Included
Audio/Video Chat	Included	Included	Included	Included
Member Billing	Included	Included	Included	Included
Business Cards	5000 per year (after 3 months of service)	5000 per year (after 3 months of service)	5000 per year (after 3 months of service)	5000 per year (after 3 months of service)
Post Cards	1000 per year (after 6 months of service)	1000 per year (after 6 months of service)	1000 per year (after 6 months of service)	1000 per year (after 6 months of service)
	Shared Community (1 profile type)	Shared Community (10 Profile types)	Dedicated Community (1 profile type)	Dedicated Community (10 Profile types)
Price	Set up: $200.00 Monthly: $125.00	Set up: $500.00 Monthly: $125.00	Set up: $200.00 Monthly: $300.00	Set up: $500.00 Monthly: $300.00