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Give your constituents a voice (and bring your Web site to life) with BSD's community tools.
 

CommunityOur online community tools set the standard for constituent engagement and participatory content. This powerful suite of community content generation and social networking tools facilitate a range of real-time person-to-person activities, from user profiles to blogs to online forums, that will leave your site visitors with the feeling that your online community is richly alive with content and commitment.

User profiles, photo galleries, and other social incentives

With the BSD tools, you can give each of your constituents an online presence. User profiles, photo galleries, even user blogs all come standard with the BSD tools. So your most active users can encourage each other to post, participate, and get more deeply involved -- and your organization reaps the benefits of deeper user commitment.

Fully functional points-driven social networking

With our social points system, your users accumulate community karma by participating online. You can manage the point incentives to ensure that as many users as possible get involved and stay involved, taking actions that will help move you toward policy targets or online content goals.

Groups that bring people together

A rich group network is one of the most compelling ways you can telegraph to potential supporters that your Web site is alive and your community is worth joining. Set up user groups around issues, geographies, or other criteria -- or let your users set up their own groups around criteria that they define. Group participants and leaders can post content on group pages, communicate via listservs, host events, and build relationships -- online and in the real world -- that help your organization advance its goals.

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Launch user groups along issue or geographic lines




Let users create and manage their own user groups




Schedule, manage, and promote events




Motivate members with our social points system




Manage the point system to encourage actions that matter




Review and override user content when necessary




Target campaigns and programs to interested and motivated groups



 
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