Xsdot Community services (web 2.0)

A web community is a site or group of sites that virtual represents a community. A web community often looks like an internet forum, a group of blogs, a social network service or another type of social web service.

Use Xsdot’s community components for architecting private and public blogs, forums, guest books, news feeds, chats and more. All Xsdot community components are compatible, re-usable and combinable to create your specific community applications.

All Xsdot community services seamlessly integrate with other Xsdot services like, eMailing, Content management and eCommerce services (See Xsdot full component list for more information).

Forums

A web forum or message board is an online community site. It originated from a traditional bulletin board. Forums or boards are web based applications that manage visitor or board member generated content (Articles, messages, etc.). People participating in an web forum cultivate social bonds and interests for specific topics.

Blogs

A blog is a type of website or web service that is usually maintained by an individual or group (company, foundation, association, etc.) with regular entries of commentary, descriptions, events, or other media like graphics or videos.

Community services & components

• Community messaging container
  A community messaging container is a space for placing community messages that can be presented for example as blogs, forums,...

• Community message editor
  The message editor is used for creating editors that enable members or visitors to place articles, messages or respond to...

• Community search
  Enables a member or visitor to search community message containers like blogs, forums, news feeds, guest books, etc.

• Community message view
  With a community view, an application administrator can display a specific selection of messages and articles in a content site...

• Community member list
  The community user list contains several functions depending on the selected designed template. It present a list of members...

• Community member details
  This component shows member details in a specified design definition. It presents items like name, date joined, number of votes,...

• Community tag view
  Show a list of tags depending on the selected filters (most used tags, most viewed tags, most searched tags, etc.). Tags are...

• Community voting
  When enabled, visitors or community members can vote on messages and articles. Voting on a message increases or decreases the...

• Community root
  This component is used for defining a community root of interest. A community root can contain community categories which can...

• Community category
  This component is used for defining a community category of interest. A community category can contain community messaging...

• Community user group
  A user group component has been implemented for the storage of large groups of users. User groups are mainly used for web sites,...

• Community member settings
  With the ‘User settings’ service, members of a user group can manage their own settings when implemented.

• Community logon indicator / Quick...
  With this component an application designer can implement a quick logon system or it can be used as an logon indicator.

• Community who is online service
  A module that displays the currently online members in an application or user group. The shown members can link to other...

• Community RSS Feed
  RSS (’Really Simple Syndication’ or ’Rich Site Summary’) is a family of web feed formats used to publish...

• Live Chat component
  The Xsdot Live Chat service enables administrators to place chat windows or live chat lists in the form of a (for example) blog...

• Content reader & post robot
  The content reader robot can read content from other sites and place them in local sites or applications in the form of community...