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If you’re shopping around for an online community platform for your organization, you must explore your options. Here are a few you might not know about, but that deserve your attention. Listed alphabetically:
- Evoq Social: This eye-pleasing, full-featured community platform is built on top of Dot Net Nuke, one of the world’s most advanced Content Management Systems. Not only do you get a community platform, you get a best-in-class CMS offering seamless transitions between community and website, all at an alarmingly low price.
- Groupsite: Offering quite possibly the most intuitive user interface we’ve come across, Groupsite stands out with their no-nonsense online community platform, tenaciously focused on the user experience. We’re ga-ga for their 99% rule: 99% of features must be usable by 99% of users without instructions.
- Pathable: This online community platform is best known for supporting community around in-person events, but increasingly, clients are creating year-round communities. We especially like Pathable’s messaging engine, boasting advanced features like scheduling, merging of member information, and link tokening.
- Small World Labs: An enterprise class online community platform that — for all the power under the hood — is as easy for community administrators to use as it is for end-users. Groundbreaking feature: Workflows, which automates many routine community tasks, enabling your staff to focus on higher-impact tasks.
- YourMembership.com: It’s as if a full-featured Association Management System and community platform got together and lived happily ever after. This is the tightest integration between online community platform and AMS that we’ve encountered, offering a best-in-class social CRM solution for even small associations.
In the coming weeks, we’ll release a comprehensive Online Community Software Selection Guide. Within its pages, you’ll learn much more about these vendors, who helped offset the cost of producing the guide, and others. Click here to reserve your copy.