Benefits

Build your site and community elements in minutes!

Often times, those individuals responsible for a site's content and creative look-and-feel, don't always have the time or technical skill-set to build a site with complex code and styling elements. For this set of users, eCrowds allows you to quickly build a site visually, by dragging and dropping content and styling elements into place. On the contrary, if you have a tech-savvy team, or are interested in tying in more complex style elements, eCrowds allows for this as well.

Tying together disparate ideas/facilitating collective wisdom

The eCrowds platform gives life to a static site, acting as the glue that relates and ties pieces of your site's information and wisdom together. Providing a means for communities to tag content and make it more relevant, comment on and raise awareness of different issues, and collaborate together, will energize these crowds and allow detached site elements and resources to come together.

Fostering a collaborative space for your community to interact

With eCrowds, your organization can harness the energy of its community, aggregate content, and streamline organizational information and communication with one application. Instead of letting your crowd's knowledge and energy go to waste via contributions to unaffiliated and outside sites, reign this collective wisdom in with a platform that provides a communal space for your organization and its members to exchange ideas, interact, and grow.

Creation of a collective voice/insight into community needs, ideas, concerns

Using the the eCrowds social networking platform will provide your users and community with the tools they need to truly make their voice heard. The ability to express ideas and opinions, have them heard (and commented, rated on, and tagged) by members of the community is an inherent incentive to participate. The wisdom and insight of the crowd is more powerful than that of the individual, and if your users feel like they have an easy way to express their voice to many, there's no reason not to participate.

Real-time sharing of ideas, communications, and content creation & publication

Real-time communication has obvious benefits in terms of time-saving efficiencies. However, the real-time communication capabilities provided with eCrowds have multiple other benefits as well. Don't deter your users from community participation by making them deal with the extra hassle of waiting for responses and feedback. The eCrowds Social networking suite makes collaboration and communication instant, thereby improving use rates and interest. Additionally, dependent upon the nature of your business, eCrowds' real-time collaboration functionality can have cost-saving benefits as well. Time sensitive information, alerts, and content can be managed in real-time, feedback and/or approval on content or ideas can be expressed immediately and make your organization's communication process more efficient.

Hassle-free way to stay connected

With eCrowds, membership contribution and participation is easier for your organization than ever before. By utilizing simple and intuitive tools and options, eCrowds will improve the time, cost, and energy it takes to maintain your site and see it grow. Because eCrowds makes contributing to your site and using your organization's social networking platform so easy, there is nothing to hinder your community members from partaking in the collective fun.

Making content relevant & accessible

Single-click rating systems, intuitive tagging systems, and the ability to comment on different items are elements central to the eCrowds platform. The ability to tag items with keywords and descriptions allows for improved content organization and searchability. Additionally, tagging and rating content ensures that items that directly relate to other items are visually correlated for users in the system. Even more importantly, if any of your community’s members are searching for content related to a certain keyword or term, these tags will help guide these individuals in finding what they’re looking for. In addition to tagging, the ability to rate content will allow users to have a say in what is deemed as credible and/or useful information to others. Providing your community with the instant ability to vote on and/or rate content will allow popular and useful contributions to gain momentum and visibility amongst your community. eCrowds allows your organization to continue further improve content relevancy and association by use of these features.