Build Your Social Community: Providers

Since Five Across got acquired by Cisco, there has been good interest in building social communities. There are several vendors that will offer build your own community hosted services.  Here are a few providers.

1. Going On: “Organizations of all sizes can use GoingOn to build interactive communities around their most important initiatives and benefit from the open and compatible “network of networks” environment.”

2. iUpload: “iUpload is a leading content management and corporate blogging software company whose solutions help organizations optimize the marketing potential of their content.

Whether you’re an individual, a corporation or a community, iUpload provides a powerful one-stop solution for creating, managing and distributing all of your content, while giving you a new social marketing platform that extends your corporate voice and strengthens your brand across multiple communities.”

3. Pluck: Pluck provides Social Media solutions for publishers, broadcasters and major brands.

4. CrowdFactory: To help companies leverage the new medium, we have developed a social media platform and toolset to power white-label social network communities.

5. KickApps: KickApps is ahosted platform that allows webmasters to quickly and easily deploy user-generated content and social networking functionality directly on their websites.

6. People Aggregator: PeopleAggregator is a social network and blogging system in a box. You can create a hosted network or download and run it yourself. You can control who is in your network, what content it displays and what its rules are.