White paper on community platforms

Six Online Community Vendors for Associations: An Analysis

Published October 5, 2009
This resource features six fabulous vendors who are committed to the association community–Higher Logic, NFi Studios, The Port, The Social Collective, Socious, and SusQtech. We all shared the cost of producing this whitepaper so you can download it for free.

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Description: The purpose of this paper is to help you think through the criteria for online community platforms that are important to you and your members, and then see how these six vendors meet those criteria. We have very specifically chosen NOT to put together one of those massive tables with check marks that no one outside of the IT department can actually interpret. This paper is aimed at the rest of the decision makers—those of us who are less from IT but instead from marketing, communications, government relations, PR, and membership departments, or those “many hat†wearers from small staff associations whose responsibilities cover several of these areas. It’s a great starting point, if we say so ourselves.

Preview: Scroll through the whitepaper before you download.
SocialFish Online Community Vendor Analysis Whitepaper

Excerpts: If you’re not into downloading the whole thing, you can read excerpts from the paper in our blog, starting with these links to the six Online Community Vendor Spotlight CEO Interviews which are part of the paper.

CEO Interview: Scott Balthazor, Socious

CEO Interview: Bob Cramer, ThePort Network

CEO Interview: Chris Bucchere, The Social Collective

CEO Interview: Rob Wenger, Higher Logic

CEO Interview: Mike Steadman, SusQtech

CEO Interview: Sterling Raphael, NFi Studios