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Reader Features

News

• Aggregates content from 3rd party news sources, Facebook pages, Neighborhood Marketing Centers, reader submitted stories, Q&A and other sources
• Provides online reading of full article from original website
• Continually refreshed through continuous and automated polling of sources
• Distributed via email newsletter to subscribers
• Selected articles distributed to associated Facebook pages and social media sites
• Available in optimized format for mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Android and Blackberry
• Supports article comments
• Includes weather forecast
• Includes upcoming calendar events
• Features selected ads and deals from sponsors

Reader Submitted Stories

• Provides moderated submissions
• Provides rich text editor for editing event details
• Posts can be done online or through mobile phones
• As available, images are rotated to correct orientation
• Automatically fed on to newsletter
• Selected articles distributed to associated Facebook pages and social media sites

Features

• Aggregates content from Neighborhood Marketing Centers and select neighborhood bloggers
• Automatically fed on to newsletter

Q&A

• Provides moderated questions for the neighborhood from neighborhood readers
• Readers can vote on the favorite responses or add their own
• Readers can join email list to receive alerts of new questions
• Automatically fed on to newsletter
• Selected events fed on to related Facebook and social media sites
• Responders kept up-to-date with other replies

Calendar

• Provides moderated event submissions
• Automatically fed on to the newsletter
• Selected events fed on to related Facebook and social media sites
• Supports both timed and all-day events
• Download events into Outlook and other personal calendar programs
• Supports recurring events
• Provides support for location information
• Provides rich text editor for editing event details
• Adjusted for user time zone settings
• Offers topic and tagging categorization
• Supports multi-level comments

Directory

• Provides categorized and alphabetical directory of neighborhood businesses
• Allows business owners and customers to submit photos of their business or visit to the business
• Provides geo-coding of entries for finding via BubbleLife’s mobile site
• Business owners can update their own directory entry with updated address, web address, social media links and description
• Directory entry provides a lead capture form for business inquiries sent directly to the business owner

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Advertiser Features

With today’s technology, Advertisers know it’s more than broadcasting information about their products and services. Local merchants desire relevance in the communities they serve. That comes through telling stories that inform, entertain, education and inspire. But they want their efforts to count. The Neighborhood Marketing Center offers the means for achieving relevance and results.

Articles

• Edit articles in either rich-text or HTML
• Attach or include photos with articles
• Attach links with automatic web page thumbnail creation
• Include surveys with articles and track results
• Use PC-based blogging tools such as Microsoft Live Writer
• Supports multi-level comments with email notification of new entries to thread participants
• Submit articles or comments by email
• Automatic picture rotation of iPhone submitted photos by email
• Geo-location picture information when available
• Automatic generation of article thumbnails
• Automatic RSS feed generation
• Special support for pasting text from Microsoft Word documents
• Spell checker
• Customizable signature provides consistency in articles

Calendar

• Supports both timed and all-day events
• Download events into Outlook and other personal calendar programs
• Supports recurring events
• Include attendance surveys online and through email
• Provides support for location information including both one-time and group specific locations
• Provides rich text editor for editing event details
• Adjusted for user time zone settings
• Offers easy one-click distribution of events by email and social media
• Offers easy one-click distribution to friend groups such as the neighborhood calendar
• Offers topic and tagging categorization
• Supports multi-level comments with email notification of new entries to thread participants
• Submit comments by email

Files

• Upload any file type
• Supports file versioning
• Preview Microsoft Office formats online without downloading
• Convert Microsoft Office formats into PDF for easy downloading
• Track file downloads and image views
• Organize by folder
• Automatically scanned for viruses
• Provides rich text editor for editing description
• Supports multi-level comments with email notification of new entries to thread participants

Images

• Supports common image file types
• Supports image versioning
• Track views
• Organize by folder
• Automatically scanned for viruses
• Provides rich text editor for editing description
• Supports multi-level comments with email notification of new entries to thread participants
• Support geo-location information
• Displays embedded image information
• Allows image rotation after upload
• Supports image resizing and cropping via URL parameters

Links

• Track link clicks
• Automatic creates web page thumbnail
• Provides rich text editor for editing description
• Organize by folder
• Supports multi-level comments with email notification of new entries to thread participants

Wiki

• Supports wiki markup language
• Offers tailored wiki editor
• Context menu for image and link insertion
• Supports multi-level comments with email notification of new entries to thread participants

Member/Email List Features

Web Inquiries

• Easily add web inquiry form to user view
• Sends automatic email on new web inquiries
• Tracks web inquiries online and tracks follow-up

Landing Pages

• Create landing pages for any need
• Includes lead capture fields
• Integrates with and tracked by web inquiry capability
• Sends email notification of new entries
• Optionally, sends customizable email message to user after completion

User/Email List Management

• Provides links for members to invite new members
• Import individual email addresses
• Import batch email addresses from Excel or CSV files
• Provide easy join links from your website or social media pages
• Provide easy join link from your Facebook page
• Customize message user receives on join or import

Advertising & Campaign Management

• Easily change banner graphics and text ads
• Track impressions and clicks
• Target any combination of neighborhoods*
• Track links from third party ad and marketing sources
• Graphs of activity by campaign and in total

Customization and Optimization Features

Content Type Customization

• Create content libraries as needed for articles (discussions), calendar events, online files, photos, links and wikis
• Predefine topics for all content
• Link external content to specific pages
• Predefine locations for calendar events
• Configurable left-side options for custom text boxes, web inquiry forms, local weather information and more.
• Predefine templates for article creation.

Security

• Optional moderation provides complete control of what gets posted
• Control who has access to what content types
• Control which pages members can see
• Control what members and non-members can view
• Control who has administrative and moderation privileges
• Control visibility of member list
• Prevent display of inappropriate content

URL Customization

• Dedicated URL for access to group site
• Dedicated URL for access to group mobile site
• Supports use of custom URLs

Appearance Customization

• Provide links to other social media connections
• Control page layout of content
• Control layout of articles – full articles or summaries
• Provide article icons base on topics
• Customizable page title and tag lines
• Customizable page logos
• Customizable stylesheets for advanced control

Search Engine Optimization

• Smart page titles generate higher search engine placement of content
• Intelligent and automatic search engine optimization of all content
• Configurable search engine descriptions and keyword tagging
• Optional RSS feed serving through FeedBurner (by Google) for advanced feed analytics

Social Media Optimization

• Automatic Facebook meta tagging for improved Facebook sharing

Mobile Optimization

• Special mobile version URL for content
• Supports iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and later versions of Windows and Blackberry smartphones
• Contact forms included in mobile sites
• Geo-coding of address for finding by nearest location