Member profiles are critical for storing the user’s data, displaying the activities inside the social network, content contribution, and make the user discoverable for networking.
Activity feed is important to keep the members informed about what’s happening inside the site. Members can interact with the content (comments, upvotes, follow, etc.) based on interest.
Groups help you categorize content and foster connection between members with a shared passion. Hence, groups acts as one of the key channels for new member discovery.
The user-generated content inside the social network must be categorized for efficient search. Also, the community layout must be customized to showcase the relevant content.
You must own the data generated in the community. That’s why your social network must allow you to easily import and export all the data. Consider exporting members and content for advanced analysis and regulatory compliance.
Activity feed is important to keep the members informed about what’s happening inside the site. Members can interact with the content (comments, upvotes, follow, etc.) based on interest.
Groups help you categorize content and foster connection between members with a shared passion. Hence, groups acts as one of the key channels for new member discovery.
The user-generated content inside the social network must be categorized for efficient search. Also, the community layout must be customized to showcase the relevant content.
There would be different types of networking — a member might simply follow another member or form two members might form a mutual friendship. The network might have public membership or invite-only membership.
It is important to keep track of the community health and get insights on the member behavior at a granular level. Ensure that your social network offers the capability to measure the key metrics.
There must be a robust tool to keep the members updated about the important activities in the community and their profile. Notifications can be sent via email, inside the site, messaging apps, and more.
Your social network site must integrate with other popular third-party tools and expose a comprehensive API to build any kind of customization for smooth data transfer and process automation.
| SaaS | Self-hosted | CMS+Plugin | Custom-built solution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customizability | Low to high | Medium to high | Medium to high | High |
| Cost | Low to medium | Medium | Low to medium | Very high |
| Time to market | Very low | Low to medium | Low to medium | High |
| Technical expertise needed | Low to medium | Medium to high | Medium to high | Very High |
| Data export | Available | Available | Available | Available |
| Security threat | Low | High | Very high | Low |
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Since the Tribe Platform is a cloud-based solution, as a community builder you don’t have to worry about the hosting and technical details such as software maintenance, upgrades, database, etc. All you have to do is work on growing and moderating your community.
Tribe offers a fully customizable community platform that can be customized by selecting and showcasing different components of the community exactly the way you need. It can also completely adopt your brand guidelines to a pixel via CSS changes.
Activity feed is designed to deliver personalized content to the community members, boost engagement, and make your community sticky.
Tribe offers a free plan that supports up to 100 members and allows you to point your own custom domain. The Premium plan unlocks additional features such as SSO, allows you to use custom apps, and removes Tribe branding.
Tribe’s community solution has been built with a vibrant ecosystem of apps and API that work together to extend the functionality of the core platform. There are 20+ built-in integrations with leading third-party tools to automate data flow and automate the existing process.
Any social network powered by Tribe completely owns the data as well. As a community owner, you can always export any content or member data. Many of our clients are already performing advanced text analytics on the user-generated content.
Social networks powered by Tribe come with a beautiful and modern design that is based on modern user behavior and familiar features of social media. It can be completely customized according to your brand guidelines — right from logo and color combinations to intricate CSS modifications.
Tribe delivers configurable reputation management system with leaderboards, badges, and points to help you execute various gamification tactics. Also, the virtual currency system helps you influence member behavior by directly offering incentives.
Tribe has powerful moderation functionality — it allows you to blacklist list keywords and automatically puts the content with such keyword in the moderation queue. You can also define a minimum reputation score to allow members to post content. Of course, the members can always report any inappropriate content.
Based on the community flywheel concept, Tribe offers embeddable widgets that can be used to add different elements (e.g., discussions) of the community inside any other product or website. This helps add community touchpoints across the buyer lifecycle and improve customer experience.
Tribe’s design philosophy is based on personalized and rich activity feed suitable for new-age social media.
Deliver immersive social experience right inside your product or website with widgets. Some of the prominent examples can be enabling user engagement under the product listings and allowing members to share feedback without leaving your website or app.
Tribe offers some of the most compelling modern apps such as an incentivization system via virtual currency that can be used to get desired user action, easy user management, and powerful analytics.
Tribe is a white-label platform. You can customize the platform to build any kind of community and change the design exactly based on the brand guidelines.
