Social Network, Community Portal Development
Having won two prestigious awards for the community portal site Dockwalk.com our social network based on a community platform offers a highly customisable, feature rich head-start to build both open and closed membership communities with the best Web 2.0 toolset available.
In as little as 10 weeks your membership could be building links to one another, forming groups and sharing knowledge with our suite of community portal web 2.0 controls.
Because we have built modular social networking sites arournd the .net framework, as well as integrating the Ektron Content Management System, we can design and build a site to exactly meet your needs. This gives you far more flexibility than using an 'out of the box' tool, but also gives you the benefit of not having to build your system from scratch.
We have gained a huge amount of experience in the design of social networking sites and community portals and understand what does and doesn't work when building communities.
We offer a full Search Engine Optimisation service, which can include advice on Google Analytics, Adwords, search engine optimisation, URL rewriting, link generation, and many other devices to make sure that your site stays at the top of the rankings.
You application can feature a mixture of pre-built modules and bespoke development work, allowing the platform to grow and change as your needs change.
A typical AMT Community Portal and Social Network site can feature:
- Full CMS functionality allowing you to change content, manage Search Engine Optimisation and enable workflow.
- Full Web 2.0 toolbox.
- Validated or open Membership with custom fields, geocode lookup and storing of member location.
- Friends module to find friends by location, custom fields and manage the invitation process.
- User generated video upload and management.
- User generate photo album upload and management.
- Full tagging, comments and links of all cms generated and user generated content.
- User Star Rating to highlight members who are actively using the site most
- Group generation and management allowing like minded members to interact via Walls, Shout boards and document repositories.
- Favorites management allowing your members to keep their favorite pages saved against their login rather than on a static computer.
- Diary and Itinerary features to allow a member to show where and when they will be in a given location or event.
- Two way link to Microsoft CRM or Pivotal
- Two way link to Microsoft SharePoint
- Wiki based Search and Tag Cloud Searches
- Search of all document content such as Pdf and Word files.
- Enhanced Jobs Board linked to the members profiles
- Forums
- Blogs
- Banner Advertising
Projects include:

MSI Global Social Network, Community Portal
Having taken over the MSI Global Directory listing members and companies in 2008 AMT Data developed a bespoke Community Platform for the site. Additional fields were added to the site database and Pivotal CRM. A modular approach was taken to add an advanced search facility, member invite system, membership ‘Groups’ including a ‘Shout Board’ and member relationship mamagement.
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Dockwalk Social Network, Community Portal
Dockwalk, a monthly publication from Boat International Media for superyacht captains and crews, commissioned a community site for their readers that would give them a “who,” “where” and “when” in just 10 weeks. Within six months of launch the site had more than 6,000 members and now has over 14,000.
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