Resident Interactive - The Leading Provider of Community Intranets

   Congratulations on your decision to implement a community intranet in your neighborhood. You have taken the first steps to making your neighborhood a wired community!

   This Community Intranet Feature Comparison Matrix will help you thoroughly evaluate multiple vendors' community intranet product and services.

   The Matrix covers a wide array of features that are typically found in community intranets. Some of the features covered in the matrix may not seem important to you in the short term, but as more and more people become comfortable with communicating and obtaining information online, members in your association will start to demand more advanced features from their community intranet. It is also important to keep future growth of usage patterns in mind, and consider concepts such as scalability and performance.

The features that are covered in this Comparison Matrix are the following:

General Features
Technical Support
Summary Page
Online Newsletters
Document and File Library (optional module)
Calendars
Directories
Classified Ads
Message Boards
Surveys
Forms (optional module)
Local Content
Board Package
(optional module)
Security
Technical Considerations
Marketing and Revenue
Generating Features

A Microsoft Excel version of this Feature Comparison Matrix is also available. The spreadsheet version includes a point scoring system that will quickly identify the best solution for your community based on the features you consider most important.

Good luck with your evaluation!