Launched in 2007, HiveLive’s LiveConnect is one of the most creatively designed and original community platforms we’ve seen. A hosted system with a building-block approach, it gives both users and administrators wide-ranging flexibility to create unique spaces for collaboration and communication inside and outside your organization. In essence, it lets you and your customers design the community together. LiveConnect’s building blocks, called “Hives,” can be configured to support conventional social applications (discussion boards, blogs, polls, etc.) as well as custom community applications, such as media archives, idea centers, file exchanges, software marketplaces, and more.
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HiveLive must have developed LiveConnect without looking over its shoulder at existing community platforms. It looks and feels different, and it is. This is largely due to HiveLive’s approach to design, which focuses on users (and the relationships among them) and information, not technology.
LiveConnect looks different because, like the Google home page, it doesn’t pack information into every square inch of real estate. And it feels different because its building-block approach to tools is more open, flexible (and, in some ways, more involved) than that of most other community platforms.
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