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APG vNext: Community & Content Unified:
Get More Members; Create Better Engagement

"People Come for Content and Stay for Community" made practical
with this brand new ASP.NET online community software
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asp.net forum software for your online community

Friendly web communities running our ASP.NET forum software:

For years, Virgin Atlantic & US Coast Guard have relied on our community software
to help their pilots and guards stay in touch, both on and off duty -

My primary focus was providing a tool that Coast Guard field units throughout the United States could effectively use to share knowledge and experience amongst themselves as well as command entities on a timely basis.

The ASPPlayground.NET Forum software meets these communication requirements, including the ability to share documents and graphics, providing an intuitive and user friendly interface for a satisfying user experience.

Greg J. Ozzimo | United States Coast Guard

#1: The Unique ASP Playground Advantage:

Why APG vNext (ASP Playground version 4) ?

Our software lets you combine content & community to boost engagement on your site

Creating an online community today involves much more than installing a forum and waiting for people to come. The web has evolved and you don't want outdated platforms to cripple  your efforts:

An old-school forum no longer cuts it. Forum as a platform has remained unchanged for almost 10 years, when the Internet has evolved significantly during the same period of time. People today have new expectations and Google wants to reward websites that produce quality content for their audience.

On the other hand, a blog-only website has significant drawbacks, too. As people have no reason to stick around after reading your posts, it's difficult for the audience to stay engaged until your next blog post comes out. Your readers have no way to connect with each other, either, making creating a strong Sense of Community impossible.

How about using a blog + a forum? Not ideal, because who has the time and energy to manage multiple software (headache) and still stay productive today? Not to mention the numerous integration issues that need solving first in order to provide your visitors a consistent User Experience.

Enter APG vNext (version 4) ...

Since "People Come For Content & Stay For Community" is as true as ever, why take them apart? With APG vNext, your blog and forum are unified into one system (not just integrated), giving you great time-saving advantage: You can post any content to the forum, and pick select posts to show on your blog, with no duplication effort or a separate software to manage.

For today's mobile & social network savvy crowd, APG vNext comes with advanced features that help you meet their new expectations. You get a modern community platform, along with a dedicated mobile web app, social media sign-in capability, and HTML5 / CSS3 powered UI (e.g. drag'n drop upload, AJAX based interactions, etc.).

Do you know: APG vNext can handle 100's~1000's of concurrent users

Performance is a premium for online communities, because the platform potentially has to serve hundreds (or even thousands) of users at any moment. Poor performance can lead to bad user experience and low search engine rankings.

APG vNext is battle tested with HUGE communities online (see below for example). Scalability is never an issue, so you don't have to turn off features as your community becomes popular. We also make the system easy to scale-out when you need it (no session affinity load balancer required). One client uses as many as 9 web servers for their enormous audience.

The Power of Content & Community, minus the headaches ...

Discussion Forums - make website sticky, attract new and return visitors

Create a community on your site for people to come back to again and again to share ideas, photos and documents. The software takes advantage of HTML5/CSS3, and you'll find WYSIWYG, drag'n drop file upload, full read tracking, and Ajax-based interactions that provide exceptional User Experience.

Unified Blog - content publishing without managing multiple software

Create an instant blog from existing forum content, without content duplication or a separate software to worry about. Simply pick the forums and labels to extract content from, and the software will instantly publish matched posts on your blog. Grow your blog and forum at once.

Yes, the software is working very smoothly. It is widely used across Virgin Atlantic by all the Crew/Pilots and office staffs.

Pankaj Kumar | Virgin Atlantic

Mobile Web App - capture & serve the future of Internet traffic today

Let your members access your community from anywhere in the world, using any smartphones or tablets they like. This feature rich app will detect the devices automatically. Powered by jQuery Mobile, this mobile web app is lightweight and loads fast even on slow networks.

Social Media Sign-in - get people to join with a single mouse click

Remove the hassle of registration and stop the membership leak, because 84% of adults online dislike being asked to register on yet another website.  With integrated membership authentication with Facebook, Twitter and Google+, it takes only a mouse click to turn your visitors into members.

Community Highlights - make it more interesting with headlines & photos

No more dull community home page, instead, create attention-grabbing headlines and graphics that draw visitors' attention instantly. Model how news media (like CNN) engage their visitors and readers.

Pages Creation - designing and creating special pages for your community

Create pages with keyword-optimized URL and Title. Very useful when you want to deliver content outside the forum & blog system, like special contest announcement or private content for VIPs.

Google Friendly - integrated Analytics & Authorship, giving you an edge on Search

Improve your rankings on Google with G+ Authorship integration & Search Engine Friendly URLs for all your forums and blog posts. Integrate Google Analytics to help collect vital stats about your members.

For More Info, Take a Full Feature Tour ...

We use this software for cakewalk.com, supporting 70,000 users and 2.5 million of posts. It has never let us down despite this heavy load and nearly constant usage.

Ron Kuper | Cakewalk.com

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-- page last updated: Monday, October 14, 2013

What Other Communities use our software?

Organizations use our forum software to build
public facing communities

When Susan G. Komen Foundation needed a message board for their members to discuss cancer treatment options and get support from others, they chose ASPPlayground.NET. Their community is now home to more than 25,000 members and hosts more than 350,000 discussions.

EVGA, a successful computer video card maker, started their customer community 9 years ago from scratch with our software. Their community is now a hub for more than ~2 million members and hosts thousands of daily discussions.

In the fitness industry, MuscleTalk UK is now a daily hangout for more than 55,000 avid body builders and have created a strong sense of community which helps their members find tips, training materials and supplement info every body builder would love to know.

So far they have more than 4.6 million discussions, and it is running ASP Playground, too.

"Community of Practice" gathers professionals
to share their knowledge

AuntMinnie is the first Internet community for radiologists and related professionals in the medical imaging industry. More than 35,000 professional members are spending time meeting, researching and collaborating on topics in the radiology field. 

DrBicuspid has a relatively young community with about 2600 members. This content rich site is dedicated to general dentists, specialists and other dental professionals. They are currently using ASP Playground to organize comments to their articles.

Our community software helps clients in tech industries
provide responsive customer service

Cakewalk, a hardware products creator for modern audio production, supports more than 70,000 customers with peer-to-peer support using our ASP.NET forum software. With a vibrant community in place, it makes customer support possible without incurring huge overhead.

GFI, an award winning software solutions provider for small to mid-sized businesses, created an online support community for their customers to ask questions about their product offerings as well as distribute news for upcoming product releases.

More than 25,000 customers signed up over the last 8 years and this community plays an important role in their support system till this day.

International communities find excellent use of
our ASP.NET forum software

Otosaigon, a top 30 social network in Vietnam and DonanimHaber, the #1 hardware community in Turkey, for years have used our software to serve their members. They are so huge (check them out yourself) so they want to generate revenue to support the communities.

Because ASP Playground is customizable, adding banner ads or Google Adsense is very easy (a few lines of code in a couple templates). Thanks to the ads served through their forums, both communities have generated significant income that continue to fuel their own growth.

     

Of course, it takes MORE than a well built software to create great communities online (e.g. passion, dedication and a good strategy). We're very proud that ASP Playground has played a part in their success and contributed to their community growth over the years :)

EVGA has been using ASP Playground for our community forum for 9+ years... The software runs fantastic; it’s fast even under load. Our main community can post about 200 times per hour, and over 16k concurrent users at our peak, it keeps up without an issue.

Joe Darwin | EVGA

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