How to Buy WordFrame Subscriptions

The most straightforward way of buying WordFrame Community is for us to provide it Software as a Service for a monthly subscription fee that takes in to account the licence fee for the size of your community each month, as well as a hosting fee for the hardware capacity required to support it.

Our subscription pricing model caters for two types of user as they are added or invited in to a WordFrame system:

- Contributor user - someone who has a WordFrame profile and creates a post, or edits a wiki document
- Consumer user - someone who has a WordFrame profile, may have added comments, but no posts or wiki document editing.

For public sites and groups we also need to cater for the:

- Guest user - someone who does not sign in to WordFrame but uses the community site and may have the ability to add comments.

Note that Consumer users are billed from the month their profile is created, and Contributor users are billed from the month they create a blog or a wiki document.

We are currently developing a standard price list, which provides a banded, matrix of prices for different types of user. The matrix will cater for different sizes of community, and will provide a sliding scale of subscription prices as the community size increases. It will also cater for the hosting capacity and bandwidth required for the community.

However, one of the challenges we have is in providing a simple, published price list which caters for the very different capacities and variations of use for different types of community that might adopt WordFrame. We want to provide attractive pricing for small and medium enterprises and businesses with a few users in their community, as well as sensible pricing for larger communities with hundreds of thousands of users.

Consequently, please contact us with your details, and we will provide a specific quotation or proposal for your circumstances. Remember that you can also contact us for a free trial system to test WordFrame's capability without risk.

Please note that we aim to be flexible, so we are also happy to quote a subscription fee for installing WordFrame:

- on site on your own servers
- as an appliance that we connect to your network.

Get a FREE 30-Day Hosted Trial Account for WordFrame Community 1.0

Apply for hosted trial
The WordFrame Community 1.0 Hosted 30 Day Trial lets you explore WordFrame on your own private database that`s hosted on the ITBrix servers.

Sign up for a free 30-day trial for WordFrame Community 1.0 and quickly experience the robust, end-to-end web content and document management capabilities that WordFrame can provide. This is the most efficient way to try WordFrame Community 1.0, and does come free of charge.

Try out WordFrame quickly and easily without having to install anything on your PC. With access via a web browser, you can get started straight away.

When you apply for your trial, we'll set up a dedicated space that lets you:

- Use the full-scale functionality
- Have unlimited number of users and content during the period
- Customize your communities using skin templates
- Build public or private communities. Lock the whole trial in protected mode
- Enable the registration policy to manage who can participate
- Share documents and wiki with friends and colleagues when they register for a WordFrame account
- Generate and send newsletters. Manage your mail campaigns
- Rebrand the Look & Feel according to your needs
- Full customer and technical support for the period
- Transfer all the trial data to your own WordFrame platform

WordFrame Technical Specifications

Benefits of choosing WordFrame

- Quick implemention
- Quick customization
- Easy branding
- Fast issue trace and fix
- Powerful administration tools
- Scalability
- Stability
- Easy to support
- Web based
- Browser independent
- Strong permission policy feature specification


Operating system
- Windows 2003 Server +
- Windows Vista +


Database
- Microsoft SQL 2005 Express Edition
- Microsoft SQL 2005 Standard Edition
- Microsoft SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition

Application Server
- IIS 6 +


Browser
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer 6+
- Safari
- Opera


Languages
- English
- Bulgarian
- designed as a multi-lingual platform, for others contact sales


Technologies Used
- Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework
- asp.net 2.0
- AJAX
- Javascript
- CSS - separation of content from presentation
- URL rewriter
- Web Services
- Multi-Tier
- RSS and RPC
- Background Jobs
- Email Queue
- Auto-post Queue
- Custom Modules
- Full-Text Index Search Engine


Supported Interfaces
- Web Services


Third party modules
- Telerik RadControls for asp.net
- famfamfam.com icon set
- Rebex SecureMail
- Blogtronix Enterprise 2007 as it stands on 15 Nov 2007
- ConsultCommerce DataAdapter


Services – Certified and Supported
- Maintenance and Updates
- Customer Support – Problem Resolution, Compatibility and Migration Advice
- Customer Portal – Information, Bug Tracking and Case Tracking
- Performance Tuning Advice
- The Confidence and Guarantee that only comes from the Experts who built the Product

What can WordFrame do and how to describe it?

WordFrame is:

- Enterprise 2.0 web publishing, social networking and collaboration environment
- Blogs, wikis, people profiles, professional connections, RSS feed aggregation, group messaging, document management
- Flexible platform for search, categorization, tagging and presentation of content
- Find, connect and communicate with people
- Out-of-the-box, modular functionality, not a tool kit
- Easy for a non-technician to customize
- Community or group based
- Safe, secure, scalable environment
- Based on standard Microsoft technology
- A product with a future


Communities
- Organize members in to communities or groups
- Communities can be public or private
- Organize groups in any hierarchy or structure that you need
- Complete control over user security - a member in one community, but an administrator or moderator in another
- Configure user profile - hold any data you need
- Flexible sign up process - capture any mandatory or non-mandatory data you want
- Same style across whole site, or each group with own branding, theme, navigation, presentation, content modules
- Embed banners, sponsor links and advertising
- Email newsletters with links, summaries or full content
- Comprehensive site and group dashboards, statistics and reporting


Users
- WordFrame user creates profile once, then used for any WordFrame site
- Can be administrator, moderator, member, regular or guest in each group
- Join public groups, request invite or be invited in to private groups
- Detailed security rights and permissions configurable by user type, granted by the group's administrator
- User has my blog, my workspace - control over connections, communications, email
- Write content once, publish in any groups they have access to
- Can autopost selected content from any external blog
- Use WordFrame as news aggregator or RSS feed reader for any external content
- Add links and bookmarks
- Email notifications by group, post or comments


Content
- Create blog and forum posts with full commenting
- Upload or embed photos, movies, YouTube videos
- Links for standard bookmarking services - del.icio.us, digg, NewsVine, Reddit, TailRank, Technorati, YahooMyWeb
- Create wiki pages in any folder structure
- Configure user profile - hold any data you need
- In wiki pages - attach files, photos, videos, full version history, comparison and roll back
- Create static pages for standard site content
- Upload documents and files in any folder structure
- Structure and organize content for easy navigation in categories and category types
- Find content with freeform tags and tag cloud
- Digg style voting mechanism for community to rate content
- Standard modules for choice of the day, highest rated, most read, most discussed
- Add news items, events, polls
- Publish RSS feeds
- Choose from over 20 standard content modules, or create your own
- Rich text editor across all content types
- Intelligent cut/paste options handle Word, HTML, even embedded graphics and hyperlinks
- RSS feeds by site, group, post, comments


Administrators
- Create groups, sub-groups and category pages with home page content and module layout
- Choose from a library of theme styles, or ask us to design and build your specific theme
- 1, 2 or 3 column layout
- Manage site and group navigation
- Import or invite users, individually or from CSV file
- Complete control over all system generated message text for all processes
- White list and black list for domains and individual mail addresses
- Designed to be multi-lingual - English and Bulgarian available, contact us for any other language
- Complete control over all language files, so you can use your terminology rather than ours
- Can add scripts for external resources, like Google Analytics
- Ping servers management
- Corporate compliance controls for forbidden words and warning words
- Easily manage meta tags for Search Engine Optimisation

How WordFrame Community Works ...

WordFrame Community take collaboration to a new level, making it easy for users to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and share information. In addition, community managers can coordinate community content and user activity easily. The WordFrame Community environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment and administration - you can create a new community in seconds and arrange your site in any hierarchy or group structure that makes sense to you.

Communities
WordFrame Community provides places to capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents. The communities facilitate team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration, and surveys. Site content is accessible from any supported Web browser within Windows, Apple Mac or Linux operating systems. Each community can be public or private, and flexible access rights can be granted to administrators, moderators, members, regular users or guests.

Empowering Users and Social Networking
WordFrame community members can find, connect and communicate with key contacts and experts, both by e-mail and with personal messaging. Site content can be easily searched, and users can also receive alerts to tell them when existing documents and information have been changed, or when new information or documents have been added.

Corporate Blogging Platform
The WordFrame Community functionality can easily be used for group or corporate blogging. Every user in a WordFrame community can create posts with categories, tags and commenting, with all the ability to include YouTube videos, or photos from Flickr, or widget style functions that you would expect in any top quality blog platform. However, ours has been designed to work as a multi-user, scalable environment from the start. Content is organized in to a user's own blog, and can additionally be published in any of the available public or private communities that user has access to.

Web publishing or Aggregation Site
WordFrame Community can be used as a web publishing tool to link, organize and present different categories of content to different groups and audiences. Content can be created by the registered users, or automatically posted from any external blog's RSS feed - our autopost facility. Many of our users use the platform to aggregate content from a number of different bloggers and publishers, and we have standard facilities to integrate advertising and ad server solutions in to your site.

Community Management
WordFrame community managers can choose from a library of theme styles and customize the content and layout of communities to ensure that members can access and work with important and relevant information. Members' participation can be monitored and moderated when necessary. You can even watch for or ban content word by word to avoid unfortunate language. Security and task responsibilities are both flexible and easily accessible. Well-designed lists and entire community can be saved as templates and reused.

Administration and Deployment
WordFrame Community can scale to thousands of communities on a single platform installation. You can chose to have your communities hosted by us (on demand or Software as a Service) , implemented on your own servers, or as an appliance that we install in your network. In any of these cases, we take responsibility for managing the platform and keeping the software versions up to date.

How would you benefit from the usage of WordFrame?

Effective information sharing and collaboration is rapidly becoming a strategic platform advantage, but that advantage can be compromised if collaboration technologies are deployed in a piecemeal fashion. Some companies end up deploying one tool for corporate blogging, a different tool for wikis, a third for news feed aggregation, and then other tools for file sharing and document management. At WordFrame's our vision is to deliver an integrated, comprehensive set of technologies that are designed to work together.

This unified platform provides the following advantages:

- Rich out-of-the-box functionality, assuring community managers of quick, cost-effective deployment, not a toolkit with an associated development project.

- Easy deployment, enabling community managers to implement collaboration capabilities within their organization's time frame and budget.

- Easy and cost-effective extensibility, enabling community managers to build community-specific solutions and develop managed, hosted services connecting members, customers, partners, and suppliers.

- Familiar tools, enabling users to quickly and easily share information and collaborate with peers.

- Community-wide standards, providing persistent security, management, reporting, and integration on a scalable platform.

Welcome to WordFrame Community Platform !

What is WordFrame Community Platform?

WordFrame is at the forefront of a new breed of business communication and social networking tools that include blogs, wikis, people profiles, professional connections, the use of RSS feeds, group messaging and document management which are now known, collectively, as Enterprise 2.0. We provide a single, secure platform that combines all of these technologies in to a web publishing and collaboration environment that is designed to help you build:

- better web communities

These new tools allow more spontaneous, knowledge-based collaboration. They make it easy for your people to:

- find and connect with the right expertise inside your organization
- create and comment on blog posts to share and discuss ideas and information
- use wiki pages to collaborate on document creation
- upload and share conventional documents, presentations and spreadsheets
- Share news, events, links to useful resources or ask questions in a poll
- organize content and collaboration in public or private groups in the structure or hierarchy that works for you
- create a secure environment that could be used in different ways by different people internally and externally, so you can really connect your team with your customers, partners and advisors.

More agile, lightweight web 2.0 tools like WordFrame can take the place of traditional, structured intranets, shared drives, knowledge management and e-mail based systems. They can help break down the boundaries, compress hierarchies, reduce the friction of information flow, and in so doing unlock value with increased innovation and productivity

WordFrame Community provides an out-of-the-box solution that allows teams to create Web communities for information sharing and document collaboration, benefits that help increase individual and team productivity. WordFrame Community is based on Microsoft asp.net 2.0 Framework. It includes IT resources such as community workspaces, blogs, user profiles, e-mail, document management, wiki, audio and video publishing, all secure and easily managed via a feature-rich administration shell. WordFrame Community enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently, as well as connect to and work with others more productively.