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Connecting Communities Through Technology

Create the ideal online environment for your Community!

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Connecting Communities Through Technology

Connecting Communities Through Technology

Create the ideal online environment for your Community!

Create the ideal online environment for your Community!

Create the ideal online environment for your Community!

Create the ideal online environment for your Community!

Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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CREATE THE IDEAL ONLINE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY

Would you like to do more for your local community and ensure that it has a high-quality online hub? Well so would we.

With Ventown Community Online you can help us build it and be at the forefront of your community's online future in one or more ways:

1.  Donate to help further our community building efforts

2.  Become a community manager

3.  Recommend your community to us

What is Ventown Community Online?

It is a social media hub for local communities: everything in one feed, instantly available, available wherever you go.

It is easy to forget how much of our lives we spend in our communities. Yet, for most locations around the country it is very difficult if not impossible to connect with others in the same community and get relevant content in a single feed.

To remedy this, Ventown has created Community Online. It is the mobile and desktop hub that sorts messages according to specific communities, rather than by friends or followers. You’ll get updates, information, interaction, business and service content, community events, and more from your local community. It is something everyone will engage with and want to use everyday.

Why donate?

Your donation will help ensure that many local communities get a Community Online hub and a community manager.

There’s a goldmine of social and economic opportunity within local community ecosystems that is waiting to be realized with Community Online.

It’s one of the most important ways to get:

More engaged residents

Lower rates of crime

More community organizations

Superior public schools

Better parks, services and public health

More successful small businesses

We’ve created a very powerful social media platform for accessing the broadest range of people and content in any community or cluster of overlapping communities (think Venn diagram) and it’s ready to start connecting people now.

Why get involved as a community manager?

Ventown will provide the platform to communities but we are also looking for community managers who are excited to launch and grow their Community Online audience.

As the community manager you will play a leadership role and foster a much-needed sense of community. Ultimately you will be shaping how your community grows online, enjoy seeing people coming together for the greater good, and feel proud in knowing that its success is because of you.

We have a flexible 10-15 hours per week contractor program that runs in 3-month increments and pays $23 per hour.

We also offer our Partners2000 Program that may be right for you too. The program is a form of social financing that provides referral fees and stock options in certain cases to community managers that want to grow their community quicker and get greater returns.

What are the mechanics?

They work like this: We’ve made it very simple to adopt Community Online. We will train you on how to enter content and how to keep your community active. We’ve created infographics, blogs, videos and other materials to explain Community Online to individuals, communities and businesses —what it is for, how it works, what you’re supposed to do.

We will be there with you as you launch and have regular check-ins with you to see how you’re doing and whether there’s anything we can help with.

We’ll show you how to reach out to community members to grow your audience and how you can work together with other stakeholders that will introduce their audiences to open up a larger set of users.

You’ll ask people to weigh in on issues, share ideas, use the power of the crowd to benefit your community, introduce those in need to those that can help, increase awareness for community events and alerts, use WOMM (word-of-mouth messages) for updates, and bring in local government, businesses, schools and agencies along with their audiences.

Where will content come from?

Community Online is about local content and interaction, which comes from the community itself. Much of the initial content for your community will come from you, your co-community managers, and the people that join early on.

As the audience grows, more and more of the content will come in from the wider community, including residents and families, public agencies, schools, non-profits, business owners, and more - everyone and every group that makes up your community. We can also link in other content channels and information sources (such as news, weather, alerts, etc.)

Ready to become a community manager? Please submit the following:

An email letter/note showcasing your writing skills and explaining why Community Online is a great fit for you

  A resume or simple outline of your relevant experience

  A link to your social media profiles

If you’re passionate about building communities or you know someone that might be a good fit, please let us know.

Ready to recommend your community?

We think the power of the crowdsourcing community is key to launching Community Online so we need your help finding the low hanging fruit.

We want to earn your coverage, ask you to run with it, and share it with your networks.

So send us an email letter/note telling us about your community and getting us excited too. If you are successful, we will provide you and your community with Community Online and find the community manager.

Money, again?

We’ve already invested heavily in building and testing the platform and mobile app.

Your support will help us launch communities and find great community managers.

What better investment could there possibly be than ensuring our communities can pan for gold?

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