Feature Summary
BubbleLife.com Feature Summary
News
- Aggregates content from 3rd party news sources, Facebook pages, Neighborhood Marketing Centers, reader submitted stories, Q&A and other sources
- Provides online reading of full article from original website
- Continually refreshed through continuous and automated polling of sources
- Distributed via email newsletter to subscribers
- Selected articles distributed to associated Facebook pages and social media sites
- Available in optimized format for mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Android and Blackberry
- Supports article comments
- Includes weather forecast
- Includes upcoming calendar events
- Features selected ads and deals from sponsors
Reader Submitted Stories
- Provides moderated submissions
- Provides rich text editor for editing event details
- Posts can be done online or through mobile phones
- As available, images are rotated to correct orientation
- Automatically fed on to newsletter
- Selected articles distributed to associated Facebook pages and social media sites
Features
- Aggregates content from Neighborhood Marketing Centers and select neighborhood bloggers
- Automatically fed on to newsletter
Q&A
- Provides moderated questions for the neighborhood from neighborhood readers
- Readers can vote on the favorite responses or add their own
- Readers can join email list to receive alerts of new questions
- Automatically fed on to newsletter
- Selected events fed on to related Facebook and social media sites
- Responders kept up-to-date with other replies
Calendar
- Provides moderated event submissions
- Automatically fed on to the newsletter
- Selected events fed on to related Facebook and social media sites
- Supports both timed and all-day events
- Download events into Outlook and other personal calendar programs
- Supports recurring events
- Provides support for location information
- Provides rich text editor for editing event details
- Adjusted for user time zone settings
- Offers topic and tagging categorization
- Supports multi-level comments
Directory
- Provides categorized and alphabetical directory of neighborhood businesses
- Allows business owners and customers to submit photos of their business or visit to the business
- Provides geo-coding of entries for finding via BubbleLife’s mobile site
- Business owners can update their own directory entry with updated address, web address, social media links and description
- Directory entry provides a lead capture form for business inquiries sent directly to the business owner
