The DaliCommunity platform of LodgOn offers a powerful, solid environment for the implementation of customized Web2.0 applications: web-based communities like discussion sites, weblogs, photobooks, ... Besides of the standard features of a community software package, the DaliCommunity platform has some striking advantages:

• LodgON can provide the hosting of your community. This scales down the efforts and costs substantially, and releases you of the burden of software installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Extra features are provided to stimulate the community dynamics, like a mail notification system, a reputation management system for rewarding active community members, rich user profiles.
• A finegrained permission management makes it possible to define permission layers in the community. In many cases, not everyone should have access to everything, and the LodgON solutions provide you the tools to cope with this.
• The information in the community is made available via open standards like RSS, RDF and XML (full content). This substantially broadens the impact and reach of the information in the community.
• Community tools like posting of information, data querying, requesting a user profile, etc. are accessible also via web-services (WSDL). This allows third parties to integrate communities that are based on the Lodgon community platform into their projects (website, portal,…), and makes the LodgON solution a very open solution.
• Administration capabilities allow easy management of the community. Different rights can be assigned to moderators and administrators.

LodgON has experience on environments that support single sign on procedures (e.g. Liberty). This competence can be crucial when a community has to be integrated with an existing user authentication and managing system.

In conclusion, the LodgON community platform is a powerful, open architecture, customizable community product that supports threaded discussions on websites. LodgON takes care of the hosting and maintenance, and lets you focus on the design and the content of the community.