Community Web, a provider of web hosting services that support volunteer community organizations, announces its Join the Network Holiday Campaign to bring all Metro DC neighborhood and PTA groups into its network with a free trial.

Bethesda, MD – December 20, 2005 – Today, Community Web, a provider of web hosting services that supports locally oriented volunteer organizations announces a drive to get all neighborhood and PTA groups into its network to improve civic and school life.

The Best System Available to Try for Free

Community Web, one of the oldest and most advanced community portal providers in the country, is now making a big push to have every citizens association and PTA in the DC metro area join its Network of Neighborhoods. As a holiday gift, Community Web will waive its already very affordable rates of $50 YEAR per SITE each civic association/$75 YEAR per SITE each PTA for six months so that local groups can experience how powerfully the site and portal can change community and family life and make the job of volunteers so much easier. This campaign ends on 31 January 2006.

Experience Tools to Make Volunteer Life Much Simpler

Community Web’s goal is to make its system accessible to every civic association and PTA in the area so that these groups can take advantage of our powerful suite of tools. Not only does Community Web provide a state-of-the-art, safe and secure website, it provides an unmatched set of tools for volunteers that make membership tasks, communication with members, surveying members, archiving documents and photos, and reaching out to other communities so simple. And, more great improvements are on the way in 2006.

Not a Stand-alone Site—Helps you Share and Work with Other Volunteers

Unlike most community portal companies which provide a stand-alone site designed to push advertisements at the community, Community Web provides a warm site which CONNECTS residents and parent volunteers across the region by sharing resources across the area, while still providing a private site for members only. Multiple tools allow volunteers to work on issues in just their community, or across the entire metro. Most areas of the portal allow users to decide which audience they feel comfortable with, from just their association to the entire area. The site is dynamic, providing relevant content to the community area, but also allowing users to reach out farther if they wish. News articles, family events, online directory, service company ratings, classifieds and one of the largest searchable Parents Guides and Family Places to Go databases in the area are shared across the portal. These and other interactive functions provide a great experience for members that keep them coming back to the association site again and again.

Join Thousands of Other Community-Oriented People Who Care

One of the best security features that Community Web offers is the large base of quality users. Because most neighborhood officers verify new site users using our convenient tools, new members join a high quality network of thousands that care about their schools and neighborhoods. Most users have been allowed access only after approval by their community officers, so spam and fraud is kept to a minimum. Plus, users are not trapped into one municipality or jurisdiction—you have the option to join people from all areas of the DC Metro area, or just around home. Emergency communications can also be shared across the region. Planned communities or HOAs may also want to consider a separate site on our system to address civic issues or to access our great toolbox.

Low Cost to Free—Icing on the Cake

Officers won’t find another company that provides a site of similar quality for the price offered by Community Web—if they can, Community Web will match it. Better yet, if an area has an active community site, Community Web will likely GENERATE money for the volunteer group. Funds are not raised through advertising, but by working for your members. The Company assembles Group Buys that we call Neighborhood Coops where we put together a buying group for a given service, negotiate a great rate that saves your members 10 to 50%, and then donate 5% of our referral fee back to the association for the jobs generated by your members. This could make your site free, or even generate substantial proceeds. Everybody benefits together, and we do the research to save your members hours of their precious time.

Even if You Already Have a Site, It’s Easy to Join

We can integrate your site into the system in variety of ways. Contact us at info@communitywebinc.com for more information. The easiest ways take only a few seconds. Hosting and domain name are included in the annual fee.

There’s a reason our slogan is “Of the residents, By the residents, For the residents.” We’ve been helping volunteer groups since 1999 and host many sites for umbrella groups and local volunteer groups. See our site for more information. www.mycommunityweb.org.

For a list of full site functionality, click here: www.mycommunityweb.org/sitefunction.cfm

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