What is CommonGate?

CommonGate is an open network of theme-based communities (Gates) where people can create meaningful connections and share relevant & trusted content with friends, family and colleagues. These gates allow the posts to be categorized logically AND for people to belong to any or all of the communities in our network, simply and easily. We all have a lot of interests, so CommonGate allows you to explore, create and organize all those interests and connections in one place. Your place!

We call it Social Blogging, because CommonGate uses blogging technology in a communal way. Where most blogs come from one author or voice, the blog based communities in CommonGate contain posts from any of the members, a communal voice.



  • Create a customizable, personal profile page and Gate
  • Connect with friends and new people from all over the world
  • Post high res photos and create themed galleries to share
  • Join any Gate! Start your own!
  • Create Gates based around a particular theme or interest
  • IM your CommonGate friends any time, anywhere
  • Embed any videos to your forums or blogs
  • Blog, post, vote and comment anywhere within CommonGate
  • Bookmark favorites and posts, they all show in your profile
  • Build Mash-Ups using other social media sites
  • Browse and search for topics and people
  • Import and broadcast RSS feeds quickly and easily

GATES & COMMUNITIES

  • Gates are themed communities
  • Start your own Gate or join all the one's you like
  • Choose blog or forum style for your Gate's landing page
  • Choose your own layout from several templates
  • Add a description and external link to your Gate
  • Create a calendar to post relevant events
  • Each Gate has it's own tag cluster, hot posts and featured members
  • Post to any Gate of which you are a member
  • Every Gate has it's own RSS feed, subscribe or add it to your Gate!
  • Read, watch, post, vote and comment on things you like
  • Add polls/surveys to you posts
  • See content by Gate (theme)
  • Build a sense of community around things you have in Common
  • Your Gates are saved to your profile
  • Make private or public Gates
  • Use it for your business, group or organization
  • Start a digital magazine

FRIENDS & CONNECTIONS

  • Join a Gate and invite friends to join too!
  • Add friends to your list and build your network based on Common interests
  • COMMONGATE IS INTERNATIONAL!
  • Cool layout of friend's pics
  • Build your reputation by meeting, posting and connecting around CommonGate
  • Connect on Common interests by viewing tagged posts
  • Clean and easy to manage message system for sending and receiving
  • Send a message or add a friend
  • Leave comments on people's pages and get comments from others

PHOTOS & MEDIA

  • Easily browse and upload high res pics to your profile
  • Stylish picture frames for pics
  • Create galleries and publish them
  • Add other people's galleries to your page
  • Easily change out your profile pic from all your galleries
  • Use the CommonGate animated photo gallery tool
  • Upload mp3s and make shareable and safe flash audio
  • Embed video from allover the internet

BLOGS & FORUMS

  • Each Gate has it's own blog
  • Post to any Gate's blog and see the posts back in your profile as your blog
  • Embed videos to your forums or blogs
  • View your Gate as Forum or a Blog
  • Quick and easy posting around CommonGate

FEEDS & POSTS

  • Tag, comment vote and post to any Gate in all of CommonGate
  • See all your posts, Gates and favorites on your profile
  • Add any RSS feed to your Gate
  • Your Gate becomes an automatic RSS feed from all your latest posts
  • All your posts automatically generate a feed from posts around CommonGate
  • View your friend's posts in your profile
  • Guests can comment on any post you or anyone makes

TESTIMONIALS

"CommonGate is dead easy and effective... I like that fact that you can run around blogging in all different gates, and they are all collated in your user space." - John Tropea / Library Clips

"Commongate's basic setup is more in-line with the sybil-nature of all of us: we have multiple personalities. If we set up one blog, its too noisy. If we have multiple ones, its too schizoid. Its nice to view posts by topic or person, and if you like a person's posts on baseball be able to check out their posts about football." - David Wolber / Research 2.0



Commongate technology is versatile and can be used for other purposes as well, like virtual collaboration or your company blog / forums.
To inquire about other ways to use commongate please contact us here.