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Create a consistent visual experience right across your platform, using Hivebrite’s advanced branding tools and visual customization.
Embed your organization’s imagery, color palette & typography allowing your audience to instantly associate with your brand.
Go further with your branding choices with gradients, dynamic assets and more creative visual customization.
Your mobile app is fully branded, personalized and visually distinct, downloaded as your own app.
Build consistent digital media through Hivebrite’s intuitive content creation tools, maintaining visual identity across different media.
Our advanced design interface enables creative design choices to maximize impact in campaigns and custom content.
An easy-to-use HTML designer lets you create rich and visually appealing content posting across your platform.
Setup standard and custom templates that help you maintain consistency and curate content from within your community.
Extend the visibility, reach and recall of your platform, and enable users to act as content and community advocates.
Your platform’s URL can be set to whatever domain name you own, fully leveraging searches and dovetailing with your website.
As well as the private community, you have a public facing front end to share selected content, raise awareness and drive sign-up.
Built-in social sharing buttons are augmented by SEO that is optimized at both a sitewide and individual level.
Match your community’s structure and tone to embody your identity and ensure your members feel a sense of belonging.
Both back and front office are available with a variety of language options, and postings can be live translated with built in integration.
Enforce end user terms to ensure that member behavior adheres to guidelines, norms, and expectations that reflect your community mission and values.
Ensure your brand voice is reflected across the system dialogue with extensively customizable naming and tagging.
With Hivebrite’s unparalleled customization, we power communities across diverse industry sectors. Learn more about how we can seamlessly align with your unique requirements.
Small and large enterprises turn to Hivebrite to transform their engagement with their unique audiences. Our versatile platform facilitates knowledge sharing, strategic alignment, and nurtures members’ sense of belonging.
Charities, foundations, NGOs, and government organizations turn to Hivebrite to revolutionize their engagement with donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries. Our adaptable platform encourages knowledge sharing, drives mission impact, and cultivates a strong sense of belonging among members.
From schools to universities, Hivebrite facilitates the transformation of simple connections into vibrant learning communities among students, educators, parents, and alumni. Our dynamic platform nurtures enduring relationships, spurs generous giving, and cultivates thriving research hubs, powering your institution’s advancement.
Collectives and associations of all sizes turn to Hivebrite to optimize member experiences and ignite shared interests. Our versatile platform nurtures professional communities, stimulates collective growth, and mobilizes shared values for social impact.
“Hivebrite enables us to sustain and scale our community and virtual engagement strategies to continue supporting our members as best as possible.”
“Hivebrite’s Mentoring Module was one of the key reasons we selected Hivebrite as our community engagement platform.”
“The platform and its features offer everything we need and more to engage our members and keep them coming back.”
“Centralizing our community and mentoring program on one intuitive platform improves our members’ experience. The UX and UI of the platform are great!”
“Hivebrite’s platform has made parts of my working day 110% easier by empowering Fulbrighters to connect, exchange, and collaborate with each other.”
“Hivebrite’s platform is completely customizable. All visual elements in the community match JA Worldwide’s visual identity.”
“With Hivebrite, Notre Dame was able to set up a COVID-19 response fundraising campaign in under half an hour that was seen by over 100,000 potential donors worldwide.”
“Hivebrite provides a forum for our portfolio companies to quickly and easily connect with each other to discuss challenges they’ve seen and how to solve them.”
“The online platform allows mentees to browse mentor profiles, choosing a match that feels right for them.”
“We've been able to develop engagement opportunities, a consolidated resource and funding database, and a robust storytelling program because of the features [Hivebrite] offered.”
“With Hivebrite, we have built a vibrant, caring community that advocates for customers and drives customer satisfaction and retention.”
“Since launching with Hivebrite, the Girl Up community has transformed communication and connection for Girl Up members.”
“With Hivebrite, we’ve created a dynamic platform that not only supports our organizational goals but also fosters meaningful relationships among our members.”
Hivebrite is a comprehensive community management platform that can be customized entirely to mirror each organization’s visual identity.
Organizations including Roche, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Aspen Institute, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, and U.C. Davis trust Hivebrite to power their fully branded private communities.
Read more about Hivebrite customers and their community successes.
Having an online brand community can significantly impact member engagement. Online brand communities foster a sense of belonging, facilitate interactions among members, and enhance member loyalty and advocacy. Online brand communities influence member engagement in the following ways:
Empirical studies have shown that online brand communities can lead to increased customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy, which drive higher engagement levels. For example, a study by Muniz and O’Guinn (2001) found that brand communities create shared consciousness, rituals, and a sense of moral responsibility among members, which enhances engagement. Another study by Algesheimer, Dholakia, and Herrmann (2005) found that identification with a brand community positively influences community engagement behaviors and brand loyalty.
In summary, online brand communities significantly impact member engagement through various mechanisms, including enhanced interaction, a sense of belonging, exclusive benefits, feedback opportunities, recognition, emotional support, and influence on purchase behavior.
The top characteristics of an online brand community that contribute to its success and member engagement include:
By focusing on these characteristics, brands can build strong, engaged, and loyal online communities that drive sustained member engagement and support business objectives.