CommunityPath.com More Than Doubles Its Base in Three Month Period; Adds New Features to Enhance Its Community Intranet Service.Business Editors REDONDO BEACH Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 CommunityPath.com, the most advanced community intranet, has reached a company milestone with 600 communities and more than 175,000 households now using the web site for neighbor-to-neighbor communication. The company has more than doubled its user base -- from 250 to 600 communities -- in the past three months as homeowner associations and property managers embrace the easy and secure information sharing See data conferencing. and communication tool created by CommunityPath. "This has been a tremendous period of growth," notes Eric Weber Weber, river, United States Weber (wē`bər), river, c.125 mi (200 km) long, rising in the Uinta Mts., N central Utah, and flowing north and northwest to join the Ogden River at Ogden. The combined stream flows to the Great Salt Lake. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CommunityPath. "With our current pace of community sign-ups, we are firmly on track to meet our goal to reach 300,000 households by the first quarter of '01." Described as the "online front porch porch Roofed structure, usually open at front and sides, projecting from the face of a building and used to protect an entrance. If colonnaded, it may be called a portico. ," CommunityPath.com offers free, password protected, customized web sites to homeowner and other residential associations and property managers in all 50 states. The private intranet is a tool for communities to publish and exchange information online. CommunityPath.com association members tap into their community's intranet and arrive at a customized and fresh-daily home page that features association news and events, message boards and community calendars supplemented by CommunityPath with additional information of interest such as home safety tips and decorating ideas. CommunityPath is continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. adding and upgrading to keep the sites fresh, fun and useful. "We poll and contact our community site managers regularly to find out how they use the site and what new features and services interest them," adds Weber. Recently added features include: "Newsletters Online" and "Broadcast Email" allow a community's site manager to send community newsletters and broadcast email to all members on CommunityPath.com with one easy click of a button. With these features, residents get important, up-to-the-minute information and news about their communities on a 24-hour basis. Several new features are planned for the next release. With the "Digital Photo Album" communities can easily post photos from recent events so neighbors can log-on and check out the action they might have missed at the block party, softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' game or other community-sponsored activity. Parents will be able to use the "Babysitter babysitter A person, often an intelligent family member, who stays by the bedside of a Pt requiring mechanical ventilation, and guards for equipment malfunctions or other problems Referral" to search for a sitter in their neighborhood that matches their babysitting needs, searching by age, experience, availability, etc. CommunityPath.com is an intranet provider that uses interactive technology to enable residents, neighborhood associations A neighborhood association is a group of residents, sometimes organized as 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, who take on problems or organize activities within a neighborhood. An association may have elected leaders and voluntary or mandatory dues. and local organizations to create community-specific sites that increase communication opportunities and information flow within distinct regions. The service is available in all 50 states and can be accessed via the world wide web. |
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