Community Media®
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By thecitizensmedia on Apr 10 2009, last modified on Sep 27 2010.

Building a Model for Community Media®

Uniting innovative technology specifically designed to embrace community, authenticity & equal opportunity with a personal approach, CM sites enable communities to provide the resources to make local business more visible, educate community and encourage new economic opportunities to significantly gain in strength.

By associating all profiles, users, advertisers and websites directly with a specific community, while making it possible to share content between multiple sites and enabling all to link in their own customized site, CM has been specifically developed with Community Media® in mind.

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Creating Vibrant Communities

One of the principle goals of The Citizens Media® is to enable and inspire leaders from the heart of communities around the world to collaborate through interactive online media.

Linking governments, business and citizens through interactive online media, Community Media® is about building connectivity between all citizens for the creation of vibrant, sustainable communities, increased quality of life and economic prosperity.

The resultant flow of information delivered from the grassroots will help communities:

Maximize on local resources
Share ideas that foster both personal and community prosperity
Identify core needs

Collaboration of Interconnected Sites

CM enables users on any site in any network of affiliated sites to share content with ease, while allowing them to create their own online presence promoting distinct values, a business or specialized niche - whatever suits their need.

Building Community Networks
Enabling communities to share site content in this way encourages cultural diversity, saves resources, promotes local business and enables citizens to effectively build on innovative ideas.

Making local businesses more visible, creating community vitality and gathering valuable information defining unique community identity, provides a powerful means to bridge communication within and between communities.

The Citizens Media believes that interactive Community Media® has the potential to significantly impact prosperity throughout the world.

Example of Potential Community Network

Phase 1: Whistler, BC

Collaborated community content brought together on a single multilingual hub.
Links & affiliate referral systems promote local business by connecting to external sites.
Each unique community hub is integrated within CM's centralized search portal.