The often reported part of the Web 2.0 revolution is about technologies & presentation like Ruby on Rails and large bold font but it's also about; 

• Building - sustainable online communities
• Facilitating - user generated (and moderated) content.
• Increasing - traffic to a web site through these communities.

Online forums have been part of the web for a while. Many online and bricks and mortar businesses are realising the value of online communities.

Cleartext Systems delivers community based web sites with;

• Scaleable communities
• Robust forums solutions
• Integrated messaging; IM, email, chat
• RSS feeds, Podcasts and streaming video.

These community solutions that will integrate with your web presence and help you build large scale communities.

The leading product in this area is Jive Software's Clearspace X.

Clearspace X is enterprise software built from the ground up for companies to use when building an all-in-one customer community.

 

Clearspace X unifies community content like blogs, wikis and discussions and organizes them by the topics your community is interested in.

 

Now they can find what they're looking for and participate right away. Clearspace X has all the features that Clearspace does with important differences that make it perfect for an easy, out of the box experience.

Second Life 

Cleartext also has extensive experience in Second Life having many 1000's of hours building experience and a consultant on hand who lives and breaths 3D virtual worlds and social networks.

Visit the links below for more information.