Web communities often seem geared for leisure time activities rather than "getting stuff done" in the business realm. However, social networking sites are at least as useful in the business world as for interacting with hobby affinity groups. The China Access site is demonstrative of using the power of a web community to establish international business opportunities through networking and knowledge sharing.

The Placeblogger site puts social content in a geographic and chronological context allowing easy aggregation of blogs about anyplace. By geo-locating blogs and other content, readers can easily explore any place ... somewhere you are now - or somewhere you were, or a place you might be soon.

When Bryght first launched "ready to go" Drupal hosting back in 2004, there wasn't anyone else offering the same sort of product - or commercial Drupal products at all. With two fundamentally different products (shared hosting and virtual private hosting) aimed towards quite different markets with very different needs, the messaging needed to be clear and targeted.

When this venerable publisher of romance novels came to Raincity Studios, they arrived with a deep understanding of their customers and already had a vision of a participatory community in mind.

The web is a powerful tool - you know that. When a top-quality, professional design is used for political and social purposes, the result can be profound as education and information are distributed with seeming ease.