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.

Seamlessly integrating a robust content management system with a full-featured ecommerce platform is a bit tricky proposition the web world but with T-shirt.ca, Raincity bridged the erstwhile gaps between art, commerce and usability in this full ecommerce implementation.

T-shirt.ca's journey began with extensive strategy planning resulting in ecommerce features including multiple combinations of products, pricing variations based on volume and different gateways for individuals and wholesale customers who can also order silkscreening services.