Empower your Community
With a community portal, you give your community a secure digital home. Everyone involved can work together in self-managed spaces, make their activities visible and network with each other. Whether as a social intranet for your organization or as a citizen platform for an entire region - together we will take the effectiveness of your community to the next level. Open source software made in Germany makes it possible.
What makes our portals special?
Community management made easy
We take care of installation, hosting and updates (SaaS). This means you can concentrate on communicating with your users and establishing new connections. We support you with training and support.
All tools in one place
Whether cloud, chat, video conference, calendar or forum – our portals bundle these and many more features on one page. Your users only need one profile to collaborate and network effectively.
More visibility for your community
All groups and projects have an information page on which they can present themselves to the outside world. Other users can browse through the map of your portal or search specifically to make contact and network.
Tailor-made for you
We adapt the functionality and design of your white label portal to your wishes. We can develop or integrate additional features if required. The domain of the website is freely selectable. If required, we also offer your portal as an Android and iOS app.
Your data in safe hands
With our GDPR-compliant portals, which are hosted on German servers, you retain control over your data. Our open source software and internal processes also meet strict security requirements, which is confirmed by a TÜV certificate (ISO 27001).
Co-operative & oriented towards the common good
More important to us than profit are the common good and our values: sustainability, digital sovereignty and transparency. That is why we are a Cooperative. As a portal partner, you can become a member and help determine our course.
Setting up a portal
In the centre:
THE USERS
- Users are the central actors of the portal.
- They can be imported or register themselves.
- Users can then fill out their profile, match with other users or groups, browse the portal’s content and, of course, create new content themselves.
- Users can have different permissions.
- There is no upper limit for the number of users on your portal.
Getting together:
GROUPS & PROJECTS
- Users come together in groups to communicate and work together. They have access to a variety of tools↓ to select which will be displayed together on the group dashboard.
- All groups have a Microsite, through which members can communicate to the outside world who they are and what they do.
- Groups are self-managed by its members. You can have an unlimited number of members. Likewise, a user can be a member of as many groups as they want. The number of groups on the portal is also unlimited.
- Groups can contain projects . A project has the same functions as a group and therefore functions like a sub-group. By nesting groups and projects, organizational structures can be mapped in the portal.
All united:
THE COMMUNITY
- In addition to collaboration in groups and projects, our portals also enable users to network, obtain information and make their own activities visible.
- In the Forum all users of the portal are united. Here they can share news and events with each other or exchange knowledge and experience.
- On the Map , the portal's groups and projects are displayed, and depending on the visibility settings, the user profiles are also displayed. Here, users can search through the content and filter by topic to find out about exciting activities and to make contact.
- Optionally, users can also use a matching tool with which they can find like-minded users or groups and projects.
We would be happy to introduce you to these different facets of a portal in more detail in a live demo.
Online collaboration made easy
In groups and projects, users of your portal can use the following functions:
Dashboard
File hosting and sharing (Nextcloud)
Real-time collaboration on files (Etherpad, Collabora)
Team messenger (RocketChat)
Video calls (BigBlueButton)
Calendar
News
Appointment polls
Surveys
To-do lists
Requests and offers
Custom links to external tools
Kanban Boards (Beta)
Whiteboards (Beta)
Microsite
Map of members
Unlimited members
Self-administration
In addition to these collaboration tools, our community portals offer numerous functions that allow users to network with each other and make their activities visible.
Made...
For Organisations
Whether association, umbrella organization, foundation or company:
- Connect your members to a community, make them visible on a map
- Give them the tools they need to collaborate securely online in their teams
- Promotes knowledge exchange and networking
- Keep full control over your data
- Grow as much as you want – your portal grows with you
- Create a login for everything with your organization portal – fully branded & customized
For cities and regions
For smart cities and all those who want to become one:
- Enter into dialogue with your citizens
- Empowers them to participate and help shape
- Offer your clubs and initiatives a secure platform, make them visible on a map
- Give those involved the tools they need for their work every day – bundled on one platform
- Promotes knowledge exchange and networking
- Rely on GDPR-compliant, secure and proven open source software from Germany
Test now
Free, easy & non-binding
We would be happy to show you the structure and functions of our community portal upon request personally in a video call. But you can also test it on your own at wechange.de.
wechange.de is one of more than 20 community portals that we operate. Unlike the other portals, however, wechange.de does not operate on behalf of an organization or municipality, but rather we ourselves as a cooperative offer the platform directly and freely accessible to end users.
You can register for free on wechange.de to register and then a Create group. You can then invite your colleagues to the group to test the collaboration tools together. Or take a look at the Map, which other groups and projects there are in your area or on your topics on wechange.de.
Most functions of our community portals you can test it immediately on wechange.de. We will be happy to activate the few exceptions for you, if you let us know.
Our Services
Product introduction
- In an initial workshop, we will discuss your goals and together determine your requirements for the portal.
- Before the launch, we will provide you with a test system on which you can try everything out and express requests for changes.
- We train you on how to best support your community. We also offer training for your users.
Hosting & Support
- So that you don't have to worry about installing and maintaining the software yourself, we offer you our cloud hosting - GDPR compliant, with green electricity, at fair prices.
- We are constantly developing the software, closing security gaps and keeping your portal up to date with regular updates.
- If something still doesn't work, our support team is here to help you.
Feature development
- As standard, we adapt our white label portals to your needs and design specifications.
- Additionally, individual extensions are possible. Just talk to us.
- Thanks to our interfaces, the integration of third-party systems is also possible, e.g. via Single Sign On.
Our pricing model
Pay only for what you need
The costs for a community portal consist of one-time setup costs and monthly costs for hosting, support and updates. The amount of these two costs depends on which tools are integrated into your portal. If you do not need Nextcloud, Rocket.Chat, BigBlueButton, a WordPress landing page or the iOS and Android app, the costs are reduced.
Grow as much as you want
The costs depend not on how many users, groups or projects your portal has. All of this is basically unlimited. So you can scale without stopping without incurring additional costs.
Benefit from the feature development of others
We are constantly developing or integrating new functions at the request of our portal partners. If a portal partner commissions and finances such a feature development, everyone benefits. We then activate the new function on all other portals - if requested. This solidarity approach means that all portals are constantly improving.
Would you like to learn more?
Contact us to receive further information and materials about our products.
MokWi is the digital platform for sustainable and social projects in the Kiel region. With MokWi, we tackle topics and tasks from the areas of life, mobility, business and science that do not stop at the city or district borders. MokWi helps us as initiators to get an overview of what is currently affecting people in the region. We are committed to ensuring that citizens can use digital support to advocate for sustainability and social issues. On MokWi, projects and events gain visibility, actors can network and discuss common ideas and challenges, and project teams can organize themselves in the work area easily and free of charge.
Kim Strupp Head of the MokWi project