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Affinity Hub
See also: Affinity Hubs

Affinity Hubs are specialized, web-based relationship networks where hub members have a common interest or practice, i.e. an alumni association, a professional practice or sports affiliation. Hub members exchange information with one another and with content consumers related to their common affiliation. Members may use their hub-generated website to initiate and manage a stand-alone web presence for their business, special interest or club.

An Affinity Hub is more than a social network. They focus on niche markets rather than providing a "catch-all" network similar to MySpace.com or LinkedIn.com or Plaxo.com. Social networks, such as these, tend to build social webs based on relationships. Affinity Hubs are built on a common interest or business niche.

Affinity Hubs go beyond simply providing members the ability to post blogs, participate in message boards and chats and create a generalized web-page. While Affinity Hubs also allow these features, they go further than standard community features and functions. Affinity Hubs provide self-managed web-sites for the non-technical person allowing hub members to publicly publish articles, post news, upload photos, audio and video, etc. while also participating in a niche community. Affinity Hub member-websites can be browsed to internally within the hub or externally using a direct URL. Essentially, Affinity Hub member can independently build their own user-base while also separately participating in the hub community.

Good examples of Affinity Hubs are: www.networkforgood.com - a web community for non-profit organizations www.workoutranch.com - a web community for personal trainers, providing personal trainers with a unique web-presence www.360Flair.com - a community for professional models and actors where members are also provided a website at their own URL www.onemodelplace.com - similar to 360Flair.com, it is a community for professional models and actors where members are also provided a website

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