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Here are some of the features of the 1USA Community-Builder software: 

 

Module Name Description
Account Login Allows users to login to the portal... and access 'private pages or files that you haven't made available to the public.
Announcements This module renders a list of announcements.   Each announcement includes title, text and a "read more" link.  Each announcement can be set to automatically start or expire on specific dates.
Banners Banner advertising is managed through the Vendors module on the Admin tab.  Website Administrators can select the number of banners to display as well as the banner type.
In addition to having Announcements, you can setup Banners to display randomly throughout your website to promote something unique... or a special offer.
Blog Blog Module allows people to create Blogs.  Members must be promoted to a role that allows posting blogs.  Facebook, Linked-In etc are nothing more than blogs in a community.  1USA also has a blogging community, a Classified Ad community, etc.
AmazonRelatedProducts Display relevant Amazon products on certain web pages and make a commission.
Weather Generates a 3-day weather report for a given location.
Chat This module allows users to chat with other users on the website.
Contacts This module renders contact information for a group of people, for example a project team. Contacts includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the Contacts data stored in the database. 
Fairly restrictive. Better to place Contact Names & Phone numbers onto a regular page using the Text module.
Content Dejour HtmlText module which displays rich text content based upon the current month, day of month or year, day of week, category, or start and end timespan.  Great for seasonal or monthly content.
Documents Renders a list of viewable or downloadable documents, including links to browse or download the document. Documents includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the information about the Documents (for example, a friendly title) stored in the SQL database.
Events Renders single and recurring events and includes Master and Sub Calendars with TimeZone Adjustment, Event Enrollment, and Email Reminders.
Expandable Text/Html A ExpandableTextHtml module.  If you have a long page, this can hide details until the person clicks to see the details.
FAQs FAQs allow you to manage a list of Frequently Asked Questions and their corresponding Answers.
Feed Explorer Allows users to browse RSS feeds using a tabbed user interface
Feedback Feedback allows visitors to send messages to ANY authorized recipient.  Very powerful.
Forum Forums are also called NewsGroups.
Google Adsense Allows you to create Google Adsense ads on your site
Guestbook A basic guestbook module allowing users to leave comments on your website.  Should be limited to visitors who can be trusted, otherwise it could get out of hand quickly.
Help The Help Module renders tutorials in a structured manner and allows for easy navigation of the tutorials.
IFrame The HTML iframe creates an inline frame that contains another document, which can be located on your or any other website.
Links Renders a list of hyperlinks. Links includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the Links data stored in the SQL database.
Map Displays a map of a location.  Useful for providing driving directions to your office.
Media

This module renders Media files. The module looks at the file extension and create the correct tag block to render the media in the browser.  Media types are movies, mp3 etc.

News Feeds (RSS) News Feed allows you to aggregate a collection of syndicated news feeds in Rich Site Summary (RSS) format and render the results in a single sorted list.
Reports The Reports Module allows users to quickly display data retrieved from many data sources. An extensible architecture allows the use of custom Data Sources and Visualization systems to display data from any tabular data source, in many ways.  Requires custom programming.
Repository A File Library of any type of file you can imagine.  A file/object repository module that includes skinning and community features like comments and user ratings.
Repository Dashboard A Dashboard companion module for the Repository Module. Lists categories and top n lists such as most downloaded, latest files, etc.
Search Input Provides the ability for visitors to search for keywords.
Search Results Displays the search results.
Store Account Small simple Shopping Cart.  The Store Account module provides customer account, cart and checkout functionality.
Store Admin The Store Admin module provides the administration interface for the Store.
Store Catalog The Store Catalog module provides product lists and product detail functionality.
Store Menu The Store Menu module provides the menu containing product categories.
Store Mini Cart The Store Mini-Cart module provides the small summary of the customer's cart items.
Survey Survey allows you to create custom surveys to obtain feedback from public visitors to your website, or can be restricted to those who have Registered or attained a higher access level on your website.
Tell-A-Friend A TellAFriend module
Text/HTML You will use this 99% of the time to add content to your website. This module renders a block of HTML or Text content. The Html/Text module allows authorized users to edit the content either inline or in a separate administration page. The content is stored in the database. According to module settings, tokens can be used, that get replaced during display.
Image Gallery Display images from Directory with next/previous controls.
Use other software (provided) to resize all the photos in a directory to the same size, then you upload those photos into a subdirectory on the server, then you use this module to provide the maneuvering controls.
Does not have Voting/Comments features of other similar software, like the Ultra Gallery software, below.
Media Gallery Build image galleries or movie galleries.
UMG-Generic Presentation Generic presentation pack for Ultra Media Gallery
UMG-MediaImporter This module allows you to import or transfer albums or photos from somewhere to Ultra Media Gallery.
UMG-PhotoCalendar This module generates a day or month calendar view for your photos.
UMG-PurchasedItems This module allows your visitors to download purchased stuff.
UMG-QuickRate This module allows your visitors to quickly rate and comment a photo.
UMG-Search Dedicated search module for Ultra Media Gallery.
UMG-ShoppingCart This module allows your visitors to add some priced stuff to the shopping cart and proceed to checkout, it must be placed on same page of Ultra Media Gallery.
UMG-TopAlbums This module allows your visitors to quickly rate and comment a photo.
UMG-TopComments This module allows you to build a list of recently posted comments or highest reated comments from one of your Ultra Media Gallery instance.
UMG-TopPhotos This module allows you to build a list of recently added photos, highest rated photos, or random photos from one of your Ultra Media Gallery instance.
User Account Allows users to register and manage their account.
User Defined Table User Defined Table module allows editors to create a custom data table for managing tabular information with individually defined fields (columns). Users can be allowed (by security roles) to add, edit or delete own or all users data. Besides default grid rendering, data display can be optionally formatted using XSL stylesheets.
UsersOnline Users Online allows you to see who is online in your portal, and see membership counts
WeatherConditionsService Displays the current weather conditions at a location.
Whats New? This module allows users to view a list of the most recently added or updated content. Administrators can control the maximum (and minimum) number of items to display as well as the date range to search.
Wiki A Wiki is an environment where different people can collaberate and create a Knowledge Management Systems, or they can add distasteful comments. One person may be able to change another person's comments / advice. See http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki for details.
XML/XSL This powerful module queries XML Data from a file or an http request, transforms the XML data using an XSL transformation and returns the result back to the user.  Requires custom programming.

Add Announcements on your website quickly and easily.

Add a Blog on your website quickly and easily.

Display advertising banners on your website quickly and easily.

Display local weather on your website quickly and easily.

Have a Chat page on your website quickly and easily.

Display Content Dejour - which displays rich text content based upon the current month, day of month or year, day of week, category, or start and end timespan.  Great for seasonal or monthly content.

Display Events - single and recurring events and includes Master and Sub Calendars with TimeZone Adjustment, Event Enrollment, and Email Reminders.

FAQs allow you to easily manage a list of Frequently Asked Questions and their corresponding Answers.

Feedback allows visitors to send messages to ANY authorized recipient.  Very powerful.

Easily add a Forum or Newsgroup onto your website.

Add Google Adsense onto all of your web pages.  Allows you to create Google Adsense ads on your site.

Add a Guestbook application onto your website.  A guestbook allows users to leave comments on your website.  Inappropriate comments can be deleted.