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Canadians and other peoples meet 'online' free for socially progressive networking
by Sarah Lopez
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My Canada is a progressive social network. |
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The Canadian has started-up 'My Canada'.
My Canada is a progressive social network. My Canada
is the only such totally free service of its kind that is
being offered by any Canadian newspaper. My Canada
seeks to help empower Canadians to work together in
order take their society back from interests that seek
to destroy Canada. This includes techniques of media
social control, dis-information and mass-manipulation.
This totally free service facilitates bringing
Canadians together toward progressive social change.
'My Canada' brings Canadians, and other
progressive-minded people internationally, who share
interests in human rights, social justice, anti-"Free
Trade" areas, universal public healthcare,
environmental protection, and other related
quality-of-living areas.
'My Canada' also
facilitates more casual social
networking among Canadians, and other peoples
internationally.
How does My Canada work?
Once members are registered with My Canada, they will
be able invite people they know to join their personal
or professional network. A member's friends will come
to 'My Canada' and invite their friends. As the My
Canada social network
grows, members will have more opportunities to
interact easily with people they know, make friends,
and use the My Canada Social Network with other
Canadians, and
other socially progressive peoples abroad.
What is the My Canada Social Network?
The My Canada Network consists of 1° friends (people a
member knows), 2° friends (friends of the member's
friends), and 3° friends (people who know friends of
the member's friends). A member's personal network on
My Canada will connect with people as far as 4° away.
The larger the personal network becomes, the more
useful and fun it will be and members will have access
to more listings, messages, Groups and events.
How do members use My Canada?
My Canada makes it easier for your members to
communicate with the people they know, as well as
friends of friends that they have not meet before.
Find another friend - Expand members' social
network by using the My Canada Social Network to find
and meet
new friends.
Dating - With My Canada E-friends, members can
find their
life partner or just someone to hang out with by
becoming part of the My Canada community.
Locate/List a Job - Browse through the listing
directory and post job listings created by people in
My Canada Social Network.
Get a roommate - Why live with a complete
stranger when members could live with the friend of a
friend?
Buy and sell stuff - Why buy stuff from an
unreliable source when members can get it from your
friend at a cheaper price? Members can also sell old
or unused goods to their friends who will cherish them
instead of selling it to someone they don't know.
Find places to go - Looking for some fun
activities to do during the weekend? With the MyCanada
Social Network, you can search for events in your area
or
even organize events for your friends to join.
Create, and manage groups of people - Use
the My Canada Social Network to organize existing
groups and/or
identify and draw together individuals who share a
common interest. These Groups can be focused on any
subject, affiliation, or activity. Book clubs, soccer
teams, and alumni groups can form their own Groups, as
well as family members, hobbyists, or professionals.
Blogging - Members can share their thoughts and
voice their own views on the web through their own
online blog be it a personal diary, a news page or a
political commentary.
Messaging - Our My Canada message system allows
members to send a note to friends, colleagues and
people who are listing items that interest them.
Members can communicate with their Groups via group
message boards and they can also schedule events to
inform everyone in their Group of an upcoming event.
Personal Organizer - My Canada comes with a
built-in calendar for members so that they can
organize their daily schedules and activities on the
go.
Answer life's questions - The My Canada Social Network is a valuable online resource that
contains most of the answers members need. Whether
they are seeking a dentist, an organic grocery, or an
inexpensive oil change, there is a very high chance
that someone in the member's network already has the
solution or expertise.
My Canada Member Features |
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General Member Features |
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- Password forget system
- Members can create their unique username during
registration for their personal profile URL (eg,
agoracosmopolitan.com/friends? username)
- Ability to edit personal profile, upload photos
to the photo albums, change account settings and many
more!
- NEW Security image code during registration to
prevent automated signups
- Ability to upgrade membership plans using paypal
payments
- NEW Recurring billing for paid membership plans
and member can view ltransactions by date range and
next billing period
- Members can see who has view their profiles
- Member voting system
- 5 most recently updated member profiles will be
listed on main page
- Members can edit and customize their profile
layout
- Members can upload multimedia content in their
profile which can be broadcast through online windows
streaming
- Allow members to cancel their account
- NEW Members can upload multiple photos to their
account
- Members can create a member ignore list
- Ability to bookmark a Group, listing or a member
- Write a testimonial for a friend
- Email notification which will send an email to
the member when there is a new action to be taken (i.e
invitations, new friend request, new testimonial and
more)
- View History - Members are able to view the
history of member profiles or groups they have
visited
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Groups |
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- Groups draw together individuals who share a
common interest. These groups can be focused on any
subject, affiliation, or activity. Book clubs, soccer
teams, and alumni groups can form their own Groups, as
well as family members, hobbyists, or professionals
- Members can create groups which will be listed
in Groups Directory
- Group Events - Members can create a group
event
- Discussion Board - Enable members to post
messages in a group
- File sharing system
- Manage Group - This feature allows a
member to manage the group type (public, moderated or
private) and change other settings such as group URL,
title, description and category
- View the most popular and newest groups in the
directory
- Ability to search for groups by keywords
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Events |
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- Ability to browse event categories
- Members can search for an event by keywords,
category, dates degrees and distance
- Ability to create new public / private events
- Event creator can specify the max number of
guests each member can bring and allow comments by
members
- Built-in RSVP for each event: participating
members can reply with yes / no / maybe and specify number
of guest they are bringing
- Event creator can invite friends in existing
network or enter the email addresses for non-members
to join event
- Members can now add events to their calendar
- NEW Event creator can export guest list in
excel. The details include name, username, number of
guest attending, status, ticket ID
- Option for generating a unique ticket ID for
attendees
- NEW Unique event URL (i.e
agoracosmopolitan.com / friends / events/? username)
- NEW Members now have the option to view events
posted by them as well as events they are attending
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Messages |
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- Compose new messages just like any ordinary
emails and send them to the member's network of
friends
- View inbox/sent/saved messages
- Bulletin Board: Bulletin board messages created
by a member will be broadcast to al friends
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Search |
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- Search for new friends and increase the member's
network of friends
- Basic Search: search by first name, last name,
email, distance and degrees
- Advance Search: enhance search functions where
members can search for friends by age, schools,
gender, occupation, interest, company and many more!
Members have the ability to display only friends with
photos and sort search results
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Listings |
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- Members can create listings which will be
posting in the Listings Directory
- Members can select the category where their
listings will be posted and have the ability to upload
photos, select the period of the listing (up to 30
days), make the listing anonymous. Members also have
the ability to publish a listing to their groups
(which only group members can view) or selected
network of friends
- Ability to search listings by keywords, category
and subcategory, distance and degrees
- Members can notify friends through email about
their new listings
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e-vite |
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- Member can invite friends to join their network
- Support for multiple invitation
- Members can view the invitations they have sent
to their friends and its status (whether their friends
have signed up)
- Member can now use tags to display either normal
invite or affiliate URL
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Blog |
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- Members can start their own online blog with a
unique blog URL
- Blog search function
- Ability to create blog categories
- Ability to edit/delete blog entires
- Allows customization of blog layout such as
custom header/css, background settings including
music/image, blog font, color, time format
- Built-in HTML editor for blog entries
- RSS 2.0 support
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Forums |
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- Members can view all topics and forum stats
(number of post/ topics and last post)
- NEW Member can search for forum posts
- NEW Members can now be set as forum moderators
by admin and have additional privileges to edit/delete
existing postings
- Ability to create new forum topics and post
replies
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Chat |
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- Ability to chat with other members
- Members can select chat rooms to talk to other
members
- Members can send private message or chat
invitation to selected members
- Ability to configure chat rooms (set display
layout and sound controls)
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Calendar |
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- Members can have their own personal online
calendar
- Ability to view/add new events
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Instant Messenger |
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- Members can send/reply IM to friends or other
members
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HotorNot |
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- Image rating system where images of members are
randomly displayed
- Show top 25 men and women
- Show most rated men and women
- Show men and women by age
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