Engage users in with dynamic 360 degree panoramic photos, and enable 360 'scenes' with compatible Virtual Reality goggles.

Collect and display stories, experiences and ideas as text, image or video. Run exciting user competitions.

Promote transparency and create a space where users can ask questions directly to a panel of respondents.

Conduct participatory budgeting style engagements and ask participants to spend a pool of dollars or points on a range of projects, programs or initiatives.

Ask a range of questions and have participants evaluate them on a likert-scale using this new question type of the Form tool.

Make the collection of participant information crystal clear by enabling a consent checkbox on all participation tools.

Involve citizens in participatory budgeting activities and get them to make hard choices by spending dollars or points.

Encourage transparency and invite citizens to ask questions. Setup panels of respondents.

Display an attractive list of PDF or word documents related to your project.

Provide answers to frequently asked questions.

Keep your users informed by publishing project updates and news items.

List important dates for your project including upcoming engagements, events and face to face activities.

Display a formatted list of relevant links to external websites and documents.

Let your visitors know where you are at in the process by displaying your timeline in an attractive, graphical format.

Create mailing lists by collecting user email addresses and integrated with third party services such as Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor and Vision 6.

Display clear, well presented contact information.

Help your visitors find projects that are relevant to them by filtering based on topic, location or keyword.

Make it easy for your visitors to share your content on social media.

Link your social media profiles to your site including Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Make it easy for visitors to navigate the sub-pages of a project.

Help organise your content into sections by displaying tabbed content.

Condense large amounts of content by placing it into expandable sections.

Create attractive feature tiles to highlight key content, link to pages with further information or download key documents.

Embed a range of third party tools and other code elements to your site to expand The HiVE's capabilities.

Add basic text, list, links and in-line images with basic formatting options.

Create visual interest by adding images and graphics.

Embed video content to your site via YouTube or Vimeo.

Highlight key facts or remarks and make them stand out.

Add headings to structure your content.

Create interactive buttons that link to important actions and content.

Add simple, styled web maps and style your spatial data (.kml and .shp).

Display a dynamic gallery of images and videos and display in three unique styles.

Display a carousel of highlighted images.

Create a horizontal line to break-up sections and add space between sections.

Show interactive 'before' and 'after' that allows users to 'swipe' between images to see the differences.

Engage users in with dynamic 360 degree panoramic photos, and enable 360 'scenes' with compatible Virtual Reality goggles.

Make adding content a breeze by dragging tools directly from the toolbox to the page and easily re-arrange content blocks.

Use the intuitive web builder to directly edit the content of the page you are looking at with no clunky back-end.

Create deeper user experiences by adding multiple pages to your project.

Choose from a range of flexible page layouts to ensure your content is presented as best as possible.

Make edits to your content behind the scenes, and publish when ready.

Speed up your content creation by copying re-usable content blocks to the clipboard.

Ensure your sites look great on any device regardless of its size or orientation.

Ensure your sites are inclusive with support for most modern web browsers.

Make your site your own by customising your site's look and feel.

Drive effective direct marketing by give your important projects their own, unique URLs.

Consolidate your projects into an integrated landing page to setup a one-stop-shop for all your engagements.

Organise and present multiple projects on a single page by creating hubs for related projects or teams, departments or agencies.

Assign a variety of user permissions including authoring and publishing rights to users for each project.

Enable review and approvals processes to ensure quality and consistency across multiple authors.

Facilitate internal review of draft projects prior to publishing.

Conduct targeted stakeholder engagement through secure, invite-only projects.

Easily transition the status of your project to control where it appears on the homepage.

Help users discover projects relevant to them by tagging 'topics' and 'locations' for each project.

Receive and send a range of automatic emails when key events are triggered.

Configure the emails sent from the system to send from your nominated email address.

Easily configure and launch projects through the simple, step-by-step launch wizard.

Create team entities such as departments and agencies to facilitate team-based reporting and project discovery.

Group related projects to facilitate multi-project reporting and discovery.

Control data and users through fine-grain premission control.

Keep track of every change to every page through the advanced versioning system, and revert back to previous versions if necessary.

Restrict data access to only users with appropriate permissions.

Keep track of multiple versions of documents, images and files.

Easily replace all instances of files linked on your page. Perfect for when a document has to be quickly updated.

Resize, crop, rotate and apply filters directly in the system to optimise imagery for the web.

Ensure your files are neatly organised through file folders.

Choose the level of member registration that is right for you and customise what information you collect.

Collect demographic and other personal information without the need for registration.

Explore and analyse your user membership.

Let your Members control their personal information and notification preferences.

Make it easy for visitors to join your online community by using existing Facebook credentials.

Automatically notify your Members when new projects are launched that match their interests.

Prompt contributors to become Members after leaving feedback.

Make it easy for your Members to subscribe to projects they are interested in and receive automatic updates.

Encourage Members to become 'Followers' after leaving feedback.

Send automated email notifications to your 'Followers' when news items are published.

With high redundancy systems in place, your site will always be accessible.

Ensure your users can access your site 99.9% of the time.

We garuntee our service performance with clear service level agreements.

Ensure your data is protected with daily backups.

Encrypt your data in transmission with enabled SSL.

Ensure your content is accessible to all visitors. We design our products to conform to WCAG standards (Level AA).

Dive deep into product features and capabilities and find the answers you are looking for in our comprehensive documentation.

Easily lodge and track issues at any time through our online Helpdesk service.

Get product tips and advice from our friendly and knowledgable account managers.

Store data in your home country to ensure privacy and compliance.

We find issues before they happen with around the clock monitoring of our server infrastructure.

We log key actions on the platform to help identify and troubleshoot issues.

Setup your site on a custom domain, or bring your own sub domain of your corporate site.

Access your data through our RESTful APIs and integrate into other services.

Bring live news feeds into other websites.

Pull your Members data into third party CRMs.

Grab information about your current engagements and create dynamic links on other websites.

Store or warehouse all your participation data outside of The HiVE.

Integrate with popular third part eDM services such as MailChimp, Campaign Monitor and Vision 6.

Our moderators vigilantly monitor your user generated content to keep it appropriate and clean.

Easily view moderation activity and quickly approve, reject and refer content.

Send a message to users when their contributions have been rejected to let them know why.

Filter profanity through a customisable banned words list.

Reduce SPAM through a range of methods such as 'honeypot' fields.

Access reports across multiple dimensions including Sitewide, 'Teams', Project Groups, and individual projects.

Filter reports based on date presets or use a custom date range.

View reporting results in attractive and dynamic data visualisations.

Export individual data visualisations in a range of image types for inclusion in reports and presentations.

Download the raw time-series data associated with each data visualisation to conduct in-depth analysis.

Export reports as beautifully designed, production-ready PDFs.

Export raw data in formatted Excel or un-formatted CSV file formats.