Benefits of Online Community Portals

There are number of community portals based on the place of origin or native place formed especially for people who are residing together at some place or an area.

There can be number of reasons that people migrate from their places of birth to other regions and people having common background prefer living and dining together and thus form a community.  This community phenomenon has gone online. Now there are online community portals today where people from similar background or place of origin are the sole targets.

What is an online community?

An online community can be defined as a virtual community whose members have some interest or background in common and these interact with each other via internet. Generally there are very simple steps to get registered as a member and once you become the member, you can avail all the benefits or facilities offered by the online community site. Like one can find in Michigan, Mediterranean dining through online community formed for people living in Michigan from Middle East.

There are many benefits of these portals for the members who have joined it.

1. These sites can help search places to live. One can even find a roommate from the same native place at these online community sites. There are many rental properties listed on such sites. Some even provide properties to buy. These properties are either mentioned by the people from the same community making business for themselves or it can be from outside but with the motive to help the members.

2. The community portal is a critical part of economic development effort. Such community portals also work as recruitment tool for families and knowledge economy workers, business owners and entrepreneurs. These portals have small job openings with the intent to help the members. The community portal also forms as a platform to many to put advertisements of their business. Either these are also from the same community or they have business which would interest the members of this community.

3. The portal act as the source of information. These sites have all the latest information that can be of help to the members. The site also provides all the details of any upcoming events if any. These events can be of interest for the people who are outside the community also to generate business.

4. The portal helps find areas of interests like restaurants, bakeries and even groceries and other available and required services. Like one can find Mid Eastern restaurant in MI with the help of such online community portals.

In short it can be said that these online portals based on the native places or place of origin serves as a home away from home for many.

Author's Note

The author owns a Mid Eastern restaurant in MI. He takes the help of such online community portals in Michigan to promote her business. In Michigan, Mediterranean dining is all about her restaurant. Read his articles to know more.