Six Apart Announces Availability of Movable Type Community Solution

Six Apart announced the commercial release of the Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS), a package of social media features built on top of the Movable Type 4 platform. The Movable Type Community Solution is a complete, out-of-the-box social media solution that enables the deployment of online communities. Site owners can now use Movable Type to power entire websites, including blogs, social communities, member profiles, forums, recommendations and ratings, content management, podcasts and rich media, under a unified management system. MTCS is a solution for media companies that want to power communities, encourage user-generated content, and manage web publishing from a single, scalable application. Advanced reporting and management tools designed for site administrators provide management of content and assets, permissions and user management, and fine-grained controls that allow site managers to develop and maintain a community. Designers can customize every part of the site's experience: templates and design, login and registration forms, email notifications, and user profiles. The Community Solution extends the Movable Type platform with advanced user registration with support for the OpenID authentication standard, member profiles for registered members which list all of a user's contributions to a site as well as customizable fields, ratings and recommendations to let your users promote their favorite content, member blogging, allowing any registered user to submit site content, and integrated commenting and profiles between forums, communities, and blogs. The Movable Type Community Solution is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish and may be purchased by contacting Six Apart. MTCS comes bundled with one year of support, which includes guaranteed response times, access to an account manager and support personnel, and all updates. http://www.movabletype.com/