CommonFloor.com

Knitting people together

Anita Rajavelan's BTM flat is in an apartment complex that has over four hundred families, but she can count the number of neighbours she knows in her fingers. And she is not alone in this. Nowadays people have less time - and therefore even lesser inclination - to know their neighbours better. Can this be redressed, for a healthy and regular interaction with our neighbours develops a better bonding in the neighbourhood? CommonFloor.com strives to do precisely that. It enables families and individuals living in an apartment complex to get to know each other better, come together in various ways and collaborate for activities, share books and other durable goods, do car-pooling and a lot more.

Know your locality
At CommonFloor, you can share information, knowledge and resources dealing with your day-to-day social life. You can access and contribute information about your locality, rate and review local services. Find new restaurants and shopping offers. Stay updated with upcoming events and moview show timings in the city. Access online notice board, suggestion box and complaint filing. Post buy-and-sell items. Send FREE SMS notifications to fellow residents. These are just a sample of online delivery services available on CommonFloor.

CommonFloor is an effort to improve the quality of lives of people living in residential localities better with the help of technology. On CommonFloor, you can celebrate festivals, organize parties, meet people who share your interests, make your interaction more open and friendly.

The dotcom also addresses privacy concerns of users. It provides private, password protected online space to members of residential communities to enhance their societal interaction.

Is CommonFloor similar to a social networking website? No, insist the promoters. According to them, CF aims to facilitate establishment of familiarity between residents and promote social activities. It provides specially crafted, knowledge management tools for information pertaining to day-to-day issues. Residents can use CF to access information local to the residence, communicate with neighbors, post notices & classifieds, rate and review local retailers, restaurants, & delivery services, and to do a lot more. It powers the user with the information about residents, community and the locality.

Is there any social hacking threat? The website claims to protect their network from all sorts of social hacking. Your information can only be viewed by the people in your complex.

How can I join it?
An official release stated that presently it's an invite-only service, and you need an activation code to register at CommonFloor.

If the apartment complex you are living in is a member of CommonFloor, you should receive your activation code through email by the association of your residential community. Apartment complexes that are not listed with them can contact them for registration.

For further details contact 9886083290 or visit. www.CommonFloor.com