The community section of BoomTribe.com is focused on interaction between BoomTribe members and our online platform provides many ways in which people can find and find out about each other.

Message Boards

The heart of BoomTribe.Com, like many virtual communities, is its message boards. Our message boards are run by a team of volunteer Community Leaders (aka Moderators) and include all the standard features that people have come to expect from a forum platform.

Members can control how many threads and messages are displayed per page and members can choose to be emailed whenever someone responds to their messages, helping to ensure that conversations will continue and your forum will thrive.

Use smiley faces when posting to better express yourself and include an icon with your post to mark its type (users can then sort threads based on this type). An icon displays whether the author is currently online or offline.

Members can perform text searches across all forums and jump instantly to the correct place. They can easily see additional information about the authors of given posts, including how many times they have posted and where.

In the future, we plan to introduce forums are only accessible to paid members, although these will probably be more business-oriented topics, like possibly a music industry forum moderated by a real entertainment lawyer.

Look out for our unique Caribbean smileys, coming soon!!

Newsletters

BoomTribe members can currently choose from one of our six email newsletters to keep up-to-date on specific topics on BoomTribe.com. Email addresses remains private at all time and members can easily add and remove themselves from our newsletter lists at any time.

We are a 100% spam free company and send no unsolicited email messages. Members receive no more than 2 newsletters per month per list and are guaranteed to receive no more than once/week.

Our newsletters are absolutely free and members can sign up on registration or from the Newsletters page.

Member Search

Contains a powerful member search function based on the registration questions - you decide what fields are available in the search.

Who’s Online?

Displays a list of all members currently on the site. The member names are clickable to open up a member's More Info page.

Instant Messenger

Our 'Intra-Site Messenger' allows members to send private text messages to each other. Messages can be sent using a simple compose form and members can create multiple folders to store their messages. Members can add members to their Buddy List directly from a message and view a 'message history' of all messages they've exchanged with someone on their buddy list. A user can easily add a member to their block list if they don't want to receive messages from him/her.

Surveys

Let us know what you think by taking part in our surveys. Some of our surveys are used to improve our various products and services and some (quite a few) are simply for fun. Either way, our surveys are just one more reason why BoomTribe.com is the leader in Caribbean online communities.

Polls

Our polls are usually used for pure entertainment or to get some quick feedback from the BoomTribe community. Poll results are instantly displayed in a pleasant graphical chart and this adds to the level of interactivity of the site.

Trivia

Trivia (quizzes) are a standard feature of the BoomTribe.com experience. The quizzes are not just purely entertainment, as they also serve to increase the knowledge of the Caribbean islands and diaspora. By allowing everyone to appreciate our differences and similarities, we hope to bring the young people of the region closer together.

Each quiz can have an unlimited number of questions and possible answers. Special messages are added to to make each quiz unique and fun to take. Our software keeps statistics on the correct and incorrect answers per quiz so that members can measure their performance against those who've taken the quiz previously.

We block the same user from taking a quiz more than once to maintain proper scoring but every now and then, we reset the blocking so everyone can try again. We’re nice that way.

Features

We’ve got a number of Community features planned for BoomTribe.com. ‘UWIView” articles will feature intelligent assessments of issues facing UWI students.

‘Young Entrepreneurs” talks about young people out there making things happen and tips for those considering the entrepreneurship option. Each month we also profile a “Community Leader” of the month, chosen from our group of volunteers.

“Boardwatch” features what’s hot on the message boards at present and profile the member selected as BoomTribe member of the week, based on their contribution to the BoomTribe community.