Patent ID: 8392962

Claim:
A system for facilitating network communications, comprising: a memory that stores a program containing code for facilitating network communications; and a processor functionally coupled to the memory, the processor being responsive to computer-executable instructions contained in the program that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: creating web pages for a web site in accordance with input received from a user of a plurality of users associated with a project, wherein the web site facilitates the network communications between the plurality of users associated with the project, receiving selections of features which are available to be added to the web site in response to user prompts and setting access rights on which of the features are to be available to different roles of the plurality of users, receiving a first request to enable a plurality of capabilities for the web site, in response to receiving the first request, creating a newsletter web page for the web site providing a collection of newsletters relevant to the project, providing, to the plurality of users associated with a particular access privilege, options to add a newsletter to the collection of newsletters, delete a newsletter from the collection of newsletters, and modify a newsletter of the collection of newsletters, receiving a second request to associate a design scheme for the web site, in response to receiving the second request, associating the web pages of the web site with the design scheme, providing a public statement option to receive input and a private statement option to receive input, wherein input received in the public statement option is viewable via a web page of the web pages by any of the plurality of users, and input received in the private statement option is viewable via a web page of the web pages by users of the plurality of users determined to be authenticated as members registered in an enterprise directory, wherein the enterprise directory comprises the plurality of users associated with the project.