CommunityOfSweden.com is a social website that let's you share and enjoy photos, travel stories, tips and more from friends in Sweden and all over the world.
Upload photos, Write travel stories and recommendations, ask questions and discuss in the forums, tag your content, show everyone where in Sweden you've been and find friends with similar interests as yourself.
Upload photos of yourself, friends and family and from holidays
You can upload as many photos as you want. You can tag every photo with descriptive tags and with one geographic tag. Other users can then find your photo by browsing the tag clouds. By tagging your photos geographically we can also show your photo overlayed on an interactive map of Sweden.
Interactive map of Sweden
This is the interactive map that let's you explore Sweden right on the CommunityOfSweden.com start page.
Since all photos have a geographic tags we can show the popular photos overlayed on Sweden like this.
Clicking on a photo will bring up a layer showing more photos from that region as well as list stories and which members that have been there.
Write travel stories and recommendations
You can write as many stories as you want. They can be about your travels, something you want to recommend or just a story about anything you want to write about.
Stories are also tagged like photos so that other members can easily find stories they are interested in.
A story can have 6 photos.
CommunityOfSweden.com offers a discussion forum with several boards suitable for all kinds of discussions. Are all Swedes Vikings? Are all the Swedish women tall, beautiful and blonde? Do Swedes eat meatballs, smorgasbord and dance to Abba all day long?
Find out in the forums!
Forum posts are also tagged like photos and stories so that other members can easily find posts they are interested in.
Everything in CommunityOfSweden.com gets tagged in one way or another. This makes it possible for us to visualize content in tag clouds and it makes it easier for members to find what they are interested in.
The geographic tags also allow us to show your photos overlayed on an interactive map of Sweden. By specifying which season a photo or story belongs to it's also searchable by season.
Here's an example of how a photo is tagged.
Have you been in Sweden? Then you want to show everybody where you've been, right? It's also one of the first things a member looks at when visiting another members page; where has this member been in Sweden?
CommunityOfSweden.com has a full database of all the cities in Sweden. You can enter every city you've ever been to in Sweden and show it on your little map for everybody to see.
Keep an eye out for the Become friends button on members pages so you can add them as friends. If you read a great story or see a beautiful photo, then why not become friends with this member? Or search the tag cloud for other's of your nationality. Maybe you already know some people who have found their way here? Or write in the forums for a travel buddy for your next trip.
Make new friends :)