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Social Media - Give your visitors a voice!
Many websites and intranets are now providing tools that allow their users to become part of the site's community, from simple reviews of products, comments on news items and blogs right through to full communities that let members meet each other, discuss and share their knowledge and help promote the site further.
With leaders like Facebook™ social networks have become a force that drives loyalty, web traffic, advertising revenue and sales. But even on a much smaller scale your site could take advantage of web 2.0 and the community sites it creates.
E-commerce sites can benefit hugely by adding social networking features allowing customers to review products and share their experience often suggesting additional purchases and "up sells", these can be completely self moderated or with full moderation with posts needing to be approved by designated users.
Social network enabled informational sites can grow organically with a large membership adding their own content and rating the existing materials, driving brand awareness, loyalty and traffic.
Our Experience
As a social network developer we've been building social tools for our clients for years, starting with simple product review systems for online stores through to forums and recently we developed the Alpro Soya Year Of Wellbeing social networking site which uses our V4 social libraries to provide an easy to use scalable, reliable community application for all the Year of Wellbeing members.
Features could include:
- Sign up management
- Data capture
- Account creation
- User profile management
- Friends management
- Search
- Invites
- Acceptance
- Declines
- Friends lists
- Messaging
- Chat
- Blogging
- Product
reviews
- Rating
- Comments
- Other people bought...
- Media (Images, Video and more)
- Upload
- Post processing i.e. Scaling, rotation, Exif extraction
- Storage systems including distributed services like Amazon's S3
- Management
- Comments
- Tagging
- Tag Clouds
- Rating
- Voting
- Groups
- Membership management
- Communications
- Events
- News
- API data and RSS feeds
- XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) linking
- Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
- Reporting
- Analytics
- Membership demographics
- Marketing information
Get your visitors talking!
Thinking of building a community or just getting real time feedback from your visitors?
Why not give us a call today on 01394 382400 or send us an email with a description of your needs and see how we can help!
