How To Add a Social Share Bar To Your Website
If you have surfed the Internet long enough, you have probably seen some of those websites that come with shiny footer bars that let their visitors submit their stories to top social media websites easily. Thanks to Web Informer’s social bar, you can get the same effect on your website, no matter what platform you are running your website on.
Web Informer’s toolbar is pretty easy to install on any website (HTML, WordPress …). It has some of the top social networking websites that you would want your visitors to submit your content to. The sleek look and feel is not too shabby either.
5 Top Social Media Optimized Themes for WordPress
Intend to start a social media friendly website with WordPress? These days with all the plugins you can download for WordPress, that is not a tough task to accomplish. In general, you want your WordPress theme to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and other top social networks. Being able to handle videos and photos without a hassle would be favorable too. There are hundreds of themes that match that criteria. But these 5 social WordPress themes are a good place to start:
Local Theme: Local networks are the talk of town in social media circles these days. With this theme, you can create a local portal and get your local community involved in it too.
Accumulo: an attractive RSS feed aggregator that makes it easy to create a portal based on the content generated on top social networks (similar to AllTop).
AntiSocial: an attractive WordPress theme that enables you to start your own personal portal, while giving your visitors the chance to connect with you on top social networking sites.
Promote Your Resume on Twitter with TwitRes
Social media has become one of the best venues to look for jobs and new opportunities. Since you are dealing with real people on Twitter, you are more likely to find out about open opportunities and hear back from people who are on Twitter. And let’s not forget that Twitter provides you with the chance to find positions that are not being talked about on top job sites. So it never hurts to have your resume ready to go for those Twitter opportunities. That’s where TwitRes comes into play. It’s a very simple to use but essential service for job seekers who want to take advantage of the social media to find new job opportunities.
TwitRes targets both job hunters and recruiters. Job hunters can easily log on to the service by using their Twitter credentials. Resumes can be uploaded in Microsoft word, PDF, or text format. The service keeps track of uploaded resume and gathers statistics for them. You can use the service to find out how many people have viewed your resume and ask for feedback from Twitter community as well. (more…)
Add Your Website To Facebook Tabs with Tabsite
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites on the market and has enabled many developers to bring their innovative ideas to the market as well. Facebook is known for tweaking its design all the time, but one thing that remains constant is your Facebook pages and tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add your website to your Facebook page or personal page without having to know any HTML? Well, there is a service for that. TabSite is an innovative tab builder for Facebook that enables you to give your Facebook page or profile a whole new look by adding a site to Facebook in form of a tab.
WP Google-buzz: Add Google Buzz To Wordpress
Google Buzz generated quite a buzz in the past week as it was Google’s latest effort to take on Facebook and Twitter. The service sits on the top of your Gmail account and lets you connect with friends and others. It’s not as polished as Twitter and Facebook by any means, but it does give you a chance to connect to more people and let your content go viral. In fact, if you have a Wordpress blog, you can easily add your blog posts to Google Buzz. Thanks to WP Google-Buzz, you won’t even have to write a line of code.
How To Get More Out of Your Community with Wibiya
So you want to build your very own super community? One of the best ways to do that is by creating your own blog and adding only top notch content to it. That’s simplifying the matter. If you are passionate about blogging and take the time to engage your community and provide them more value, there is no reason you can’t grow your community and move your blog to the next level.
One of the best ways to get people more involved on your blog is by giving them a way to communicate and connect with your other online presences. Let’s say you have a fan page or a Twitter account for your blog. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get your blog visitors to connect with you on Twitter and Facebook as well? That’s where Wibiya comes in. It’s a cool toolbar system that you can install on your blog to communicate with your visitors more effectively. It comes with all kinds of apps that you can add to your toolbar to bring your online presences to your toolbar without too much trouble.
Wibiya is one flexible service. It not only allows you to add all kinds of widgets to your toolbar, it also makes it possible to run these apps from your website, hence keeping the visitors’ attention on your blog and your content.
Build a Social Media Bar with Skysa
In case you have been surfing the Web a lot lately, you may have seen those sites that take advantage of footer bar to promote social media profiles and related RSS feeds. Thanks to services such as Skysa, you can build your own social media bar and give your visitors more ways to interact with your website and connect with you on social networking websites.
Skysa footer bars essentially add a task-bar to your website. So your users can open up different windows on your website and even join your chat-room. Designing your own Skysa is not that difficult. All you have to do is provide your information and pick the design you feel fit your website’s layout the best.
FollowBase: Customer Support Via Twitter
Being involved on Twitter is more than posting philosophical quotes or retweeting what others have to say. Twitter is an extremely powerful tool for businesses who know how to use it. There are plenty of ways that businesses can get value out of Twitter. They can listen to what people have to say about their niche and pick up ideas for future ideas. They can also track their reputation on Twitter. Best of all, they can provide real-time support to customers via Twitter. That’s where Followbase comes in. It’s an interesting service that lets you get in touch with other companies’ support teams and get help via Twitter.
FollowBase is pretty simple to work with. It’s essentially designed to help people get the support they need via Twitter. If you happen to be a business owner, you can just add your company by entering the Twitter account for your business. The fun part starts when you claim your forum on FollowBase. That will allow you to communicate with your customers more effectively and keep the spammers out as well. (more…)
Social Media: Knowing It vs. Doing It
The number of social media experts is on the rise. In fact, that number may be growing as fast as the number of new blogs. There are a lot of people who are looking for new ways to market themselves to employers and their clients. Being a social media expert (or claiming it) is certainly one way to gain some extra attention. But social media is not about what you claim you know. It’s not even about what you do know. It’s more about what you can do with the knowledge you have.
You can be an expert in Google Wave or Twitter. You may know all the commands and even spend hours everyday playing with these services. But if you don’t know how you can provide value to your company through these services, you are not really an expert. There are too many people who spend their time going to conferences, picking up industry jargon, and claiming things that are not necessarily true. These won’t really make you an expert in the field of social media nor does the fact that you can set up a blog by yourself.
Blippy: Share What You Buy
We have seen a lot of social networking websites emerge out of nowhere in the past few months. They all you to share all kinds of information with the world. You can get to share your favorite books, lists, videos, and more with the world. With Blippy, you get to share what you are buying and where you are buying it from with the world. I know. Why would you want to share what you are buying online with others. Maybe it is to get feedback or show others what stores you are supporting. Whatever the case, the idea can be certainly interesting.
