Posts Tagged ‘social media design’

CMS Allows Easy Twitter Integration with your Website

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Building an online community is a common goal for many brands. In order to do this successfully, visitors need to be able to do a few things when they visit your website in order to get involved in the process. One great way to enhance user experience is to integrate your social media feeds with your website. Social media integration keeps your website fresh, and allows for more visitor interaction.

Displaying your Twitter feed on your website is a wonderful way to show visitors real-time news and events. An attractive Twitter widget can encourage your website’s audience to follow you on Twitter, serving as an additional method for expanding your network. Furthermore, when designed right, a Twitter feed can improve the aesthetics of a website’s layout.

The Twitter Feed module in the Auctori content management system allows users to display their Tweets anywhere on their website. This module takes your most recent Tweets and displays them automatically within an easy to read list for your visiting users. Users have full control over their avatar, how many Tweets to display and even specific grammar settings.

  • Display a customized number of Tweets
  • Choose whether or not to show your Avatar
  • Customizable your Avatar size
  • Ability to specify a personalized title
  • Styled to match your website for a seamless integration
  • Control over past, present and link grammar

learn more about the Auctori web content management system at: www.auctori.com

Developing a Social Media Design Strategy

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Overlooking social media design is a tempting prospect. After all, why should anyone pay a web design company to develop a layout for a free service? Nurturing consumer loyalty is the rudimentary objective of social media. Without a visually magnificent fan wall or follower’s page, it’s just one bland social media page among a throng of millions.

It’s no secret that social media design requires more than selecting the templates, available in Facebook and Twitter web applications. Just as the company Web site, stationary and traditional advertising collateral sport the company’s insignia, the social media site is not any different.

Did you know... that social media doubles as a market research platform. Moreover, corporations with social media pages on Facebook and Twitter bolster better page rankings and search engine visibility than those that do not subscribe to social media.

Since, social media remains an enigma to small to large sizes businesses, companies should approach the marketing catalyst with a strategy in mind. Use the following list to refine a social media design strategy:

  • How does your firm plan to use social media to heighten brand awareness? 
  • Does your firm plan to leverage social media to enhance the company reputation?
  • Is your business introducing a new product line or service(s)? Whether social media design is for new or existing products, remember to include the products, logo and other distinctive brand traits on the Twitter and Facebook site layouts. Also, make sure that your company’s Web site has a link to the Facebook  and Twitter sites.

Social media design tip: Compile a list, creating a profile of the specific target segments

Once the social media design is complete, be sure to assign a member of the team the responsibility of keeping the page fresh and current.

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