socialize your joomla! website

Socialize Your Joomla! Website

Create An Authentic Community With Joomla!

Social Media: Umm…what-the?!

Once you know “what-the-heck” then how-the-heck are you going to get it into your site?

That’s what we’ll cover today.

Oh, then there’s the why-the-heck part too…

Easy Answer: Growth

The Social Revolution

So what exactly IS “Social Media?”

"Social media is like a first kiss…

Everyone wants to do it,

No one actually knows how…

And when it’s finally over, we’re surprised it wasn’t better."

Social Media is:

Social content, created through social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques.

Content is User-Generated: The User is transformed from a content consumer into a content producer.

Social media fosters many-to-many dialogues,

rather than one-to-many broadcast media monologues

So in a nutshell, using Social Media as defined in Wiki form,

since you’re not actually creating any content, your job is easy peezy!

Just do this:

Create a destination for Users to communicate with other like-minded users on subject matter which you’re willing and able to host, using all sorts of methods such as text, photos, video, audio, chat, discussion boards, blogs, walls, comments, an app here; an app there; whilst leaving room for future communication methods to be named later…

Don’t worry. Be happy. A lot of the groundwork has already been done for us, using Joomla! CMS plus some very powerful add-ons.

Social Community App’s:

  Community Builder

  CBE (CB Enhanced)

  JomSocial

  JoomUnity

Today’s Focus:

Social Extensions For Joomla!

  FaceBook FanBox   Add “Fan Box” to your Joomla site   By Style13

  NinjaWave   Incorporate Google Wave   By NinjaForge

Social Extensions For Joomla!

  Joomla! Com-Twitter Component   Integrate Joomla! With Twitter   By Mobilada

  Stalker   Social Network Listing   By Nick Texidor

Social Extensions For Joomla!

  WordPress For Joomla!   WordPress + Joomla Combined!   By ‘corePHP’

  MyBlog   Excellent Blogging Solution   By Azrul Studios

Social Extensions For Joomla!

  Jxtended Comments   Commenting, Bookmarks & Ratings   By jxtended

  Disqus   Commenting System   By JoomlaWorks

JomSocial Communities:

  FellowFishermen

JomSocial Communities:

  Ministry Of Gamers

JomSocial Communities:

  Jamaicans.com

And Everybody’s Favorite:

  JoomlaChicago!

JomSocial For JoomlaChicago

  Easier Development

  Fast Deployment

  SM In A Box

  Excellent Service

  Ease of Use

  More Templates

  Aggressive Growth

JomSocial For JoomlaChicago

  Demo

Thank You!

Socialize Your Joomla! Website

Create An Authentic Community With Joomla!

Presented by:John Coonen Director, CMS Association

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