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Do your Marketing plans for the new year include building a social networking site?

Do you manage a social networking website and need to enhance it?

Do you wish to add new features to:

  • expand your business contact base?
  • serve as an online meeting place for business and industry professionals?
  • Invite bloggers for posting their comments and feedback on your products and services?
  • give advertising options to your members?
  • provide an interactive platform for reviewers to give their assessment on the bloggers opinion on products and services?

Contact us now to find out how we can help you in building a new social networking site or enhance your existing website.

We can help you in building a social networking site, from adding a simple back-end functionality to your existing website or build a fully functional website. We understand that building a social networking site involves thorough understanding of the consumer's internet usage patterns and so we spend a good amount of time with your concept team during the initial days of engagement.


Interactive, engaging features for your online community

Create profiles - A new member can create profiles both for social and professional purposes. They can set up background information like their name, age, gender, work experience, hobbies etc. and customize what information is presented and choose who can view it. The account is activated immediately by clicking on a link in a confirmation email.

Create groups - This feature enables the member to connect with people who share common interests and join groups. The member can join and create public or private groups. Have several options for privacy such as hidden, invite only or public setting. The group can also turn on and off the ability for the member to add albums, media or start a discussion.

Friends - The member can manage buddy lists and get updated on their friends activities via RSS feed.

Group tools - Group space tools include photos, blog, polls, forums, white boards, widgets, video, quizzes, wall (notice board), songs and music albums comments. The member can:

  • have a blog, upload photos, post comments, create polls and forums
  • organize their pictures into sets, map the location of their pictures, create slideshows, tag (assign keywords to their pictures), add notes and create favorite lists

Create events - Group members can be given permission to upload videos, post forum topics or replies. Administrators can message all members, assign permissions or roles to members.

Forum & message board - Members can send messages to other members of the group, these may be moderated, or the facility can be disabled altogether. Our platform includes forums and message boards that can be incorporated into any post. This feature also has the added capacity of incorporating rich-media comment, for example, the users can post a photo as part of their participation in the forum.

Blogging - Bloggers can log onto the site and publish the content on their profile through an RSS feed. Every group has a blog and if the moderator permits it, all members of the group can contribute to the blog.

Messaging - The member can message to another member or a group of members by using a variety of tools.

Powerful networking features - This feature helps your members connect with other members. The featured member section provides photo galleries and a search function that allows searches by criteria such as gender, age, location and relationship status. By clicking on another member's photo or name, a member can link directly to the profile page to post their comments and invite them into a network of friends.


Technology

For building a social networking site, Lister can use any of the following technology platforms:

  • Ruby on Rails *, Web 2.0
  • Java and J2EE
  • .NET, ASP

* Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is often referred to as "Rails" or "RoR". Lister uses Ruby on Rails with an Agile Development Methodology, which is often utilized by our web developers for its suitability for short, client-driven projects.

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