Social Media Pack – Empower you business with social media

Sprouter support added to Social Media Pack

Social Media Pack LinkedIn Support now includes support for Sprouter

Sprouter asks entrepreneurs the question “What are you working on?” – answering this question encourages other members of the Sprouter community to offer tips, support, resources or other relevant members to connect with, all in 140 characters or less. Typical social networks allow you to connect with people you already know – whether your friends, family, or former coworkers. The idea behind Sprouter is that it’s the people you haven’t connected with yet but who share common goals and interests who can be the most valuable resources. Join the community, create a profile, and start connecting with other entrepreneurs globally – the community currently has members from all over the world, including India, Australia, Europe, and North America.

With immediate effect, Social Media Pack from Matt Porter Web Design Limited now updates Sprouter. This is a further improvement to our existing Blog Integration.

About Social Media Pack

Social Media Pack is a solution to integrate Wordpress Blogs with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr and MySpace. Enabling businesses to spread the word about their products and services to millions of potential customers. In return these businesses receive “warm leads”.

Social Media Pack was devised by Matt Porter Web Design Limited.

For more information email socialmediapack@mattporter.com

Bill Gates joins Twitter, cue the Fail Whale

Welcome to Twitter

Bill Gates, the worlds richest man has joined Twitter. Currently gathering in excess of 20,000 new followers an hour, Bill is surely looking forward to interacting with is (potentially) millions of new fans.

Sadly it would seem, that the welcome that many Twitter users are facing when visiting the site is the “Fail Whale”. The Fail Whale is synonymous with regular users of the site as a sign that Twitter is in effect broken.

If you want to follow Bill, and Twitter will allow it he can be found at the following link @BillGates

Social Media a Fad? Start the New Year ahead!!

This video has been around a little while, but it demonstrates the power of Social Networks better than any I have seen since.  Businesses…. Start the new Decade ahead of your competition.  Social Media Pack does all the work for you.

For more information on Social Media Pack, call Matt on +44(0)1473 272002

Happy New Year to you ALL

Aldeburgh Museum Gets Social Media Pack

Aldeburgh Museum have launched their new Online Archive powered by Social Media Pack.

Social Media Pack allows Aldeburgh Museum to syndicate their latest news and information to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Posterous.

We look forward working with the team at Moot Hall, helping them to give more people access to their historical finds.

Network Marketing Blog moves to Social Media Pack

The Network Marketing Blog

John Passmore, regular blogger at Network Marketing Blog has completed his transfer from Blogger to Social Media Pack.

www.networkmarketingblog.org.uk, links to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Plaxo and LinkedIn. To view John’s blog, click here.

We look forward to continuing to work with John to grow his business using the power of Social Media.

EXF Fitness now on Social Media Pack

EXF Fitness have launched their new blog powered by Social Media Pack.

Social Media Pack allows EXF Fitness to manage their social network connections from one place. Connecting to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo and Tumblr.

We look forward working with Charles and his team at EXF, helping them to market their business using the power of social media.

LinkedIn to get new design

The business to business social network LinkedIn has announced on it’s blog plans to upgrade its users navigation experience with a brand new design.

The new design provides convenient access to its services via a new navigation bar. The design also aims to simply the sites navigation interface making it easy for users to find the right information quickly.

So when will these new features be rolled out? Well, some LinkedIn users may already be experiencing these changes on a ‘limited rollout’ basis, with the rest of us getting the new look soon.

LinkedIn currently boasts in excess of 50,000,000 users, and what with some high profile success stories relating to the site, the new design shows LinkedIn aren’t resting on their laurels.

Have you experienced LinkedIn’s new look? Let us know what you think.

Marketing your business on Facebook

Just when you thought Facebook was simply a tool to allow you to play Mafia Wars, post pictures of family and friends or searching for long lost school chums, along came a new idea…. why not use Facebook for business?

As of 15th September 2009, Facebook now serves more than 300 million people across the world. A couple of months on, it is very likely that this figure will have overtaken the population of the United States. So, if Facebook were a country they would be the 3rd most populated on the planet!

Just think, every business has the opportunity to market themselves to more than a 5th of the world’s population, the burning question is how?

I would highly recommend that should you decide to actively market your business or products on Facebook, you consider a business account. a business account is slightly different from a personal account.

Read Facebooks terms and conditions. You really don’t want your account banned, and mark my words, Facebook will ban your account if they don’t believe you are behaving fairly.

Make sure your privacy settings are configured to ensure ‘personal information’ is kept private.

Try and integrate your existing web site with your Facebook account using Facebook Connect.

Post newsletters and company information in your profile.

Post your Facebook address in your email signature, business cards etc. There is no point going to the trouble of setting these things up unless you tell as many people as possible where to find you.

Use other social networks such as Twitter alongside your Facebook account.

And finally…. Don’t be too pushy when talking about your products and services online. Social Networks are generally free of charge sites to help you build contacts within your industry, people can just as quickly ‘unfollow‘ you if they think they are getting a ‘hard sell’.

This blog posting also appears on The Best of Ipswich

Latest News from Social Media Pack (updated)

It’s been very exciting this week in Ipswich. With five new Social Media Packs, it is now clear to us that this was a product that businesses are crying out for.

So what makes the product so useful?

Social Media Pack now integrates with 11 social networks and microblogging sites.

The key to this integration is linking posts back to your blog. When you write your blog post, our system of plugins ‘fires’ that entry over to our supported social networks. Facebook for instance allows us to post the article and photographs, Twitter and Tumblr  allows for status updates. LinkedIn allows for status updates and importing of the blog in it’s entirity.

Listed below, are the Social Networks currently supported ‘out of the box’.

Twitter
LinkedIn *updated*
Facebook *updated*
Tumblr
MySpace
Plaxo
Ning *just added*
Plurk *just added*
Live Journal *just added*
Yahoo Profiles *just added*
Yahoo Meme *just added*
Posterous *BRAND NEW*

Do you think your company could benefit from entering the evolving social network market? If you think the answer is yes and you don’t want to spend hours updating multiple sites, give me a call on +44(0)1473 272002 or email matt@socialmediapack.co.uk

Which Social Network Directly Benefits Your Business?

Development of Social Media Pack continues alongside its rapidly increasing customer base.  In order to gauge areas of further development, we are asking our Readers / Twitter Followers/ Facebook Fans to fill out our Poll in which we are asking “Which Social Network Directly Benefits Your Business”.

Please take 30 seconds to complete the poll.

Thanks in advance

Matt