One of the more popular CMS (content management system) programs available on the web is Joomla. Thousands of web sites viewable on the internet are powered by this extremely versatile and easy to use CMS program. The software has a rather extensive list of extensions available to add onto the product and one of the more popular types downloaded by many businesses is those that pertain to social networking and social media.
About Joomla
With its original creation back in 2000, Joomla has grown as an open source content management solution to encompass an ever-growing list of extensions, themes and a community of over 200,000 users and contributors all helping make it one of the best bits of programming available.
Joomla is the perfect solution for many different styles of web sites. Whether commercial, media-specific, government, educational or as an intranet solution, Joomla can easily tackle the task at hand.
The program is very simple to setup and Joomla’s site is crammed with information with regard to how to setup the program and getting started using the program. Additionally, the company’s web site includes an online demonstration to try out in case of uncertainty.
Social media for business
The latest and greatest medium available for businesses to interact with their customers and clients is social media. Social media comes in various forms and each form caters to a specific kind of media (graphic, text, video, audio, etc.). Businesses are quickly finding out that utilizing different types of social media is the key to garnering new customers, keeping old customers and getting feedback from customers.
Two of the more popular types of social media are micro-blogging and blogging. Sites such as Twitter and Identi.ca are examples of micro-blogging – communication mediums that only allow for small amounts of text to be published. On the other end of this spectrum is blogging. Blogging allows for much longer bits of text and allows for incorporation of other social media types such as YouTube video inclusion.
Social networking related Joomla extensions
Among the hundreds upon hundreds of extensions available to add onto Joomla, there are a number of great social networking specific modules to be found. For those businesses who have Facebook and Gmail that they would like integrated into their web site, Jbolo is a perfect addition. Users adding this module onto their Joomla site will enable the two sites to integrate easily. If wanting to embed videos but maybe not wanting to embed those from YouTube, hwdVideoShare is a great little module that is getting quite a lot of reviews and positive feedback.
The list of social media modules and extensions available can be found simply by going to the Joomla site Extensions area and typing in “social network” within the search bar. At last check, there were 38 different social media extensions available for downloading.
Final Assessment
When it comes to easy web site administration and content management, Joomla has got businesses covered. Once ready to take the social media plunge, it’s nice to know that Joomla also has businesses covered with its array of social media add-ons available to the public. Make your business web site social networking savvy and check out Joomla today.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Joomla is the most flexible and in fact the best CMS i have used so far. My Joomla blog is setup on LimeDomains. It’s up & running successfully!