Widget Wizardry: Web 2.0 Connections Made Easy

August 25, 2009 - 0 comments

Companies all around are getting connected to the social media world. You may be on Twitter, or your might prefer Facebook, but the question is, do people know about your presence? It’s simple to take one more step and make it easy for your targeted customers to find all of your social media connections using widgets.

What are widgets? They’re cool, customizable mini-applications that can be embedded directly into to a web page, bringing live feeds, games and user specific information to your visitors. Popular social media sites offer simple chunks of code you can insert on your site to create instant widgets.

For example, by adding a Facebook widget to your company’s site, you immediately have a visually attractive and customized entry point readily available for visitors to connect with you. Via your Facebook widget, visitors can see up-to-the-minute wall postings and become your fan with a click. And of course the widget links directly to your Facebook page.

There is a vast and growing range of widgets available. Below is an example showing how Signal has combined three widgets (including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook) on one “connect with us” page. Visit the Alma Lasers Connect page and see the widgets in action!

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Category: Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Web Applications, Web Marketing, Web Sites

Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, web 2.0, Web Marketing, widgets, YouTube.