Social Media Development

Tapping into social web software

The power of Web 2.0 is that many of the most popular social media platforms allow you to access their network, tools and social software by letting your programs and website to 'talk' to theirs. This means you can show slideshows off your Flickr feed, show your Twitter tweets on your homepage and even allow your customers to share some of your content on other networks, helping your SEO efforts and getting your name out there.

The Liquid Web developers have been actively building web apps based on these interconnections (APIs they're called) for several years, including popular services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. Our social media development experts can easily explain what you can do with social media tools and how to choose the right content to offer your customers.

Here are a few of the interesting uses for social media:
• Automatically show Twitter updates on your blog
• Publish blog article titles as tweets
• Photo competition using Flickr to manage upload and entry of contestants
• Streaming YouTube video channel on your homepage showing product demonstration videos
• Mixing Google Maps with Flickr to show where photos were taken on a trip sponsored by a travel company

Contact Us for an informal chat about your social media opportunities.