Personal Sized Social Networks
Creating personal to small business sized social networking sites, under the full control of the owner, has never been simpler.
Minimum Requirements
- A server that allows secure shell access and includes popular development tools.
- eZ Publish Community Edition
- Digital content, including text, pictures, and movies
- A community of 1 or more.
Maintain Focus
All info and communications may be fully self-contained on a single site. No need for confusing links and sidebars that may entice visitors away from your information.
Imagine if you had to watch 55 minutes of advertising, for every 5 minutes of television. A big reason many well-educated older netizens cite for not wanting broadband access? 800 million channels of "nothing on". These users are tired of being forced to jump site-to-site-to-site to find what they want, all the while being bombarded with ancillary "chaff" advertisements in the stream. They see no point in pulling in more advertising faster via broadband.
Netizens immediately recognize the beauty of simplicity. They so rarely see it these days. Users come searching for specific knowledge and information. They just want to know what they want to know. Give them the information they need in uncluttered interfaces, they will be back, they will tell their friends.
The Communications Medium is Important
Some visitors prefer pure text, others may feel a picture is worth a thousand words. Videos can create excitement and energy, and cross language barriers.
The picture for this article is courtesy of a default eZ Publish with eZ Flow install. It was left in place to demo the power of a pretty picture combined with text.
Articles, blogs, calendars, forums, galleries, polls, videos, and more are all produced using visually consistent Web forms. Type in the text, upload pictures and videos, click Publish, just that simple. Multiple editors and multiple users working together can create, layout and schedule publishing dates for Web content. eZ Systems has become the #1 choice of the media industry worldwide, proven to scale as needs grow.