Start your own social network with INSTAPRISE
May.28.2009 
Social networking is all the rage nowadays and Facebook has recently become the most searched for brand and 2nd most visited site in the UK (Source: Hitwise).
According to Hitwise, “Social networks now account for 1 in every 10 UK Internet visits and 1 in every 5 page views. Only search engines receive more UK Internet visits than social networks.”
This is only set to continue as the social networks targeting specific niches explode on to the scene catering for the personal tastes and interests of users in a way the large generic social networks can’t. The niches within the niches of Music, cooking, travel, web design, sport, fashion, geographic locations, science… etc are all up for grabs.
Start your own social network
Always ones to make sure our customers are able to take advantage of the latest web developments you can now create your own social network, quickly and easily with only a few clicks.
Our recent addition to our already massive library of one click install programs is “Elgg”. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.
This new addition joins an already impressive list (small selection below)…
- WordPress
- Joomla
- phpBB3 forums
- Sugar CRM
- Drupal CMS
- PHPcoin
- MediaWiki
- Openads
- Mambo CMS
- Coppermine Photo Gallery
- Form to Email
- osTicket
- dotProject
We also offer our INSTA Community – fully installed social community, ready to go! over at our Turnkey Installation Site INSTAsite.biz
The rise and rise (and rise) of social networking
Please take a look at our community software….http://www.instacommunity.co.uk which can be purchased at our INSTA turnkey store HERE
Following on from our recent post about Hitwise’s research in to social networking in the UK yet more research is pointing to social networks as being THE growth area online.
Nielson Online has released findings in to the use of social networking around the globe and from a virtual standing start a few years ago their category has exploded in to 4th place.
Grouped with blogs to create a category named “Member communities” they have now over taken email and are only behind search engines, portals and PC software (I’d argue ‘adult sites’ would be in there somewhere if they were not consciously excluded in this type of research).
Other stats that jump out are:
- 67% of their research panel use member community sites
- 1 in every 11 minutes online are spent on these sites
- The 35 – 49 age category saw the biggest increase in uptake
- UK mobile web users are the most likely to access these sites through a hand set than any other country
- 69% of the UK online audience visit a member community site
Social networking doesn’t really offer anything new in terms of what you can do (posting on a board, send a message, chat online, share images…) but what is different bringing all of these in to one handy place where our ‘friends’ can access them.
I wonder how it will be before we can search the internet from Facebook?
This looks like a great time to jump on to the social networking band wagon and our addition of social networking software Elgg to our CGI one-click Internet library of one click install programs lets you to take full advantage.
You can read Nielson’s press release summary here: http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/pr_090309.pdf (PDF)
PS, dont forget that we offer a fully installed INSTA community over at http://www.instasite.biz
