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Verizon Wireless and iSkoot, a leading provider of mobile Web services, today announced the availability of Social Beat, the free social media application that allows Verizon Wireless customers nationwide to simplify their mobile social networking with a single app.

Running on the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network, Social Beat makes it easy for Verizon Wireless customers to stay fully connected to popular social media sites, including Facebook®, MySpace™ and Twitter®. Social Beat also displays more than 50 customer-selected feeds from the hottest names in news, sports and entertainment sources, which can be viewed in one central location. Customers can easily view and manage their social networks through live feeds and real-time notifications.

‘Social Beat fits well with what Verizon Wireless customers crave – easy access to all of their social media network sites in a single app,’ said Jennifer Byrne, director of business development for Verizon Wireless. ‘iSkoot’s app is available on many of our feature phones and offers an intuitive, easy on-ramp for our customers as they bring their social networking communities into their handsets.’

When customers sign in to Social Beat, they can easily view friends’ activity, news feeds, status updates and new photos. Customers can even post new status messages and tweets, send comments and messages, and receive updates from their personalized news section through a single stream on their mobile phone in real time.

‘Social networking is the fastest growing sector in mobile, and together with Verizon Wireless, we are able to offer a simple but powerful app that allows consumers to easily stay connected to their social media network even while they are on the go,’ said Mark Jacobstein, chief executive officer of iSkoot. ‘Because our solutions do the heavy lifting in the cloud and deliver communications to a single platform, service providers can bring social networking and news feeds to almost any mobile device they offer regardless of the technology.’

Social Beat is available now to Verizon Wireless customers as a free download on more than 20 feature phones, including the LG enV™, enV2™, enV3™, the LG Chocolate™, and Chocolate™ 3, as well as many other popular Verizon Wireless handsets. Customers can download Social Beat from their wireless phones by selecting Get Going in the Media Center/Get It Now®, by texting SOCIAL to APPS (2777) or by visiting the online media store at http://www.mediastore.verizonwireless.com or http://bit.ly/socialbeat

ASOS.com, the UK’s leading online fashion store, has launched ASOSreviews.com, an exciting Twitter-powered feedback and reviews micro-site. The site follows ASOS.com’s hugely successful launch of ASOS Life, an online community that facilitates interaction and conversation between the brand and its consumers.
James Hart, eCommerce Director at ASOS.com, said ‘ASOSreviews.com is a great way for us to keep in touch with and be open about the real-time feelings of our customers. Its bright, visual nature gives us nowhere to hide and I’ll be making it not only visible to our customers but to all of our colleagues at ASOS HQ as well. It’s also a great feedback tool and the great thing is that the loop is already closed as our customer care team already monitor and respond to tweets directed at us 24/7. We are excited about the launch of the site and have some interesting plans for its future development.’
ASOSreviews.com aggregates and displays positive and negative tweets about the brand, and encourages users to tweet their opinion about their ASOS.com experience. The site also visualises the overall sentiment of the brand and displays an interesting word cloud overview of what people are saying.
Charles Dalton-Moore, Managing Director of thruSITES, the social media development firm that built the site, said ‘ASOSreviews.com is designed to give a snapshot of customer sentiment on ASOS.com whilst encouraging ASOS.com’s online community to engage with and talk about the brand. We very much admire ASOS.com’s boldness in launching the site and taking the leading social media approach of any fashion retailer. Many other companies out there have yet to wake up to the reality of social media and should take ASOS.com’s example of learning from and engaging with their online community.’
About thruSITES
thruSITES is a London-based strategic web design and development agency specialising in community sites and social networks, plus social media apps and widgets for a range of networks. thruSITES works with large multinationals and government organisations, directly and via top marketing agencies, as well as smaller clients and web entrepreneurs. http://www.thrusites.com
About ASOS.com
Established in June 2000, asos.com is the UK’s largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer. With over 25,000 branded and own label products available, and 1000 new lines added each week, asos.com is rapidly becoming the market leader in the UK online fashion world. Aimed primarily at fashion forward 16-34 year olds, asos.com attracts over 5.6 million unique visitors a month and has 2.7 million registered users. http://www.asos.com

Audi today released the final social media video installment documenting behind-the-scenes considerations that shaped its entries in this year’s Los Angeles Design Challenge, a competition associated with the upcoming L.A. Auto Show involving Southern California automotive studios.
As part of the design process, the Audi design team leveraged social media as an interactive forum through which to solicit consumer insights. Using the Audi Facebook page as a central hub, the team was able to engage Audi fans – and regular Facebook users alike – in a variety of ways, including discussion threads, polls and feedback on photos and videos. This resulted in an active conversation between the Audi designers and the consumers they were targeting.
With its nearly 400,000 fans, the Audi Facebook audience is composed of passionate brand enthusiasts who have a mutual affinity for automobiles. They yielded feedback for the design team that proved uniquely thoughtful. Additionally, the broader Facebook community was welcome to participate as well, increasing the potential input. Collectively, Facebook participants played a key role in shaping the design and functionality of the Audi models submitted for the competition.
Case in point: the prevalence of communications tools in the final Audi designs. When engaging with Facebook users for input on the topic of connectivity, the Audi Design Team received overwhelming demand to stay in touch with users’ digital worlds – even behind the wheel. Taking this insight to heart, the design team developed a driving experience that, while solitary, enabled seamless communication through a host of channels including messaging and social networking integration via mobile broadband.
In fact, a large number of design elements in the final products can be credited to Facebook users.
“Often, we’d encounter decisions in which both options had merit from a design perspective,” said Jae Min, Chief Designer, Design Center, California. “In those instances, it was especially useful to field input from the Facebook users. After reviewing the feedback, we would eventually notice a consensus formed among the community which shaped our final designs.”
The theme of this year’s competition, titled “YouthMobile 2030,” asked design teams to envision automobiles appealing to young people of the future. Many major automakers participate in this annual competition that challenges their respective California design studios to push the limits of their expertise and imagination.
The Audi Design Team developed two complementary models meeting these criteria: the accessible Audi eOra and the aspirational Audi eSpira. Both cars function as extensions of one’s body and its senses. Using next generation vehicle control logic, they take even the smallest body movements and gestures of the driver into consideration to provide an unsurpassed command of the drive. The sportier eOra has a smaller footprint has unmatched agility.
Participating Facebook fans said having a stake in the design of these groundbreaking vehicles was empowering and rewarding. While engagement through social media is nothing new, transcending the virtual world to create something tangible is more novel for brands.
“It was really nice to see that Audi cared enough to listen,” said Joe Zamani an active member of the Audi community on Facebook who participated in the regular Design Challenge queries on the page. “The fact that they felt our opinions were worth taking to heart was encouraging. It shows what a valuable resource social media can be when ideas are turned into something real.”
The Los Angeles Design Challenge results will be revealed on December 3, 2009 during the L.A. Auto Show.
The latest Audi web video captures the final stretch of the Los Angeles Design Challenge and the Audi design team’s creation process. Audi partnered with entertainment and marketing production agency Trailer Park to create the video.
To view the latest Audi L.A. Design Challenge web video, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w98a4qLZAE
To visit the Audi Facebook Page, go to: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=115498098436 – /audi?ref=ts
ABOUT AUDI
Audi of America Inc. and its 270 dealers offer a full line of German-engineered luxury vehicles. The Audi lineup is one of the freshest in the industry with 23 models, including 12 models launched during model years 2008 and 2009. Audi is among the most successful luxury automotive brands globally. In selling one million vehicles worldwide in 2008, AUDI AG recorded its 13th consecutive record year for sales growth. Visit www.audiusa.com or www.audiusanews.com for more information regarding Audi vehicle and business issues.

Twitter has taken the online social networking community by storm. Millions of users post updates throughout the day that are now going well beyond the classic tagline of just “what are you doing?” Rather, what is posted on Twitter contains a wealth of information about ones life experiences.

Just like a diary or journal, a stream of Twitter updates come together to tell a story. A new service recently launched by 140bio.com now allows users to publish those experiences as their very own printed “microbiography.” Produced on quality white stock paper with full color glossy cover, paperback microbiographies are great for archiving life’s greatest moments, whit and observations. 140bio.com makes it possible to preserve and reminisce about those events with a 5″ x 8″ paperback version of personalized tweets.

140bio.com is also pleased to announce that the shipping fee will be waived for a limited time.

Visit http://www.140bio.com for more information or follow us on Twitter for specials and other promotional events @140bio

7Summits, a new type of Social Business Agency, announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Jive Software designed to deliver more end-to-end social business solutions for enterprises through a combination of Jive’s Social Business Software (SBS) and 7Summits’ Strategic Framework for Applied Social Media.

7Summits provides Social Business Strategy and related services that leverage Jive’s SBS to deliver custom, tailored social communities. Jive SBS is applied to key business imperatives including Customer Service, Product Development, Human Resources, Marketing, Sales, and Operations to drive measureable business value. Beyond Facebook and Twitter, an organization building its own community provides more customer insight, direct communications and the ability to measure the effectiveness of how these conversations affect behaviors that directly relate to business performance. Jive’s SBS platform is the proven market leader. 7Summits has focused on building solutions with the platform that should garner interest across industries.

“7Summits is all about Applied Social Media for Business and Jive’s Social Business Software has everything that is needed to deliver on your Social Business Strategy. With Jive’s SBS, we can easily and efficiently execute a strategy that has a direct and measurable impact on improved revenue, reduced cost or both” said Paul Stillmank, President and CEO of 7Summits. “We believe in Jive so much that 7Summits’ web experience is powered completely by Jive. But don’t just listen to us; Gartner and Forrester have ranked Jive at the top of the pile in recently published analyst reports.” Stillmank served as part of Jive’s Expert Panel discussion at JiveWorld09.

“Leveraging social business software and applying social media constructs for business benefit is about more than just technology. Customers need strategy, measurement, and levers to know when refinement and action is needed. We are pleased to have an industry visionary in 7Summits to help us provide a complete solution for our customers”, said Robert Brown, Senior Vice President of Client Services, Jive Software.

About Jive Software Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software, collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.

About 7Summits Founded in 2009, 7Summits is a Social Business Agency with mission of helping their clients’ customers, employees and partners build their business. 7Summits refers to this as Applied Social Media for Business. 7Summits is dedicated to helping clients apply social media to drive business imperatives. The firm brings deep marketing and social media strategy expertise that helps organizations wade through the hype and focus on moving key operational metrics.

myRete is announcing WhosHere 2.0. The WhosHere 2.0 marquee new feature is WhosHere Voice. As long as both parties have a Wi-Fi connection, WhosHere Voice allows our 750,000 users to call any other user for free. The recipient does not even have to be in the app to take a WhosHere call.

There are two unique components of WhosHere Voice. First, each user controls who has permission to call them. Second, users do not give out any personal information to make or receive a call. Users do not have to give out a phone number, email or IM address to use WhosHere Voice. It ensures users all the privacy they desire to have on a caller-by-caller basis.

WhosHere Voice uses Apple’s iPhone SDK to create a Voice Over IP (VOIP) connection and completely avoids the mobile phone networks. As such, WhosHere users will not see any long-distance, roaming or international mobile phone charges.

Additionally, WhosHere Voice works on the iPod touch 2G further enhancing the utility of an already great device.

Bryant Harris, myRete CEO, said of WhosHere 2.0, “We are thrilled that we have accomplished two significant events in the social networking space. First, we have given our users unique and compelling feature; free, in-app calls without having to give out any personal information. Second, we have done something brand new on the iPhone and iPod touch; creating a social network that goes beyond texts and images to one where real-time voice conversations can happen.”

WhosHere 2.0 includes: *Requires an iPhone or iPod touch 2G and both parties to have a Wi-Fi connection ** Requires OS 3.0 or higher

WhosHere is a social proximity networking application that enables users to meet fri, potential dates or network through an exceptionally simple interface. WhosHere will show you matches that are near you or anywhere in the world based on your answers to a few questions about yourself and who you are interested in meeting. It takes the chance out of the chance encounter. When you find someone you want to talk with, you can send unlimited, free text and image messages to them, and make and receive free calls; all within the WhosHere application.

WhosHere runs on Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S and iPod touch and is available for free download on Apple’s iTunes App Store and can easily be found at myRete.com/download. Users of WhosHere can find online help at myRete.com/support and on YouTube (http://YouTube.com/WhosHerebyMyRete). About myRete™

About WhosHere and myRete, Inc. WhosHere has approximately 750,000 users. Over 425 million free text messages and 11.5 million free images have been sent via WhosHere.

myRete, Inc. was founded in March 2008 with the singular focus of bringing an exceptional proximity networking experience to the iPhone and its millions of users. myRete’s product line includes the WhosHere client and WhosHere application server. Rete is Italian for “network”. Offices: San Mateo, CA and Alexandria, VA.

As part of its commitment to providing the best photo sharing experience for customers, KODAK Gallery launched a new application that allows users to share Gallery photos directly to their Facebook streams and profile pages. In a few quick clicks, Gallery members simply select favorite photos or albums and click the link to share on Facebook.
“KODAK Gallery’s Facebook application is part of the faster, more user-friendly Gallery, which helps members easily share their pictures in multiple ways,” said Victor Cho, General Manager, KODAK Gallery and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “The new KODAK Gallery was rebuilt from the ground up based on customer feedback, and this new Facebook application delivers a fun and easy way for people to share their pictures.”
To celebrate the launch and to thank customers for their help in creating the new site, KODAK Gallery is looking to give away ONE MILLION free photo gifts until November 20, 2009. The free gifts include all of Kodak Gallery’s great photo products valued at $15 or less including photo books, picture mugs, photo cards, mouse pads and prints. KODAK Gallery has enlisted the help of Thanks Man to help make the campaign a success. View Thanks Man’s video adventures of his quest to give out a million free KODAK Gallery gifts here.
Features of the new KODAK Gallery include: faster upload speeds to KODAK Gallery, streamlined creation tools and exclusive Photo Card and Photo Book designs.
About Kodak
As the world’s foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.
To learn more, visit http://www.kodak.com and follow our blogs and more at http://www.kodak.com/go/followus.
Millions of people worldwide manage and share their pictures and create photo gifts online at KODAK Gallery –join today at www.kodakgallery.com

JabberMonkey.com, a new Social Expression site that promotes self expression is now accepting sign-ups for its Beta Program, the final phase of testing before national launch. Interested participants can sign up at www.jabbermonkey.com to reserve a spot as a beta user. Anyone who signs up now will have first look and will be notified when the Beta Program begins in December by email.

JabberMonkey.com is a Social Expression site that allows its members to post questions about any topic, issue, current event, or news item that is of interest. JM members will be able to link videos, articles, photos, and even audio files with questions that are created by the member or uploaded from the Internet. Questions will then be available to other JabberMonkey members from anywhere in the world to vote, make comments and express their opinions. Members of JabberMonkey will be able to create a profile, network with friends, blog and communicate with friends, family and others through text chat and free video/voice calling. Also, members can create a group page, which will allow them to post questions, communicate, blog, share pictures, videos, and chat with other group members. Contests will be going on giving away valuable prizes during the beta program, stay tuned for more info as we get closer.

JabberMonkey.com is free to use and the company is looking for individuals that are avid Internet users who will play with the site and provide feedback them about what they like or dislike about JabberMonkey.

About JabberMonkey.com – JabberMonkey is a website owned by Calibrus which started development in 2008 to evolve the Social Network to a site for Social Expression, Jabbermonkey.com is the premier site for expressing and gathering public opinion on a global scale. For more information on JabberMonkey.com visit the JabberMonkey website at http://jabbermonkey.com

In a world where people are connected across multiple sites on the Internet, TimesJobs.com, the leading Job Portal from The Times Group, for the first time, allows users to aggregate their profile information from everywhere at one place, to give recruiters a comprehensive view of themselves, with TimesJobs Global Connect.

TimesJobs Global Connect will enable users to link all their professional online identities and work to their TimesJobs.com resume. A candidate can link their chat ID’s, professional profiles, websites, blog links, embed work samples, etc. in their TimesJobs.com Resume.

By viewing candidates’ TimesJobs Global Connect profiles, an employer will gain greater insight with a more comprehensive view of them before they contact them for future interviews, thus greatly reducing the recruitment & selection process.

Speaking on the TimesJobs Global Connect feature, Mr. R. Sundar, CEO, Times Business Solutions Ltd. said: “We are in an age where everyone has a presence on many places on the internet. We continuously examine & analyse modern & practical online innovations and leverage them into new services which anyone in any industry can use. With TimesJobs Global Connect, our users can now experience a whole new ease & speed of online hiring with the power of Social Media.”

“With TimesJobs Global Connect, candidates can project to potential employers a comprehensive profile which, apart from their resume, will also intelligently highlight his work & achievements from sites like PeerPower.com, LinkedIn, Blogs, Slideshare, YouTube, Google docs etc, on the same platform…Connecting with potential employers is also enhanced with the addresses of various messengers like Gtalk and Yahoo, apart from connecting via phone and email.” added Mr. Nilanjan Roy, Product Head, TimesJobs.com.

TimesJobs Global Connect offers users a variety of means through which they can showcase their professional work and achievements. Features of Global Connect are as follows:

· Connect Via Chat

With TimesJobs Global Connect feature, users can now chat with recruiters directly by adding their Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AIM, and/ or Skype accounts to their TimesJobs Global Connect profile. Adding a messenger ID to their profile allows them to cut their future in-person interview in half as it will allow recruiters to directly chat with the candidate online on their instant messengers while they view their resume.

· Link a Site

It is crucial that the candidate makes sure that ‘the story’ a recruiter puts together from viewing their profile is as up-to-date as possible. With TimesJobs Global Connect, a candidate’s website, blog, PeerPower.com & LinkedIn profiles can now be leveraged to aid recruiters in being well informed of a candidate’s professional achievements well before they contact them. This is an important feature, with which recruiters can view samples of a potential hire’s work, and see what they are like professionally. Even the websites of the companies, a candidate has worked for or contributed toward can be added.

· Showcase Your Work

With TimesJobs Global Connect, a candidate can also embed their Slideshare presentations, relevant videos from YouTube, and documents from Google Docs. Videos uploaded could be of events they have organised, award functions, or even a personal introduction, however, they should be professional in nature to enhance their TimesJobs.com profile.

These brand-new TimesJobs Global Connect features, allow candidates to professionally connect to recruiters and allow a 360° view of their professional profile without leaving their workplace. It allows a recruiter to get an idea of who the candidate is and what they can do before their interview call.

Alterian (LSE: ALN) the leading international integrated marketing platform provider announced that full-service marketing firm Epsilon has expanded a long standing partnership with Alterian by selecting the SM2 software solution to help deliver social media monitoring and analysis to Epsilon clients. Under a new multiyear agreement, SM2 will enable Epsilon to monitor communications and attitudes across the social media spectrum quicker and in a more structured fashion with richer data.

Epsilon is a leading full-service marketing firm providing integrated, data-driven multichannel marketing strategies for clients across a number of industries. With forty years of rich experience, over two thousand employees and twenty offices around the globe, Epsilon works with the leading global brands enriching marketing strategies across a number of channels including email and digital, direct mail, social media, mobile and more.

“Epsilon has a long history of working with clients to measure all aspects of marketing activity and determine the best marketing strategies,” said Michael Penney, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Analytic Consulting at Epsilon. “Social media has become increasingly important to marketers as consumers adopt new forums and technologies at a rapid pace. Epsilon helps clients understand what is being said in new channels and the implications of those comments and conversations. SM2 allows us to help improve not just clients’ social media marketing strategies, but enhance their overall multichannel marketing efforts, with the best and most timely information. We are delighted to be expanding on our already successful partnership with Alterian.”

SM2 is a software-as-a-service solution designed specifically for Brands and Agencies to monitor, measure, analyze and respond to social media activity. SM2 offers comprehensive coverage of social media, automated in-depth measurement and analytics and the immediate delivery of results.

“The volume and value of conversations on social media are exploding. Marketers need to move from considering social media as an experimental channel, and start considering its impact on the entire marketing mix,” said Michael Fisher, Alterian’s Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, The Americas. “Epsilon has four decades of expertise and significant experience supporting their clients with multi-channel marketing strategies. We are delighted that they have selected SM2 to deliver insight and analysis of social media to help refine and further improve the communication strategies that they recommend and deliver for their clients. We have seen a great deal of interest amongst our partners and customers in our SM2 offering, and we look forward to building on the success of our partnership with Epsilon to-date with this new offering.”

What started as a small experiment 24 hours ago to use the lists function on Twitter to create county lists in Ireland has now snowballed into projects covering the UK and Ireland.

Simply Zesty, an online PR and social media agency based in Dublin, are using crowdsourcing to create county lists of Twitter users. The company have set a limit of 72 hours per country, to gather as many users as possible. The idea is to create lists by area that anyone can use and also to produce a map showing which areas are the most active on Twitter. The experiment started in Ireland on Tuesday morning and in under than 24 hours they had spread it to the UK and America, due to the high demand.

The project itself shows the power of social media and is an example of just how quickly news can spread. The UK and US experiments were featured on Techcrunch, which has contributed to the snowball effect.

The project works through crowd-sourcing as people have to send a tweet to be included. Word of mouth is key to the success. To take part is simple and for each country users just have to tweet the following (replacing the place name with their county/state) :

Ireland “I want to get listed #TwitterCork add yourself here http://bit.ly/2C70pP”

England “I want to get listed #TwitterEssex add yourself here http://bit.ly/44DRZ5”

America “I want to get listed #TwitterCalifornia add yourself here http://bit.ly/40ZL4M”

Lauren Fisher, cofounder of Simply Zesty says “This is a really exciting experiment and we just can’t believe how quickly it’s growing. We never thought that just 24 hours ago we would be doing this in the UK and America. It’s certainly putting the new Lists function in Twitter through the paces. We started off doing the Ireland list manually but have now got people working on scripts to help us out a bit! When Twitter lists first launched there was a mixed reaction and some people weren’t too sure if they were useful. We hope we’ve found a great use for them and I can’t wait to see which areas are the most active on Twitter.”

Niall Harbison, cofounder of Simply Zesty says “We wanted to create something inherently useful that people all over the world would use. Imagine moving to Devon from abroad and being able to add 500 local people instantly to your network. The possibilities for this are endless”

TempWorks Software announces introduction of their web 2.0 social media suite that integrates the best of lead generation (/products/services/lead-generation-services.aspx), web analytics, CRM, Twitter (/), email marketing and content management systems. The suite has underscored success both for Tempworks own marketing and sales and that of key clients.

In 2007 Tempworks Software CEO Gregg Dourgarian saw rapid changes in how buyers were making decisions. Trade show booths and industry journal ads were becoming less effective each year. Telemarketing, cold-calling and direct mail were suffering the same fate.

“The writing was on the wall. Interruptive selling no longer worked,” says Dourgarian. “Prospects didn’t want to listen when sales wanted to talk. And sales didn’t know when prospects were ready to talk.”

Now instead of cold calling, the sales staff wakes up each morning with a stack of sales ready leads harvested off of the Social Media Suite.

In response, Tempworks deployed various web 2.0 lead generation techniques and quietly built its own suite of web 2.0 sales tools for its internal purposes. “The results were astounding,” says Dourgarian. “New business started coming, and now we have our implementation schedule booked out to the middle of next year. Because of our success, we’re using the same tools to drive recruitment.”

Too Good Not to Share with Clients.

The internal tools got so good at driving sales ready leads that the company decided in 2008 to make the system work for clients and re-architected them into an offering called the Social Media Software Suite. “We had to take this to our customers. It’s in our DNA.”

The Social Mediate Suite includes:

– Social CRM. Social CRM integrates social media into the core Tempworks end-user applications. Social CRM includes powerful Twitter, Facebook and email marketing features that make social media a first class citizen of Tempworks flagship Enterprise application.

– Web2Lead. Web2Lead allows sales people to monitor website visitors real-time and plan sales activities accordingly. Instead of spending their day making interruptive sales calls, sales professionals can identify sales ready prospects and provide instant, consultative support.

– Content Management System (CMS). CMS allows organizations to dynamically manage its website without ongoing IT involvement. Each practice area can have control over its own content. CMS integrates the best practices of web 2.0 tactics including search engine optimization, landing page templates, and CRM system integration.

– LandingPageMaster. LandingPageMaster gets visitors to raise their hands, identify themselves and to announce their needs. Combining elements of web design with carefully prepared pay-per-click and search engine optimization programs, LandingPageMaster drives buyers and candidates in large numbers to the appropriate web pages and makes their visits worthwhile, reducing bounce rates and maximizing conversions.

Already one Tempworks client, Dantemps has taken components of the package which helped it drive tremendous growth (/press-releases/dan-temps.aspx)during the last 12 months. According to Dantemps CEO Jarrod Daniel “We implemented Tempworks Software in October of 2006 [… As a result, Dan Temps’ new friends have been transformed into new employees and clients, allowing the company to grow and expand at a time when most competitors are struggling.”

Unlike the many individual web 2.0 lead generation packages out there, Tempworks integrates all the components into a seamless offering. “There are great tools out there like Google Analytics that allow you to do charts and other summary reporting on your web visitors,” says Dourgarian. “But they don’t identify who those visitors are, and don’t lead you with a single click from a web visit to a contact record like Tempworks.”

People think internet browsing is anonymous. Nothing can be further from the truth.

Once the company cracked the code of identifying web visitors, it was a snap to integrate it with the core Tempworks CRM/ERP package. Now email, Twitter and Facebook are first class citizens in the Tempworks end-user application.

About TempWorks Software
Founded in 1994, TempWorks provides a full suite of enterprise staffing solutions. Designed to automate and streamline all facets of a staffing firm’s daily operation, TempWorks Software offers fully integrated front and back-office staffing software, web portals for customers, employees, applicants and vendor management, and many additional modules. From recruiting to payroll and everything in between, TempWorks Software puts technology to work for staffing firms and their clients.

For more information about TempWorks, please visit http://www.tempworks.com