Last month Voloper introduced our Social Media toolkit, a one-stop solution for configuring and managing major social media feeds. Instead of having to dig around various web sites to figure out how to hand-code a bunch of Javascript to bring your Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube feeds into your web site, the Social Media toolkit simplifies and unifies the process. The Social Media toolkit lets you fill in a few simple web forms and then it generates simple placeholders. You insert a simple, clean placeholder into your HTML (instead of a block of Javascript) and the Social Media Toolkit pulls in your content.

Push Me Pull You

Of course "pull" is only half the equation. Voloper is now in the process of adding Social Media Push technology to its suite of modules. The concept is simple: as you add content to your own web site, a lot of the content can be re-used within the context of your social media venues such as Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. Wouldn't it be nice when you clicked a Post or Upload button that content was not only updated to your site but sent out into your social media stream?

Voloper's fabled development lab (located on an uncharted skull-shaped island some place near the Arctic circle) is currently testing Social Media Push functionality added to our Photo Sweet module. Photo Sweet is actually a new addition to the Voloper family. Well, kind of new. Back in February 2009, Voloper merged its image related modules (Picture Gallery, Postcard Mailer, Verticle/Horizontal Scrollers) into a single unified Photo Sweet module which could draw upon the same database of images. Photo Sweet has been extended further by giving you the ability to link it to your Flickr account. Images and image descriptions added to Photo Sweet can be simultaneously pushed out to Flickr.

Why Flickr?

Well, hopefully you've branded your Flickr account with your company URL so people can mosey their way back to your home page if they're particularly taken with the utility, if not the brilliance, of your photos. Flickr is well indexed by Google and Yahoo. It's another cluster of key words a search engine can munch on and ultimately generate traffic for your site.

When?

We'll be releasing several modules with Social Media Push functionality shortly after the new year (which isn't as far away as it sounds ... not to panic you or anything). Keep an eye on this space for the heads up on which modules are getting Social Media Push technology and a formal release date.