Connect with your audience
When we put together the ThriveConnect range of products, we were thinking about new ways for you to engage with your visitors, new ways to communicate, open up new dialogues, ways you can help your visitors interact with your website.
How do interactive web tools help?
Here are some examples of the benefits of products in the ThriveConnect range.
- Weblogs
Weblogs help to throw the doors of your business open and allow an informal and honest communciation of what's happening within your business. People like to think they are dealing with other people, not faceless corporations. Weblogs encourage authenticity.
- Forums
Forums establish your site as a place for a community to congregate. Visitors return regularly for genuine advice, to help other visitors, or simply to socialise.
- Image sharing
Visitors place their photographs on your site, creating a reciprocal relationship and encouraging brand loyalty.
ThriveConnect Products
AnswersExpertly display and manage frequently asked questions on your website with ThriveConnect Answers. This simple knowledge base application lets you efficiently manage common questions and answers for both public visitors and internal staff. With ThriveConnect Answers, users can search or browse questions, specify the helpfulness of answers and add comments. Meanwhile, staff can maintain quality on the site with handy reporting and review mechanisms. Keep your users and staff informed with ThriveConnect Answers. EventsDisplay and manage public event listings on your website with ThriveConnect Events. ThriveConnect Events' straightforward database style lets you create event listings yourself and accept approved event submissions from the public. Site visitors can browse events by location, date, category or keyword within a flexible display format. With built-in booking handling, RSS feed capability and public submission forms, ThriveConnect Events is the manageable way to promote your events online. ForumsDevelop your own online community with ThriveConnect Forums. This application provides a space for website visitors to engage with other visitors to your site or members of your staff via written, topic-based forums. With manual moderation of topics and messages, ThriveConnect Forums enables you to create a safe, professional online community that will encourage return visitors, generate discussion about your product and offer information and support to your site users. JobsDisplay employment vacancies and manage incoming job applications via your website with ThriveConnect Jobs. This straightforward application allows job vacancies to be added to your site, and lets you manage and moderate the listings with ease. Enable your site users to add their vacancies or submit job applications; streamline your business’ staff acquisition process; offer a useful, free tool to your business users - all with the addition of ThriveConnect Jobs. NoticesDevelop a sense of community on your website with ThriveConnect Notices. This application provides a space for web visitors to post, view and respond to public notices: items for sale; services on offer; accommodation wanted... ThriveConnect Notices is a handy tool for users and encourages return visits whilst allowing you to maintain the integrity of your website with moderation tools, offensive content filters and privacy features. Create your own community noticeboard with ThriveConnect Notices. |
OpinionsGauge your audience’s opinions and invite feedback on your site’s content with ThriveConnect Opinions. A community-style resource, ThriveConnect Opinions enables star rankings and anonymous feedback on items on your website from members of the public. The reply function lets you respond to comments - personalising the site experience for users. Engage with your users and find out what they think in a secure and encouraging environment with ThriveConnect Opinions. PollsGauge your visitors’ opinions in a fun, informal way with ThriveConnect Polls. ThriveConnect Polls lets you set up poll questions with a single or multi-choice answer format for your site visitors. With full administrative control you can create multiple polls, establish new polls as required and control each poll’s size. Get to know your site visitors a little better and have a bit of fun in the process with ThriveConnect Polls. SocialWatchMake social media work for you with ThriveConnect SocialWatch. This easy-to-use application scans social media sources (think Twitter, Flickr, Google Blog Comments…) for your chosen keywords and compiles the results in one place, ready for your review. Use the aggregated social content to your advantage: display customer images or videos on your site; respond to complaints you find in a blog or on Twitter; track the buzz surrounding your brand… SocialWatch can learn to identify the most relevant information, recognise negative and positive comments and can generate web feeds you can use to share information, images, and video with staff or on your website. SnapsLet your site visitors upload and share their photos on your website with ThriveConnect Snaps. User photography is increasingly sought after by today’s web users to gain a genuine third-party perspective of a place or experience. By incorporating visitor photos on your site, you offer new users an authentic, unbiased view of your product or business whilst maintaining the integrity of your organisation with the ThriveConnect Snaps’ pre-publish moderation system. Web CommentsShow the world what visitors have said about your business with ThriveConnect Web Comments. Using ThriveConnect Web Comments, aggregate and display great comments about your product from visitors’ blogs, social media sites, news articles...any online resource. Adding date stamps, country of origin and a link to the full comment establishes authenticity and enables users to further investigate previous visitors’ experiences. Today’s web users consistently seek unbiased, third-party opinions: provide them with ThriveConnect Web Comments. |