Simple Website Creation Meets Simple Community Creation

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 8, 2010

Tal.ki, the embeddable forums service, announced today their first partnership with the fast growing, website creation service, Yola.com.

Tal.ki recently launched their embeddable forums services in April 2010 and have been growing at a rate of over 50 new communities per day. It is expected that this new partnership with double the rate of communities created.

Today’s announcement means that the millions of website creators on Yola.com can now add a community forum to their site in a matter of seconds. For a website creator, it’s as simple as ‘dragging and dropping’ the Tal.ki Forums plugin from the Advanced Widgets toolbar directly onto their page. The forum will automatically match the colors and layout of the page. Paul Bragiel, Tal.ki’s CEO said “Today’s partnership with Yola.com will lead to the next generation of social interactivity on individually created websites.”

Tal.ki forums are unique in that once added to a website, they make it very easy for visitors to join and start participating in a conversation. Unlike typical forums, visitors do not need to create a new account profile, instead, they choose to login with their favorite social networking service, such as facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, wordpress, and a handful of other providers.

A Tal.ki forum allows a website owner to instanly add community functionality to their website. While there are many existing collaboration tools, from wikis, to blogs, to tweets, a forum still serves the unique experience of online community discussion. Where any member has the ability to start a new topic of conversation and generate a discussion from the rest of the community. This is opposed to the top-down approach through blogs and commenting systems for visitors.

Features available in this partnership:

An Easy-to-use Admin Panel embedded directly into the website
Private and Public forums
Email Notifications on new replies
Automatic Security Patches and upgrades
Permalinking support for sharing topics easily between members
Traditionally forum BBCode posting
Uploading images and embedding other media, such as video.

Example of Tal.ki embedded into a Yola site:

http://globalofftopic.yolasite.com

About Tal.ki

Tal.ki is a service for creating and embedding a forum into an existing website. Forums grow faster on Tal.ki compared to traditional forum software thanks to it’s simplicity for members to join by using their Facebook or Twitter logins. Tal.ki was launched out of Lefora.com, now home to over 100,000 forums. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For additional information, please visit http://tal.ki/

About Yola, Inc.

Yola offers a free website creation tool that empowers small businesses, non-profits and everyday users to easily create professional quality websites. Yola’s intuitive drag and drop technology enables users to easily incorporate a variety of content including YouTube videos, Google Maps, PayPal shopping carts and many more without needing any technical skills. Privately-held Yola, backed by Reinet Fund, is the recipient of numerous industry accolades including The Industry Standard 100, a Fast Company Fast 50 Reader Favorite and BusinessWeek’s 50 Best Tech Startups. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For additional information, please visit http://www.yola.com or call 415-227-0250.

Media Contacts:

Paul Bragiel

CEO, Tal.ki

paul(at)tal(dot)ki

Vincent Lauria

VP of Product, Tal.ki

vincent(at)tal(dot)ki

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Simple Website Creation Meets Simple Community Creation

MarkdownMail Application for IOS Devices Integrates with MailChimp for Campaign Creation On the Go With iPhones and IPads

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 26, 2011

MarkdownMail, a popular iPhone/iPad app, announced today that the newest release includes the option to send content directly into MailChimp, providing a true on-the-go platform for MailChimp subscribers to create and edit content. Created by Second Gear, a Mac and iOS development firm based out of Carmel IN, the updated MarkdownMail app is a new integration supported by MailChimps $ 1 million fund supporting the development of integrations with its platform.

The idea behind launching the MailChimp Integration Fund this past November was simple: We basically want to help small startups with small, paying projects. Projects that involve integrating their apps with the MailChimp API, explains says Ben Chesnut, Co-founder and CEO of MailChimp. Third party integrations are an important part of who we are and we hope effective integrations like MarkdownMail will encourage other businesses to follow suit.

Providing a new way to bring content in from an iOS device, MarkdownMail is integrated with MailChimp so users can compose HTML content on their iPhones, iPod touches and iPads and send it directly to their MailChimp accounts as a new campaign. Available for $ 3.99 through the iTunes App Store, MailChimp is offering a credit for MailChimp users who download and use the app and use it within thirty days.

MarkdownMail uses MailChimp’s Objective-C wrapper, ChimpKit, to interact email campaign data. This open source library allows iOS developers to connect their apps seamlessly to MailChimp’s API. Thousands of developers already use MailChimp to stay in touch with customers. Now, ChimpKit helps them build their list right inside of the app.

The MailChimp Integration Fund is now accepting applications from anyone interested in building an integration on the MailChimp platform. Possible categories for development range from sign-up modules to more complex data sharing. Development can also focus on increasing the utility of an existing integration or plugin. Interested parties should complete a short form online at http://www.mailchimp.com/about/integration-fund to begin the application process. Funds will be applied on a per-project basis and the amount of funds allocated to any one project will be determined based on the requirements of each specific project.

About MailChimp

MailChimp is a leading self-service email provider that is improving the user experience by providing seamless, yet powerful email marketing features that are easy and affordable enough for a small business to get started, but powerful enough for a large company looking for an enterprise level solution. With headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, MailChimp has 10 years of experience making it easy for customers to create professional email marketing communication. They offer users a fast and robust application for creating, targeting, delivering and tracking their email-marketing efforts. Customers enjoy cutting-edge features, like designer templates, advanced social segmentation and data, geo targeting, and free reports with every campaign. MailChimp’s platform uses an open API, and its already integrated with many third party applications including Salesforce, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. Plus, they provide a directory of third-party API Experts who can help customers set up the specific integration needed for their business. And best of all, prices start at free. All the information youve ever wanted is available at http://www.mailchimp.com.

Media Contact:

Caren West

Caren West PR

404.614.0006

caren (at) carenwestpr (dot) com

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MarkdownMail Application for IOS Devices Integrates with MailChimp for Campaign Creation On the Go With iPhones and IPads

40 Free Wordpress Video Tutorials Now Available for Easy Wordpress Administration and Website Creation

Tulsa, OK (PRWEB) November 25, 2012

According to WPMU, 72.4 million websites are powered by WordPress as of the end of 2011. Internet Marketer Tony Darrick Baker, recognized the power of wordpress in 2008 and has since developed a variety of sites using the WordPress self-hosted software and a variety of freely available and premium plugins.

“WordPress just makes the process of quickly creating a powerful website into something simple. Content producers can typically create a complete site and start populating it with content, often in less than one day,” said Baker.

The Free WordPress Video Tutorials include detailed instructions on how to:

Understand and use the wordpress dashboard.
Create New Pages and New Posts
Use the Visual Editor and Upload Images
Organize, Schedule and Manage Content
And much more.

Baker regularly provides marketing tips and inspirational thoughts through his blog and his Twitter profile. The marketing tips focus on search engine optimization, publicity, online visibility, and a variety of free and paid WordPress resources.

For more information, please visit: http://tonydbaker.com

About Tony Darrick Baker

Over the last 20 years, Tony Darrick Baker has served thousands of individuals, in all walks of life, throughout the United States and Canada, as an advisor, counselor, mentor, speaker, publisher, coach, and entrepreneur. Baker is dedicated to helping small businesses, entrepreneurs and independent marketing representatives build and expand their businesses through marketing.

Tony Darrick Baker is an accomplished speaker and has spoken at Internet Marketing Conferences throughout the United States. Baker has interviewed marketing experts around the world, including: Mark Victor Hansen, Brendon Burchard, Alex Mandossian, Lorri Morgan Ferro, James Roche, Lynn Rose, Van Crouch, Dan Roam, Derek Gehl, Jim Stovall, David Meerman Scott, and a variety of other top authors, speakers and thought leaders.

40 Free Wordpress Video Tutorials Now Available for Easy Wordpress Administration and Website Creation