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Besttoolbars Solutions for Web 2.0 Communities

Attract more customers with the latest wave of Internet functionality

The popularity of Web 2.0 is growing - and users are looking for more and better ways to experience the benefits of Web 2.0 such as blogging, voting, ranking, tagging, and social networking. Custom toolbars from Besttoolbars are a great way to enrich Web 2.0 functionality beyond the web to the desktop:giving you an edge over the competition!

Build an online community around your toolbar

Besttoolbars customization options and rich features allow you to develop a unique toolbar that attracts and builds a Web 2.0 community for your website. Besttoolbars community-building features include:

  • Community message posting
  • Building "buddy lists" with the ability to communicate with and track buddies' activities online
  • Direct communications between members
  • Website tagging and ranking features
  • Direct link sharing
  • Instant notifications about community news
  • The ability to monitor community feedback
  • Offering suggested search results based on member rankings
  • Scripting on top of the toolbar platform, allowing you to enhance the web sites being browsed by applying mashups to them for extra information, visualizations, and your exclusive services.

You can mix and match these features to build a unique offering for your user community.

Integrated desktop functionality provides rich interaction

  • With Besttoolbars, your website is fully integrated with the toolbar, transforming your website into a real-time Web 2.0 community. The toolbar allows users to interact with your website features and other community members, whether they are on your site or not.
  • The Besttoolbars web interface brings desktop interaction to the web, making your website more familiar and comfortable to use by providing the rich desktop-to-web interaction that Web 2.0 users are seeking.
  • Besttoolbars Javascript APIs can be used to integrate browsing with Web 2.0 web-based APIs. The toolbar interfaces directly with the applications to extend their features to the desktop, making them easier to access and use.

Increase site traffic and visitor stickiness

  • Besttoolbars provides an always-present connection with the community and a direct link to your website.
  • Besttoolbars attracts users with a complete set of Web 2.0 favorites, such as video messaging, radio tuners, RSS feeds, and widgets, along with other popular interactive Web 2.0 features such as tagging, ranking, highlighting, semantic web, and the ability to create and communicate with affinity groups.
  • The targeted offers, high-impact messages, and innovative marketing campaigns enabled by Besttoolbars are designed to drive traffic directly to your website.
  • The rich features, ease-of-use, and high engagement of Besttoolbars create user stickiness and help grow your user community faster.

Communicate more effectively

  • Real time delivery of messages, offers, news, and information allows you to communicate instantly with your user community.
  • Besttoolbars' RSS feeds, video, audio, and text messages provide high-impact ways to communicate with your users.
  • Besttoolbars gives you the ability to create and send surveys for instant feedback from members.
  • With Besttoolbars, you will know when individual members are online, allowing you to reach them directly with custom messages, product offers, and news tailored to their preferences.

Understand your customer

  • By using the tracking and statistics capabilities of the Toolbar Server, you can gain insight into your users' motives and patterns, allowing you to develop special offers, services, and communications based on their preferences.

Personalize your users' web experience

  • Web 2.0 is all about making the web experience more personal. Custom toolbars provide a compelling set of personalized web interaction features including personalized search, email shortcuts, application quick-launch features, and web navigation aids.

Bring the community to the desktop

  • By using Desktop Toolbar from Besttoolbars, you can extend all of the Web 2.0 features of Besttoolbars to the desktop for even greater community interaction and engagement. Members can access features and receive messages even when their browser is not open.
  • Desktop widgets are very popular. Desktop toolbars from Besttoolbars can be used to serve widely used desktop widgets such as clocks, weather reports, games, and many more.