The Konnects platform

Konnects increases engagement within your online newspaper community

Konnects is a social media platform designed for online publications, magazines and newspapers to bring interactivity to your organization's website. Our platform is easy to deploy and our solutions team can assist you in getting your online community up and running quickly.

• Dynamic layout

  Choose the colors, fonts, and banners to give your online newspaper community a unique look and feel that matches the branding of your organization.

• Quick deployment

  Integrating Konnects into your website is easy to do. We also support APIs and customized integration.

• Your site and your data

  Data generated within your online community is owned by your organization.

• Secure hosted solution

  We host your online social network community for you and keep it up and running 99.9% of the time.

• Viral growth engine

  Each Konnects powered online community comes with its own email importers to allow your members to grow your audience base for you. As your community grows by word of mouth, so will your brand recognition, marketing opportunities, and ability to generate additional revenue.

• Community permission control

  Set your community as "Private" and allow only specific individuals to join or set your community to "Public" and allow anyone to join.

• Web-based analytics

  Online community owners can learn more about their membership base by leveraging demographic data and usage behavior within their community. Use this feature to quickly identify who the most influential members are, where they are from, and what features drive them. With this information you can engage these visitors and increase revenue.

• Integrated single sign-on

  Konnects offers single sign-on with your existing site, allowing your existing customers to access your community seamlessly.

• Events

  Post events and invite specific members from your community to attend. Events are a great way to organize groups for collaboration, knowledge sharing, or just to build relationships.

• Interest groups

  Allows the users of your online newspaper community to join targeted discussions and conversations.

• Community activity alerts

  Keep your community informed on what's happening in real time with community activity alerts. Online community alerts are automatically generated to keep your audience informed and engaged.

• Messaging

  Send mass messages to your entire online magazine or newspaper community at once.

• Widgets

  Incorporate pieces of your online community throughout your website via Konnects widgets.

• Advertising controls

  Post your own advertisements or utilize online advertising networks to earn extra revenue. Using Konnects, you can implement Pay-for-Performance or Impression based advertising opportunities. Analytics are available for measuring the success of your online advertising.

• Feature controls

  Turn on or off specific features within your online community (i.e. Jobs, Classifieds, News feeds, Events, and Interest Groups).

• Member management

  You can view the profiles of all of your members in one centralized location and lock out members that are misbehaving.

• Language filter

  Foul language is censored automatically via the Konnects platform to ensure a clean and professional community.

• Abuse system

  Individual users can report abuse or inappropriate content. Konnects also limits the amount of messages that can be sent within a 24 hour period between members that do not share an affiliation. This stops mass solicitation or spamming efforts from aggressive business professionals.

Value added services

• Strategy consulting

  Let Konnects help you achieve your desired business objectives. We can help you develop a social media application strategy for your online newspaper or magazine on how to best leverage and grow your community over time.

• Content moderation

  Konnects offers content moderation services to partners. This can alleviate overhead for organizations with tight resources.

• New feature design

  Konnects is working on new features every day to give your organization more engaging tools for your members. We take your direct input into account when designing new features to ensure a great client experience. If there are features you would like that we currently don't offer, our team can configure a solution for you.

• Promotion

  Our team has experience in deploying and promoting online newspaper communities. We can create a plan that fits the needs of your organization to keep your online community growing and engaged.

• Customer service

  Konnects can handle all questions, concerns or reports of abuse for your community. This alleviates overhead for your organization.

• Monetization support

  Konnects can help you in identifying ways to monetizing your community.

• SEO Optimization

  Konnects is always working on your behalf to enhance traffic to your site by implementing the latest in Search Optimization (SEO) technologies. This helps grow your community and brings more free traffic to your online newspaper community.

• Security

  Konnects implements the latest in security protocols and software to ensure your community and its data are secure. We are hosted in a co-location facility located in Tacoma, WA with 24x7 monitoring.