Rich Media Widgets

Online communities are the next generation of social networking sites, and entertainment and social networking applications are emerging as the next powerful model. Continued growth of narrowly focused niche sites will be the next generation business social network. Widgets will provide and overwhelming value to the site’s visitors, as widgets are an engaging way to market products and services on social media, mixing targeted ads with their social search tools. It’s about discovering content, sharing it, using it to express yourself and to communicate. They are an outlet for creative minds in the real and virtual world. Development of distribution strategies for widgets should continue as they are another form of self expression for oneself. It is this mantra and methodology that ArtsOrigin.com, a site revolving around the art field designed to distribute art and to promote other artists along with a young budding online community, is aiming to adopt.

The significance of content based rich media widgets for entertainment publishing has become a vital asset. These widgets are digital alter egos connecting three dimensional virtual worlds which incorporate social networking with advertising interwoven into it. You can enhance your virtual presence and your virtual business networking will be made easy with better job prospects. Create a “virtual you” and interact with people you would have otherwise never met. The proliferation of data readily available online actually creates an opportunity for marketers to generate leads.

People are wowed with widgets, and authoring tool widgets are for the next generation of networking sites. People want to be famous, they want to be creative, and they want to be recognized. One example is a drag and drop Flash authoring tool built on Adobe’s Flex. Artsorigin.com is also striding to let users build sophisticated, multi-page widgets with media.

Approximately half (44 percent) of U.S. adults online are “content creators” – posting messages, running blogs, hosting personal sites, etc. More than half of 12-17 year olds use online social networking sites. There are already more than 70 million blogs, and a new one is launched every second. User generated videos account for 47 percent of total online videos streamed in the U.S. (See “Power to the People.” December 2007, for more about user generated content) Additionally, over half of the developers in scientific and technical fields see social networking as a communications and collaboration medium.

Small businesses including ArtsOrigin are increasingly turning to the internet web space to promote themselves. ArtsOrigin places emphasis on the term “social media site” rather than a “social networking site.” Three million photos are uploaded a day by users, and there is a real emphasis on self expression. ArtsOrigin aims to bolster that. Whether you are an editor, photographer, writer, artist, collector, producer, graphic designer, game designer, video maker, movie producer, book publisher, or a person in other industries including magazines, television, film, radio, newspapers, online media, and advertising, or someone who simply appreciates the field, ArtsOrigin can connect the dots for you and bring dormant ideas into the light. The premise behind our launch is to reach out to creative minds, recognizing their abilities, and bringing their best or abstract ideas into the light.