Applications

The Four Community Building Blocks

	KickApps' social networking features enable you to build an engaged community around your brand in which members express themselves and connect with others. Each of your members gets his or her own customizable profile, the ability to add friends, participate in groups, send private messages, and more.
	Self-expression and content discovery are the linchpins of driving participation in your community. KickApps' UGC video, photo, audio and blogging features enable your members to easily upload, share, rate and comment on media they're passionate about.
	Online video is one of the most powerful engagement engines available, and KickApps lets you use it exactly the way you want. 'Program' your editorial or user-generated videos into customizable players in which you completely control the content. Plus, everything in your community is video-enabled, including message boards and blogs.
	All content can and should be Widgetized--let your community take your site's content and share it with the world. With it's WYSIWYG interface, the KickApps App Studio lets you easily create and deploy customized, viral Widgets that can be stylized to match you brand in a matter of minutes. Give your content wings!

Two Sides of KickApps

There are two sides to the KickApps platform: the community-facing features are the things like media sharing and profiles that you use to enhance your site's user experience; and management features--the tools that make it simple for you to configure, customize, and run your community on a daily basis.

Community-Facing Features

• My Home
  The My Home page is the starting point for every member of your community.The individualized My Home features real-time RSS feeds about the community's and their friends' activity. These features are designed to keep your members engaged and your community lively and active. 
• Media Sharing and Mobile Uploading
  Members of your community can upload, share and rate your site's media (UGC and editorial), including videos, photos, and audio files. KickApps also supports mobile uploads for videos and photos to allow your members to generate content on-the-go.
• Profile Pages
  Each member can create a personalized profile page with a unique URL. Their unique home on your site, your members can see all their uploaded media and blogs in one place, and their friends can leave them messages and comments. 
• Viral Widgets
  Members can syndicate their favorite content from your community to some of the Web's most trafficked sites, including MySpace, iGoogle, WordPress and Blogger, with a simple mouse click. Or, they can easily copy/paste the embed code.
• Messaging
  Members get individual inboxes where they can receive video and audio-enabled messages from you or their peers.
• Friending and Groups
  Powering the connectivity of your site, members can easily 'friend' others as well as create groups within your community that receives real-time feeds of group activities, including media uploads, comments and new members. 
• Blogs and Podcasts
  Any member can post his or her own blog or podcast into the community.
• Message Boards
  The Ajax interface makes it easy for members to participate in discussions, thus encouraging activity and engagement. Additionally, thread-based, webcam-enabled discussion boards are easy to organize and moderate.

Management Features

• The KickApps Affiliate Center
  Create, deploy and manage your entire community from the KickApps Affiliate Center. This powerful tool enables publishers and developers to control every aspect of the community (members and media) from one place.
• Industry's First Self-Service Widget Builder
  Create custom, branded Widgets that allows your members to syndicate your community's content across the web. The KickApps Widget Builder is the industry's first self-service tool that enables every publisher and developer to easily create their own viral Widgets that can be embedded on any website including the world's largest social network, MySpace.
• Media Management
  Knowing and controlling all media is a crucial requirement for managing your KickApps community. Using the KickApps Affiliate Center you can easily monitor and set rules for reviewing each piece of media uploaded into your community, instantaneously rejecting obscene or copyrighted content. 
• Member Management
  The ability to control the membership of your community is as important as managing your site's media. KickApps provides you with a detailed view of all your community members and enables you to foster relationships with them through direct messaging as well as assigning different levels of permissions. Additionally, you can review and edit any profile and disable or ban troublemakers.
• Advertising Inventory Control
  An active community with engaged members will create incremental advertising inventory for your site. KickApps enables full control of the available advertising slots on your KickApps-powered pages.
• Detailed Reporting
  Generate high-level or detailed historical reports on site traffic, media uploads, members and more. All exportable to variety of formats for data mining.
• Content Management System (CMS) Compatible
  KickApps is compatible with all major CMS systems, including Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. You can use our Single-Sign On (SSO) APIs to add social features to your CMS-powered site quickly and easily.