Social media solutions provider ThePort Network announced that TownNews.com, a web hosting and content management system provider to the newspaper industry, has partnered to offer ThePort Social Media Suite to its customers. With ThePort Social Media Suite, TownNews.com’s more than 1,500 customers can easily integrate branded “MySpace-like” communities into their existing web sites and transform them into dynamic and engaging hyper-local news portals for increased reader engagement and advertising revenues.
“Providing community newspapers with state-of-the-art technologies that deliver a positive online reader experience and stimulate additional advertising revenue opportunities has always been our core mission,” said Marc Wilson, CEO of TownNews.com. “Our partnership with ThePort further extends our ability to serve our customers by offering a robust social media solution that will allow them to harness the power of community and user generated content to drive web traffic and create additional advertising and sponsorship opportunities.”
Originally posted on August 15, 2007 @ 12:06 pm