Source: http://socialpress.co.za/blogging/create-a-free-blog-on-socialpress/

South African entrepreneurs can create a free blog on SocialPress. This South African business social network has a range of online business networking features. You can set up your profile, list your company details, join or start a few groups, friend-up some people and create a free blog. The SocialPress network is all about networking and business opportunities.

Why do I need a blog?

The answer is simple – if you want to be recognised as the expert in your market and at the same time build brand authority for your products or services, a blog is must.

Having an informative blog can be a powerful business tool. Blogs have already changed the way businesses communicate with their clients and future prospects. You don’t need a one way broadcasting system in place any more by only talking in a one way direction. You can now engage, interact and converse your messages through blogs. Your blog can be personalized to be more effective in getting the attention of your targeted audience.

Content is king!

Content is king, but so is communication. To establish a discussion, you need good content to start communicating. All this is possible with your blog. By writing informative and interesting topics that your targeted readers will find valuable, you are opening up new doorways to start communicating with your targeted readers and future prospects.

All this can be done by creating a free blog on SocialPress.

SocialPress blog benefits

First of all, SocialPress is a South African social network for entrepreneurs. Creating a free blog on this network enables you to directly come in contact with like-minded SocialPress members. Once you have created your free blog on SocialPress, you can choose from a range of themes available that you can use. Your new blog will be listed on the dedicated SocialPress blogs directory together with your latest blog post where other members can view the latest headline of your blog.

Every time that you publish a new blog post it will be added to your SocialPress profile activity, where other SocialPress members can view a short excerpt of your blog post and click on the activity link to read the complete blog article.

The new blog post that you have published will also be listed on the “Sitewide blog posts” widget that can be found on the left hand side underneath the recent activity members avatars with a link to your blog post.

Register for free

Register for free on SocialPress and create your free blog!

MediaPress – the content sharing social network for bloggers features complete Twitter integration. Members can update their status directly from MediaPress to Twitter by selecting the checkbox “Twitter” on their profile updates, forum posts and the home page.

When a member logs into MediaPress a message underneath the status update with a link will be displayed if the member wants to start using Twitter with MediaPress.  On the MediaPress Twitter settings page the member first needs to authorise their Twitter account with MediaPress by simply clicking the authorise button. The authorization is done by Twitter.

Once authorised, members can add additional settings on how they want to use Twitter with MediaPress.  Tweets can be synchronized automatically between Twitter and MediaPress and they can select to add their “shortened” url next to their Tweets. View the image for details.

You are not limited to 140 characters!

If the option is selected to display their profile link on their MediaPress tweets, a link on their Twitter tweet will be displayed where it will link to the full content of the Tweet.

Members can also Tweet directly from Twitter to MediaPress by adding the filter #mediapress in their Tweets. This will import their tweets to MediaPress to share with their friends and other members. The tweet on MediaPress is displayed with a link back to the original Twitter profile.

source: http://socialpress.co.za/social-networking/register-and-login-with-facebook-on-socialpress/

You can now register and login with your Facebook account on SocialPress . This is a quick way for users to register and login to this South African business social network for entrepreneurs that does not want to register via the normal registration page on SocialPress. Users can still register on SocialPress if they do not want to register/login with their Facebook account.

Members that are already registered on SocialPress can also login with their Facebook account if the email address that they have registered with on SocialPress is the same as the email address connected to their Facebook account. If the email address is different on Facebook to the one they have used on SocialPress, a new user account will be created for that user and one account must be deleted.  Check your email address!

New members

Members that registered/logged in with their Facebook details can also add profile information to their SocialPress account so that other SocialPress members can connect with them. Members can add and update their profile image (avatar), personal information, contact and business information including links to their blog and website, social network connections, etc.

SocialPress is a South African business social network so it is important to have an updated profile as your profile page is the page that other members can view for more information about you and to come in contact with you and your business.

Facebook status updates

SocialPress members can also authorize their Facebook account with their SocialPress profile on the network to submit status updates directly from SocialPress to Facebook. On the Facebook settings page of SocialPress member’s profiles, members can choose to include their SocialPress profile link on any status updates that they submit to Facebook so that they can share information with their SocialPress and Facebook friends.

On any forum topic or group activity, members can tick the box under the textarea “to facebook” to submit the update to their Facebook profile.

The Facebook login and status update features on SocialPress is a great way to start interacting and connecting with other members on this South African social network . Use your Facebook account to register and login.