Involver

Like the proverbial shoemaker, I tend to get around to setting up some social services for my company later than I really should. I tend to road-test new services on my wine blog or personal accounts before recommending them to clients. And often it’s weeks or months later before I add them here.

Case in point is the Facebook page I just published for Acan Media mostly to demonstrate some cool new tools from a company called Involver. Since Facebook is part of an outpost strategy, my page is setup to aggregate the links I publish on Twitter and my blog posts. Involver has a nice RSS app that takes your blog feed and republishes it to the “News” tab on your Facebook page (I wish they would let you rename this to “Blog” but that might be a future enhancement). Previously I had been recommending the Simplaris Blogcast app which worked about 70% of the time in my experience. The Involver app seems very solid and stable in my early testing here and auto updates on a frequent basis.

What I like most about the Involver toolset is the ability to brand all of them with a banner making your Facebook page an extension of your blog or website. You can check out how this looks on all the Involver apps on my page (currently you have to use the same banner across all apps). But the real value of Involver is the ability for visitors to share your content easier with their Facebook friends and subscribe to your feed or follow you on Twitter.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg as Involver has another 7 tools including a coupon app I will be experimenting with in the next few weeks. So if you are looking to increase your visitor engagement on Facebook, give Involver a try. And fan me up, too, when you have a chance