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The MINT CMS is FREE software, its completely open source, there are no annual licences to pay, no restriction of use you simply pay for the hosting environment and the professional services required in delivering your social community, the application is delivered as Software As A Service (SaaS) so there is also no ridiculously complicated or expensive hardware systems or software for you to install and implement. It is easy; simply order your community from us and it is ready to customise within 24 hours!
Implementing a social community does not have to be costly, our rates for our base packages include annual hosting and installation of your community software on the H2O SaaS platform and equate to:
MINT can be quickly and easily updated by any person with basic computer skills, there is no requirement for HTML coding to be able to quickly add and manage content and administer users. MINT is an open source fork (This means derivative) of the “JOOMLA” CMS packaged with over 40 customised H2O applications and our industry leading H2O community management software, the MINT CMS has been specifically designed to rapidly deliver custom branded social communities for publishers, brands, business groups, media companies – in fact anyone that wants to create a an “Online community” for their users.
We provide a number of pre-packaged solutions of the MINT content management system solution, all of which can be expanded quickly and easily to include more functionality as required. These include solutions for the events industry, education sector, entertainments industry, business groups, publishing and real estate sectors. Our standard packages include multi user websites, basic social communities and advanced social communities with messaging capabilities. Our SODA content management system provides a step up from the MINT CMS and includes enhanced functionality including location based services, SMS and MMS sending capability. The HTML Free Fields Data Wizard allows our professional services team to quickly construct customised applications that can SNAP into to the CMS platforms, ensuring that your social media platform is delivered with all of the required features and functions. Take a quick look at some featured customer applications.
The following features are provided as standard within the MINT content management system, MINT is Open Source software released under a GPL Licence. The standard implementation comes ready and open for customisation, you can ask us to customise it for you, or you can find an approved channel service partner or customise it yourself. Here are the available features
Built with active web publishers in mind the MINT CMS provides different levels of workflow and approval based on user’s profiles. Users can generate content, approve, reject, publish and delete based on their individual user profiles.
Coding in HTML is no fun especially if you don’t know how to! With the MINT CMS “What You See Is What You Get” content editor you simply need basic word processing skills in order to generate up to date and relevant content pages. Applications such as community management and moderation are all driven using graphical applications that a non technical user can drive!
Ensuring that your website pages are all perfectly optimised for popular search engines is a long and laborious task, that’s why we have automated it with our SEO algorithm. Simply create a content page and our SEO Algorithm will automatically generate Meta Tags and structure the page code for optimal search engine placement. Check our SEO services page for further information.
Content is arranged based on the same concept as a filing cabinet, content items are quickly and easily managed, stored and archived in the same way. If you understand how to use a filing cabinet you can use the MINT content management system.
CSS page templates (Customised Style Sheets) allow MINT users to arrange content items, applications and page layouts based on Module positions. Module positions can be quickly edited, added to and changed based on your standard template.
The MINT CMS photo gallery lets you upload photographs and images. The photo gallery integrates into other mint applications to allow commenting, rating and bookmarking of user photographs and user uploads. Approvals can be set to automatically approve and publish your photographs or to require approval by site administrators prior to publishing as required.
Make money or drive traffic to other sites with our integrated banner advertising platform. Report on impressions, click through rates and manage display scheduling with our integrated banner management application.
Your users can subscribe to your e-newsletter using the email subscription system, Newsletter manager allows you to manage your email subscribers and send HTML email mail outs to your news subscribers.
The following applications are quickly integrated into the MINT CMS platform which acts as the data conduit for applications to exchange information between one another.
Community based email allows users to communicate through a private messaging system integrated into your site. Emails can use HTML notifications, Send Mail and private messaging based on your community requirements.
The H2O community manager provides everything you need to manage, administrate and communicate with your community members. The community manager application integrates with other key applications so you can see exactly who is contributing to your forums, sending messages and leaving comments.
Forums are provided pre-integrated into the community manager; forums allow users to post messages, discussion points and thoughts to a community message board generating content for your website whilst improving your search engine rankings.
Users can add content items, classifieds and other items on your site to their favourite items. Users can also add your pages to leading third party bookmarking applications at the touch of a button.
H2O Classifieds allow your community users to post advertisements to your site, integrated with the private messaging system and send mail functions it notifies users of new responses. Advertisements can be set to auto approve or to require administrator approval prior to publishing.
Blogs allow administrative or community users to write their own blogs on their site creating user generated content that is indexed by search engines depositing direct content value into your community.
Events listings can categorised into types of events and the listing can be customised to show events by day, week or month as required. The events listing are provided pre-integrated into the community manager to allow community users to post events for approval. Users can also register event attendance if required.
Adding television to your site is quick and easy and is a great way to deliver exciting video content, deliver your corporate video message, it also generates additional revenue with advertising and uploads and enable your visitors to upload their own video content if required. The H2O Video platform is a customisable application that integrates into the Community Manager allowing administrators to manage video publishing on the site. With H2O IP TV you can operate both user generated content sites and administrator managed video content delivery with the click of a button. Based on the H2O Free Fields Data Wizard the video capability allows you to customise how videos are shown on your site.
Directory Listings are a great way for publishers to generate advertising revenue, with our customisable listing component based on the H2O Free Fields Data Wizard your listings engine can be rapidly and easily customised for your exact requirements. The listings application is provided with an optional contact us now button allowing site viewers to send direct email messages to companies listed carrying your brand advertising or message.
The H2O Property application allows a real estate company to provide multi agent listings directly on their website. Agents can list and upload property details, whilst consumers that show interest in a property are automatically captured into a customer relationship management system for immediate follow up. With HNM property installed a real estate company can reduce their costs by automating the Multi Listing process whilst at the same time ensuring there are always leads to convert to sales.
Based on the H2O Free Fields Data Wizard the booking engine can be quickly customised using professional services for your exact requirement. From Spa’s to hotels or restaurants the booking engine is the ideal application for anyone needing customers to make a booking from their social community.
Transacting online orders and payments is instantaneous using the H2O Store, the H2O store integrates with the H2O community manager to ensure that customer details and transaction records are appended to user profiles. List your products by category, vendor and price for easy browsing. With pre-built integration into popular payment systems such as 2CO, Paypal and others your online store is a sure fire way to generate additional revenue streams from your community application.
Building the customised applications required to differentiate your social community platform requires a competent development partner with experience. Our development professional services capability allows us to develop customised applications that integrate into our community manager and CMS platforms to provide a seamless end user experience.
The main goal of using this platform is to provide you the ability to easily manage every aspect of your online business, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or portfolio. It is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization operate effectively. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage an ever growing website site using our web application.
The MINT CMS platform is at the heart of every website build H2O deliver, allowing our customers to update content quickly without the requirement to pay a consultancy company.
