A leading provider of social media technology, Wyndstorm Corporation, introduces its interactive social media platform with advanced security features that support family values and faith-based Website programming at the largest marketplace dedicated to Christian media professionals, NRB 2008 Convention & Exposition, March 8 to 11. Social networking, interactive gaming, and 3-D virtual environments, are included by Wyndstorm’s fully-featured digital media offering, all of which can be customized to support a wide range of religious programming and content needs.

    Faith-based organizations, with exponential growth in social networks in all consumer interest groups (over 230 million users as of 2007, Forrester Research), are actively looking for cost-effective ways to expand their channels to reach, recruit, and retain their congregations and communities. The days of traditional marketing methods are over. It is essential to create an online experience, to compete and grow strong communities, where members can share information, connect, and have access to content.

    Wyndstorm will demonstrate, at this conference, how technology and online marketing dramatically improve results for organizations wanting to build lasting relationships between community members; create strong support communities; and engaged constituents in the market. The Wyndstorm turn-key solution provides community and faith-based organizations with pre-built, proven applications, including social networking, interactive games, profiles, podcasts, 3-D virtual environments, and audio-visual chat. Over 50 user-friendly, fun, and safe features are available for Web-based outreach in religious sectors.

    Marian Sabety, President and CEO of Wyndstorm said: "Having built both start-up and large-scale social platforms, Wyndstorm understands the special needs of the religious and faith-based community. Our end-to-end solution combines the robust power needed to grow a high-traffic site with the ease of use features needed to attract diverse users, whether they be teenagers or senior citizens". "Wyndstorm’s social media environment is tailor-made, affordable, easy-to-manage, and safe. Site security is a priority. Wyndstorm uses effective techniques for keeping members of social networks safe, including 'fencing' to keep out site-crashers, and 'positive identification' to ensure predators are unable to pose as someone they are not. We can even track keywords in order to moderate the tone of site communications," said Sabety.