Social tools to grow your business network; part 1 Oxwall

There are a lot of employers that are looking for competent human resources or employees to hire, marketers looking for a larger market to sell there goods or connect with prospective buyers, entrepreneurs that want to showcase what they've got to offer, and individuals that want to stay connected with friends, colleagues and associates via chat, then I'm recommending Oxwall for you from the little experience I have from the platform.

Oxwall is an open source social networking project that has a lot of features which includes, but not limited to the followings:

• Users can create personal blogs and sites for there businesses.
• User can connect with his or her Facebook account without filling new profile details and add up more details if you wish.
• It allows you import contacts from many other social networking platforms like Google+, Facebook e.t.c and also help you find your existing friends in the website, making things easier.
• since it is an open source you can add up other functionalities to your account web page by using plugins.
• For smart phones it has both android and iOS apps with beautiful user interface, for connecting with friends, colleagues, business associates etc
  
• Your privacy is guaranteed in Oxwall because you can setup and control what friends and the public see on your profile, feed or blog.
• As an open source, you can add up image slideshow to create beautiful contents in your website, using the feature called drag'n'drop interface.
• swift and protected surfing and caching and great performance since Oxwall is cloudflare integrated.
• It has a convenient and swift way of sharing photos with friends and community with ratings, tags and comments. You can instantly see what's happening from the feed, import and share videos from YouTube, vimeo and other video streaming platforms with friends and community with comments, tags and rating.
• Users can create forum, groups where they can engage in private discussions.
• Allows user to share piece of content on other social network platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, e.t.c easily.
  Users can also create events, online or offline to engage with other users.
  Oxwall also has a real time chat with friends like any other social network platform.

WHAT OXWALL CAN REALLY DO FOR YOU

Business matching

With the business matching idea I was able to find an exclusive tutor that helped put me through my SolidWorks CAD design project.
Oxwall can match or connect you with your prospective clients, employees, customers e.t.c, using its two-sided market place model ideas which I'll list and explain below.

• JOB OFFER SERVICE: here a user creates a profile as an employer, specifying the type of job and requirements and other users with profiles of employees close to the specifications of the job are being matched up for the first user (employer) to asses, probably leading to an interview and employment.
• TUTORS AND STUDENTS: Oxwall can help teachers hook up with prospective students through it two-sided market model by following the same approach as explained in the job offer service then Oxwall will match them up.
• ADOPTION SERVICES: Future parents are matched or linked up with adoption services.
  There are many other categories which include:
• COACHES AND ATHLETES.
• DOCTORS AND PATIENTS.
• DATING SERVICES.
• BUSINESS CONSULTATIONS.
• FITNESS MATCHING.
• HOUSEKEEPING SERVICE.
• FASHION CONSULTATIONS.
• FIND BUSINESS PARTNER.
• AU PAIR SERVICES.
• PET LOVERS MATCHING.
• FIND FELLOW TRAVELERS.

THE OXWALL USER BLOG

This allows users to create there on personal blogs on the Oxwall platform.
These blogs can be hosted by Qxwall, or the user can choose another host other than Oxwall. The Oxwall hosting is based on the Amazon cloud infrastructure, considering the fact that Amazon is the leader in cloud hosting worldwide, it will be wise to rely on Oxwall for hosting, and to get your websites up to a community size, the first month is free of charge after that the plans are as follows:
12 months plan for $120, $10 per month.
6 months plan for $90, $15 per month.
3 months plan for $60, $20 per month.
1 month plan for $30.

Parameters and comfortable usage numbers:

• Total users in database: up to 100,000
• Seamless domain name purchase
• Free Basic SSL
• SSD technology and consistent I/O performance
• Balance of compute, memory, and network resources
• Processors in use: 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2676 v3 (Haswell).

Oxwall will offer you a dedicated custom cloud starting from $100 per month when your blog or site grows and you want to carry on with Oxwall.

OTHER RECOMMENDED HOSTING PLATFORMS FOR OXWALL
Oxwall warns it user not use buy shared plans noting that this causes a lot of problems like crashing of your site for no obvious reason due to the fact that a lot of sites are sitting on one physical server. So if anything happens to any of them, like DDOS attack, traffic spike etc your site will be affected too. On this note, Oxwall warns it users not to use Goddady hosting.
Here are a couple of other Oxwall recommended hosting platforms, though I have not made use of any of them yet, but according to publication by Oxwall, they are nice:

• FastComet: This is recommended by oxwall as a hosting platform. To go to fastcomet click here
• BlueHost: This is also recommended by Oxwall and has a special discount for Oxwall user for as low as $3.49 per month. To go to BlueHost click here
• Arvixe: this offers 24/7 Oxwall support and a discount too. To go to Arvixe click here
  Site5: This allows you to choose your server location and also offer a free trial and a 45 day money back guarantee. To go to Site5 click here

So with the Oxwall platform I believe you can kill not only two birds with one stone but a lot of birds with the multiple and flexible features it has.

• Project repository https://github.com/oxwall/oxwall

• Github profile https://github.com/augustinefrankliniyke