Blog: Social Media Power
Twit­ter: @socialmediapwr
LinkedIn: /in/deltinahay

As devel­op­ers, we spe­cial­ize in social media and Web 2.0 opti­mized Web­sites, but as pub­lish­ers we also do qual­ity con­tent gen­er­a­tion. Our ser­vices include:

• Stream­lin­ing Your Pres­ence in the Social Web: With a Plumb Social account you get an entire Social Web pres­ence includ­ing a cus­tom, social media, Web 2.0, and search engine opti­mized Word­Press Web­site, a blog, a YouTube video gallery, a Flickr image gallery, accounts with sev­eral vital social net­work­ing sites, and much more. But more impor­tantly, all of your accounts, as well as your Web­site and blog, are inte­grated to work together, sav­ing you much time and money.
• Online Con­tent Gen­er­a­tion: Since the Social Media Power team is made up of pro­fes­sional Web devel­op­ers, graphic design­ers, writ­ers, edi­tors, and proof­read­ers, they can not only offer means for cre­at­ing a truly opti­mized Web pres­ence, but also means for gen­er­at­ing pro­fes­sion­ally writ­ten online content.
• Social Media News­rooms: We build Social Media News­rooms (SMNRs) using a tem­plate designed in Word­Press. We use Word­Press because it is already equipped with the tools and plu­g­ins nec­es­sary to build an effec­tive SMNR — like built-in RSS feed capa­bil­i­ties, side­bar wid­gets, Tech­no­rati tag­ging, auto­matic ping­ing to social book­mark­ing indexes, and so forth.

On Your Mark (Nes­tle Toll House, Amer­i­can Greet­ings, OshKosh, Carter’s, Real Sim­ple, more…), Acco­lades PR, Com­e­dyS­portz, Dig­i­tal Growth Strate­gies, more here.…

Deltina Hay is the prin­ci­pal owner of the inde­pen­dent press, Dal­ton Pub­lish­ing, and the social media con­sult­ing and Web 2.0 devel­op­ment firm Social Media Power. She is also the founder of the social media Web­site ser­vice PlumbSocial.com.

Ms. Hay is noted for her dynamic pre­sen­ta­tions that focus on hands-on, do-it-yourself tools to truly make the Web a place where all voices can be heard and access should not be lim­ited to those with large cap­i­tal. She has pre­sented on social media and Web 2.0 at such events as IBPA’s Pub­lish­ing Uni­ver­sity, the Publisher’s Asso­ci­a­tion of the South’s Win­ter Con­clave, the Writ­ers’ League of Texas’ Edi­tors and Agents Con­fer­ence, the Pacific North­west Bookseller’s Asso­ci­a­tion, AuthorSmart.com, AuthorsAccess.com, and will present on three pan­els for IBPA’s Pub­lish­ing Uni­ver­sity pre­ced­ing Book Expo Amer­ica in May 2009.

She is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor of arti­cles on social media and Web 2.0 to IBPA’s Inde­pen­dent, The SPAN Con­nec­tion, SiteProNews, and many online news sites. Her sec­ond book, A Sur­vival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Opti­miza­tion: Strate­gies, Tac­tics, and Tools for Suc­ceed­ing in the Social Web, will be avail­able in March 2009, avail­able now for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Ms. Hay has the advan­tage over many social media con­sul­tants in that she is both a devel­oper and a user of social media. As a pub­lisher and small busi­ness owner, she knows first­hand how to apply the tools of social media to the indus­try, and as a devel­oper, knows how to build them. While she has taught at the uni­ver­sity level, her deep work­ing knowl­edge of social media ideas as well as how to apply them in the real world make her pre­sen­ta­tions and writ­ings some of the most excit­ing and acces­si­ble in the indus­try today.