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pdw @ zoomshare
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008
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Share This!
Not a fan of Digg? Wish you could give visitors
more options to share your thoughts without
registering with each community run news service?
Looking for a simple tool that let's you know what
your site visitors are recommending to their
friends? Well then I've got the tool for you,
ShareThis!
ShareThis is a web widget from Nextumi, Inc. that
allows one’s content to be instantly ‘shareable’
with users of various web services with the minimal
amount of work by the site owner. As a bonus the
ShareThis widget can provide tracking and reporting
information such that one can see what site content
is being shared.
For zoomshare users this means being able to let
users view, vote and/or share your work with other
potential visitors without the need to be a user of
each individual web service. So if someone thinks
your recent blog posting is Digg worthy, they can
submit your posting to Digg, right from within your
posting, without you having to provide all the
necessary Digg links.
Getting Started
The first step to using ShareThis is to register as a publisher. Once
registered the next step is to customize your
widget, choosing how visitors can share your
content and with whom.
Configuring ShareThis
For example, you can allow visitors to share your
content only by email. Or you can limit them to just
Facebook and MySpace. One can also choose the basic
color scheme for the widget in order to better
match one’s site template.
Once configured one copies the resulting widget
code and pastes it into a free form web page or
blog post as desired.
<script type="text/javascript"
src=http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8
&style=rotate&publisher=23441421-9d3a-4d4c-8746-a097a0f4b702
&headerbg=%235c5c5c&inactivebg=%237a7a7a&inactivefg=%23FFFFFF
&linkfg=%230000FF></script>
ShareThis code for pdw @
zoomshare
Which results in the following button which
visitors can click on to reveal the ShareThis Widget:
Nice right? Well it gets even better. As an assist
the good folks at Nextumi have also added some
basic reporting features. As such you get not only
get an idea of who’s visiting your site, but what
they are sharing with their friends and what
service their friends are using.
Reviewing Share This Traffic
Check it out and be sure to share this with your
friends, I think you’ll all enjoy this little tool
as much as I do.
Posted 13:36
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3 comments
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Cool! (and convenient)
Thanks for letting us know about this, pdw. The
reporting feature looks quite useful.
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how?
how did u get that video on ur site?
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video
John, you can find information about Zoomshare
Widgets and video here on pdw @ zoomshare as well
in the Zoomshare Forums.
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