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Best Social Media Plugins and Widgets for your Wordpress website | Courtney Engle
Staking your own claim online is vital. Telling your friends, clients, and customers about your address is great, but what else can you do to turn up in search engines and get new traffic to your website? Making your website friendly for visitors to share using their social media channels is great. Here’s my list of plugins and widgets for your WordPress site.
Essential WordPress plugins for social media:
- Sexy Bookmarks – Adds customizable buttons to the end of your posts (including RSS feed) to enable sharing on nearly all sites.
- Sharebar – Floats left of posts and/or pages to enable sharing to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, and more
- Facebook Like - Inserts the “Like” button to the beginning of posts and/or pages to enable Liking a post on Facebook
- Disqus - Allows commenters on your site to post using their Facebook, Twitter, and more. Also allows links to their comments to be posted to their social media accounts.
- WP Greet Box - Welcomes visitors based upon which social media website led them to your site and asks them to subscribe to your RSS
- Wibiya – Adds a footer to your website to enable Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, Flickr albums, Youtube Channels, and much more
Social media widgets to add to your site:
- Facebook badge - connect others to your personal profile in Facebook
- Facebook Fan Page Widget – adds “likers” to your fan page from within your website
- Twitter Profile – show your recent tweets
- Twitter Faves – show off the tweets you favorite
- Twitter Lists – show off tweets by those you have in a list in your Twitter account
- Retaggr’s “Click To Add Me” button – shows ALL your social media profiles and allows others to connect with you on them
- Friendfeed activity widget – even if the site is a ghost-town, showing a preview of all your online activity in one box is simple
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Facebook Groups Overhauled to function as Lists | Courtney Engle
Facebook overhauled Groups to function in place of Lists. Only 5% of users were using the Lists feature to organize their connections. To remedy this solution, Facebook has reworked the Groups feature. By logging in to Groups, you can add anyone you want to the group you create. A quick rundown of the new features:
- Group Chat
- Group Notices
- Shared docs
- Limited icons reflecting your group
This has strong potential to quickly become spammy, but also can be great when handled appropriately. I like the idea of using this with social friends primarily, and to create networking opportunities. Avoid adding others to groups just as a way to socialize with them. The next area of mind-numbing but needed organization is to remove ourselves from groups that we’ve been added to unnecessarily. Within moments of the new groups, I noticed several of my connections being added to public lists in a rather spammy fashion. See: The Ugly Side Of The New Facebook Groups
- Opt-out
- Can’t hide group chat
- Confusion vs pages and lists
Here’s step-by-step how to create a group: “How To: Create your new group on Facebook”
I quickly did a demo of how to create a group. I can see this becoming useful for my weekly get-togethers with friends:
Other Social Media news:
- Facebook Overhauls Groups, A Social Solution To Create “A Pristine Graph” (techcrunch.com)
- New Facebook Groups Designed to Change the Way You Use Facebook (mashable.com)
- Facebook Announces More Control Over Your Profile & Friend Groups [News] (makeuseof.com)
- Facebook Introduces Private Groups, Allows Export Of Personal Data (searchengineland.com)
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
If you are a presenter you MUST watch this company: Prezi (new features just released) — Scobleizer
I love @prezi for presentations, but also for taking a slideshow to a video format.
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Book Review: @UnMarketing
I just finished reading Scott Stratton‘s book Unmarketing. Scott has a refreshing perspective and shares marketing advice from the perspective of both the business owner and the consumer. In the end the consumer’s opinion is the driving factor in business. Scott shares how he is gone into various stories and been on the consumer side of marketing efforts. Whether it’s in the how businesses treat the customer or in an e-mail or direct mail pieces that Scott has received, he shares how others could have done better and will work to dealing with situations.
Unmarketing will make you laugh and challenge you to see things in a new way, including what it means to truly engage with others. Scott will share with you how Unmarketing is really about rethinking how interact with clients customers and the general public in a day-to-day basis. Not only do we need to keep up with new tools such as Twitter and Facebook, but we also need to consider how we treat others whether a person or online. Have you really thought about how you come across to others?
What stands out or is different about Scott’s book than any others is that Scott can ask the reader he doesn’t stop at just informing the reader but you’re left with a real impression as to how Scott uses these tools which gives you an interesting perspective on how you can use these tools in your business building as well.
Below is a clip of Scott speaking at a conference I attended:
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Formulists organizes your Twitter Lists | Courtney Engle
Organizing those you follow in Twitter into lists makes it far easier to view what matters most to you. But taking the time to organize lists is a tedious process when you first begin. Formulists makes this process a bit easier and can highlight people you may want to follow. Formulists automatically finds, filters, and lists Twitter users that you may want to connect with. By adding these lists to your Twitter profile and Twitter management software you will quickly focus your work and networking.
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