Comments on: 3 Ways To Consolidate Your Social Media Icons

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:48:53 +0000

Keep up the good work, and post more articles like the one you have posted above.

By: Snuggies

Snuggies — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:53:45 +0000

There are two big reasons I prefer to use services like ShareThis.

First, you don’t have to worry about updating your social networking groups. ShareThis pretty much handles that for you. If a great new social networking option pops up, you can be ShareThis will add it to the group.

Second, you don’t have to worry about tracking. ShareThis handles this for you. You have one site you can go to and get a complete report on the total number of submissions your site has received. Nice.

I haven’t tried to Add to Any or AddThis, but I’ll have to check them out.

By: Denis Baldwin

Denis Baldwin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:10:18 +0000

I used AddThis currently. It’s a mess. Sure, it works.. but not many people even bother with it. I’d say on all the blogs I manage, I’ve had maybe 5 clicks in the last year using it. I wish I could make blogger work with a good social networking icon set, images only, that dealt with the main 10 or so sites.

Honestly, if I had something simply like this, I’d be beyond thrilled: http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/socialmediaiconsrow.png

By: strain.icbm

strain.icbm — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:56:40 +0000

You might also consider looking at referralZen (located at http://www.smbZen.com) which, like these other great tools, enables sharing through a large variety of social media services including email. However, with referralZen you can completely customize the form (and emails) and it provides full statistics regarding your shared content. And yes, it’s free.

http://www.smbZen.com

By: website information

website information — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:12:06 +0000

Has anyone tried any usability tests about these widgets or social media buttons? How it will affect the website’s look, interactivity and usefulness of the widget? If someone has, please provide me a link.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:28:38 +0000

I’m using ShareThis and it has no load time which is great!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:28:25 +0000

I’m using ShareThis and it has no load time wich is great!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:27:43 +0000

I’m using ShareThis and it has no load time with is great!

By: Courtney Engle

Courtney Engle — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:58:17 +0000

I love Retaggr’s (http://retaggr.com) button (http://ClickToAdd.Me/CourtneyEngle). It makes connecting on other social media sites much easier to share. Retaggr has a few other fun services for email footers, etc. as well.

By: bilety lotnicze

bilety lotnicze — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:45:00 +0000

Very interesting article. Thanks

By: kiran

kiran — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:21:55 +0000

We use Share this…It is great with lot of social icons.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:14:36 +0000

@Rarst – Isn’t that the truth!

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:49:34 +0000

I use AddThis, it’s useless. In ~5 months I had something like 4-5 clicks on it.

Bloggers like buttons, doesn’t mean readers like them.