Comments on: Making content sharing easier http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/ Sat, 17 May 2008 04:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MKTG2032 Links Post 17: Analytics, metrics, RSS and other notes « Mktg2032’s Weblog http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-73088 MKTG2032 Links Post 17: Analytics, metrics, RSS and other notes « Mktg2032’s Weblog Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:09 +0000 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-73088 [...] Making content sharing easier : NevilleHobson.com Advice for how to make the content share that much easier, if the objective of the blog is to build traffic and gain readerships [...] [...] Making content sharing easier : NevilleHobson.com Advice for how to make the content share that much easier, if the objective of the blog is to build traffic and gain readerships [...]

]]> By: neville http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72798 neville Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:23:32 +0000 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72798 That's the real point, Laura, isn't it - making it easy for visitors to do what they want to/with your content. That’s the real point, Laura, isn’t it - making it easy for visitors to do what they want to/with your content.

]]> By: Laura Thomas http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72797 Laura Thomas Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:03:26 +0000 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72797 Just catching up on my feeds and saw this post Neville. I thought it might be interesting to share how we've had some similar conversations here within Dell. We had added some bookmark buttons to our <a href="http://www.dell.com/aboutdell" rel="nofollow">About Dell</a> section of the site, but they were a bit unwieldy and limited in number. How to offer more options (which I do think people want) without too much bling? We looked at some services like Add This and Share This, but ran into conflicts with the proprietary application that runs Dell.com. So, we built something in-house that I think looks somewhat similar to the solution you have chosen. It's now live on our <a href="http://www.dell.com/aboutdell" rel="nofollow">main About Dell pages</a> and will soon be populated across more & more areas of Dell.com. As to why I think these are useful and people still want them? I use my on frame of reference. Not until recently did I actually add buttons in my FF browser for del.icio.us and TwitThis, although I'd added StumbleUpon to my IE many moons ago. And, I think I'm slightly ahead of most of the online crowd. I often found myself browsing in one when I wanted to link to a service I didn't have loaded in that one, and it was rather inconvenient to switch back & forth. How much easier to have the buttons right there on the page I'm looking at! Hopefully, we've made it easier for our Dell.com visitors to share now, too. Just catching up on my feeds and saw this post Neville. I thought it might be interesting to share how we’ve had some similar conversations here within Dell. We had added some bookmark buttons to our About Dell section of the site, but they were a bit unwieldy and limited in number. How to offer more options (which I do think people want) without too much bling? We looked at some services like Add This and Share This, but ran into conflicts with the proprietary application that runs Dell.com. So, we built something in-house that I think looks somewhat similar to the solution you have chosen. It’s now live on our main About Dell pages and will soon be populated across more & more areas of Dell.com.

As to why I think these are useful and people still want them? I use my on frame of reference. Not until recently did I actually add buttons in my FF browser for del.icio.us and TwitThis, although I’d added StumbleUpon to my IE many moons ago. And, I think I’m slightly ahead of most of the online crowd. I often found myself browsing in one when I wanted to link to a service I didn’t have loaded in that one, and it was rather inconvenient to switch back & forth.

How much easier to have the buttons right there on the page I’m looking at! Hopefully, we’ve made it easier for our Dell.com visitors to share now, too.

]]> By: links for 2008-03-24 « media mindshare: news media, technology & public relations http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72786 links for 2008-03-24 « media mindshare: news media, technology & public relations Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:08:26 +0000 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72786 [...] Making content sharing easier > Neville Hobson Nice summary on the options, from the standard Feedflare to nifty plugins. [...] [...] Making content sharing easier > Neville Hobson Nice summary on the options, from the standard Feedflare to nifty plugins. [...]

]]> By: neville http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72782 neville Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:37:33 +0000 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72782 Exactly, Armin: remove the clutter. I see it as a convenience to visitors on the one hand, and as providing some useful information to the blogger on the other hand. Share This gives you some useful stats information on, eg, which social web services people use to share your content. Exactly, Armin: remove the clutter.

I see it as a convenience to visitors on the one hand, and as providing some useful information to the blogger on the other hand. Share This gives you some useful stats information on, eg, which social web services people use to share your content.

]]> By: Armin http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72780 Armin Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:48:35 +0000 http://www.nevillehobson.com/2008/03/21/making-content-sharing-easier/#comment-72780 I still don't really get the point of these things and all the bling you find in a lot of blogs. Funnily enough you state the reason for this yourself: I suspect that 98% of those who use any of these services have a bookmarklet, Firefox plugin or similar tool installed in their browser anyway. Meaning they have no need for any of these links and most likely won't use them anyway as they will use the tools they are familiar with. So what are these tools really good for? Apart from free advertising and possibly Google juice for all these "social" services. Funnily enough I've noticed that I'm getting more "stumbles" (or whatever they call them) on pages where I haven't got a link to StumbleUpon than to the (few) pages where I've got them. Time to remove the clutter? I still don’t really get the point of these things and all the bling you find in a lot of blogs. Funnily enough you state the reason for this yourself:

I suspect that 98% of those who use any of these services have a bookmarklet, Firefox plugin or similar tool installed in their browser anyway. Meaning they have no need for any of these links and most likely won’t use them anyway as they will use the tools they are familiar with.

So what are these tools really good for? Apart from free advertising and possibly Google juice for all these “social” services.

Funnily enough I’ve noticed that I’m getting more “stumbles” (or whatever they call them) on pages where I haven’t got a link to StumbleUpon than to the (few) pages where I’ve got them.

Time to remove the clutter?

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