Share Buttons and Bars

Are you using share buttons and or bars on your websites? They are a key enabler to make your site and it’s content viral, i.e. allowing people who view it to easily share it with others. While you can get all fancy and create your own buttons, bars, or code, you really don’t need to at all. Many companies offer the buttons and bars for free and make it easy for you to use them on your own site so all you have to do is cut and paste the code.

Buttons are little icons that can take people to your social media pages, or to a a tool that allows the viewer to share the page to their friends on their own social media sites. A share bar is a bar that goes on the side or bottom of your webpage. It usually has several buttons all together. A nice example can be found at The Arc of Baltimore’s website. You should put these tools on each of your pages. The nice part about these tools is that they can give you an analysis of which pages are being shared.

Here is a list of some that you might want to check out.

Sharing Tools

• AddtoAny
• AddThis
• Facebook Like Button
• Meebo
• ShareThis
• Twitter Tweet Button
• Wibiya

Let us know if you have more and we’ll add them to this list.

from Volusion

Video Fridays #17

I thought I’d mix up the Video Friday posts by posting one Saturday…this one is not about the content of the video but how it is being used to support the agency that posted it.

The Sprout Touring Film Festival, which will be at The Arc of the US Convention in Pittsburgh, has a YouTube Channel with lots of videos. If you notice in the left column they have a donate now button here. Great placement for it! If you look at their videos individually, you’ll also see a donation button. What are you doing with your donation buttons?

Here’s one of their videos.