How To Add a Social Share Bar To Your Website
If you have surfed the Internet long enough, you have probably seen some of those websites that come with shiny footer bars that let their visitors submit their stories to top social media websites easily. Thanks to Web Informer’s social bar, you can get the same effect on your website, no matter what platform you are running your website on.
Web Informer’s toolbar is pretty easy to install on any website (HTML, WordPress …). It has some of the top social networking websites that you would want your visitors to submit your content to. The sleek look and feel is not too shabby either.
5 Cool Social Chat Tools For Your Site
The concept of chatting may not be new these days, but it’s still one of the best ways to connect with others and share information. If you are a webmaster for a popular website, there is no reason not to offer your readers the chance to chat with you once in a while. Besides, you can always provide you readers with the tools and let them go from there.
Social chatting is quite popular these days. That’s essentially chatting for Twitter and Facebook users. There are many tools that can add such functionality to your website. The nice thing about social chat websites is that they make it so easy to integrate chat rooms into any site. They are easy to set up too.
Those of you interested in adding chat functionality to your website should check these 5 social chat services out:
Tinychat: a light-weight and fun chat platform that lets your visitors connect with you using their social credentials. Supports video chats too.
Nurph: a cool social chat service that lets you start a chat room on Twitter. It allows you to add it to your website and share your chat room with the world. Takes just a couple of minutes to set up.
Donut Chat: a freemium service that can be used to set up chat rooms easily. If you are willing to pay a bit, you can host your chat rooms at a URL of your own choosing. Supports media sharing and third-party app integration too. (more…)
5 Killer Twitter Tools for Social Media Addicts
There are plenty of people who spend hours of their time on Twitter and Facebook on a daily basis. Add to that hundreds of useful tools that are available for these networks, and you may end up spending all your days on these sites. There are plenty of Twitter tools that can help you get the most out of this social network. Some can help you increase your followers while some others can keep track of your favorite topic. You are never going to be out of options.
If you are struggling to feed your Twitter addiction, here are 5 tools that could help:
Twalkin: a very cool service that lets you connect and start talking with your Twitter friends. If you want to have a private chat with your friends or announce something to a selection of your followers, Twalkin is must try.
Tweeterview: a great tool to interview people on Twitter with and watch other people’s interviews. Helps keep things organized while you interview other people.
Klout: an all powerful tool that dissects your profile and lets you know whether you are making a difference on Twitter. It can show you what areas you need to work on to take your Twitter to the next level.
Share Your Feeds With the World with Aggregator Theme
Unless you have been completely ignoring what’s going on in the social media, you have probably heard of AllTop and PopURL. These are great places that you can find new RSS feeds and top blogs about almost any topic. Trying to clone such services is not as easy as it looks, but you can always start your own site sharing feeds that matter to you the most. If you are a blogger or a niche portal owner, you can use such feature to provide more value to your visitors. Thanks to Aggregator theme for WordPress, you can start sharing your favorite feeds with the world without spending too much money.
Aggregator theme is a widget based theme. Users can add all kinds of feeds and as many of them as they prefer. While you don’t want to add too many feeds to this theme, it should work for most people. You can add video, blog, and photo feeds to your widgets. So you have the opportunity to build a content heavy Aggregator without doing too much.
Sociable for iPad: Your Mobile Social Media Center
Everybody who has tried iPad in the past is familiar with its lacking multi-tasking capability. If you want to be on Twitter and keep an eye on your Facebook updates on your iPad, you are going to have to keep opening and closing apps. That’s where Sociable for iPad comes into play. It’s a social media center for your iPad, giving users the opportunity to keep track of developments on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, and Flickr.
Sociable is really 6 apps fit into one. For starters, it enables users to read and update their Facebook status on iPad. Writing on walls and commenting on photos is possible too.
Sociable supports Twitter too. It lets iPad owners manage multiple Twitter accounts, post tweets, retweet, and even view tweets on a map. Support for Digg, Flickr, and Reddit is nice to have too.
Follow Your Favorite Blog with Favit
There is no question that Google Reader is the best feed reader around today. It offers a ton of features and makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs. That does not mean there are other solutions out there for RSS junkies. Favit is an exciting service that brings a more social aspect to your reading experience. The service connects you with your friends and lets you share connect with them and discover what their likes too.
Favit feels like a hybrid Twitter/RSS-reader. It not only gives you all the tools you need to follow your favorite blog, share your top stories, and get in touch with friends, it keeps track of your activities too. Your stream shows your followers what you have been doing, where you have left comment, and what items you have shared.
Manage Your RSS Feeds with Good Noows
Let’s face it. These days you can’t just rely on books to stay on the top of your industry. While you don’t want to let your RSS feeds make you less productive, you do want to keep up with them as much as you can. Plenty of people, including yours truly, use Google Reader to get the job done. It’s quite a powerful tool and has a ton of features for saving and sharing information with others. It can get a bit overwhelming if you have too many feeds in your account. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could customize the look and feel of Google Reader to go through the new content more effectively? Good Noows is an exciting news reader application that lets you create your own mini newspaper online, getting a better sense of the top stories in your industry.
Good Noows not only lets you keep track of your favorite website, but it also can accept your own RSS feeds too. So you can customize the information displayed on your front-page. You can even create new news sections (think of it as categories or folders) and add your favorite feeds to them. I also love the fact that you can customize Good Noows layout easily.
As you can see in the above screen-shot, you can add new sections as well as new sources of information to your account. You get plenty of layouts to choose from too. (more…)
Twitter Outage Frustrates Fans
It took only a small while before people realized there was something wrong with Twitter yesterday. Once the site starts loading slow, and you see the big whale image on your screen, you know something’s happening at Twitter. Apparently, the company had some server issues and has fixed most of those issues by now. A year ago, it would have taken people a while to get informed on any outages. These days, Twitter can’t get away with that. Not when it has millions of people who can’t stop tweeting.
Twitter’s status site was full of news about the state of the network (most of which were not good news).
Twitter has gotten much better these days when it comes to handling the load that it gets from all the tweeters. But it has ways to go to become perfect in that regard. Perhaps what’s more distressing is seeing so many people complain about what they can’t do when Twitter should be used as a tool and not a life-style.
Visualize Information with Spicynodes
Those of you who have been blogging for a while know the importance of using visuals to get your point across in your posts. Spicynodes is a cool visualizer that lets you demonstrate what you have in mind to your readers in a more dynamic fashion. All you have to do is break down your thoughts and put it all in nodes.
Spicynodes is free to sign up for and quite easy to work. Once you have developed an outline or have the concept you want to demonstrate to others broken down, you can use this service to present your ideas in a more dynamic fashion. You can add and customize nodes easily. You can change the style of your nodemap easily.
Intense Debate: Take Your Blog To The Next Level
The first step to get involved in social media is by starting your very own blog. Everybody has something to share with the world (not talking about your lunch adventures though). After all, you don’t want to participate on Twitter and Facebook without having a plan .When you have a blog, you can use your social profiles to drive traffic to your blog and solidify your community.
Every blogger would tell you that getting people to comment on posts can be challenging. Top bloggers have mastered this art. Those bloggers who do not get a lot of traffic on their website, will have a tough time getting people to participate. The best way to do it is by making it easy for visitors to comment on each post, add their own content, and rate what others have to say. That’s where Intense Debate comes in. It’s a powerful comment management system by the people behind WordPress that turns your comment system into a powerful community tool for your readers.
Intense Debate is very easy to install and adds a whole other dimension to your blog. It lets your visitors to comment on your blog by using their Twitter, Facebook, or Intense Debate account. Of course, they can do it the good old way (with a name and URL). Since Intense Debate is compatible with Akismet, you can deal with spam comments more effectively as well.
