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8 Basic Yet Necessary Tools or Plugins for your Site

Idaconcpts

First, let’s see how effective a good widget or app can be. If you’re looking for a way to have added functionality or control over your site, consider these: PayPal Donations Button : Mighty Widgets created this great little tool to make including a donation option on your website or social media page easy. Tools in Action.

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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MashedIn Social Media Friend Finder Application Launched

Bill Hartzer

MashedIn provides a widget that you can add to a web site or blog where your users can authenticate with either Facebook , Twitter , or LinkedIn to reveal common connections to the widget owner. Related posts: Luxury Car Brands Not Taking Full Advantage of Social Media Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index.

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Twitter: @Anywhere announcement

Laurel Papworth

When we’re ready to launch, initial participating sites will include Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, For example click on Get Widget below. Still the widgets do this already don’t they? and YouTube. Or something more?

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Writing Around the Web – Social Media SEO, Google Analytics, and Social Proof

Kikolani

Sure you get great functionality with the base system, but you can enhance it using plugins, and the comment system – the heart of the community of your blog – is not excluded from enhancement. Digg Marketing Guide – This post will help you learn to use Digg for sharing your awesome content with a larger audience.

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Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Bill Hartzer

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page's meta tags. When I refer to meta tags, I am specifically talking about the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag. Subscribe to the comments for this post?