GetSocial for WordPress.com bloggers
GetSocial is a social bookmarking tool made especially for WordPress.com bloggers. It automatically generates a (specially designed) social bookmarking toolbar for each one of your posts.
This is a 100% scriptless way to create social bookmarking links, which makes it a perfect solution for wordpress.com users who don’t want to futz about with code. It is also based on a 3 step wizard interface which is very friendly and easy to use. Oh, and it’s 100% free! If you are interested then here’s where to find it.
Related posts found in this blog:
WordPress.com: How to add social bookmark buttons
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Hmmm. Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering how people were doing that on WordPress dot com. Now I gotta think about whether I want that many icons on each post. I’m starting to go retrograde on some of this Web 2.0 stuff, feeling tapped out by it all.
Comment by Mark Stoneman — May 18, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
Hi Mark,
I know what you mean. I’ll give getsocial a whirl and check it out just as soon as I have some time. If it’s easy than what I’m doing now then I’ll use it and if not I won’t. I think it’s great that people are innovating and coming up with features we can use.
Comment by timethief — May 18, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
I’m so ignorant when it comes to this stuff, and hope you don’t mind if I ask 2 questions:
1. I’m assuming it ‘holds our hand’ through the process of registering our info to correspond with the bookmarklet buttons?
2. Can we list only those buttons which we use? I don’t use all those services and have no desire to register with all of them!
But thanks for sharing this. I’ve wanted it on my blog, but the manual on all entries seemed so tedious.
Comment by Steve Rebooted — May 19, 2008 @ 7:16 am
I don’t have the answers Steve I just spotted this yesterday and have not tried it out yet myself. All I can I suggest is that you ask the blogger who came up with this feature.
Comment by timethief — May 19, 2008 @ 7:24 am
Hey there
GetSocial will guide you through the entire process with a Wizard interface, it’s designed to be extremely easy to use, and there is tooltip assistance for everything!
About the different icons question: you want to have the links to social bookmarking services that your visitors use, as well as those you use yourself. In any case there are 4 different styles you can choose from (one of which is very small, so it won’t distract your readers).
It’s the most advances solution you will find all over WordPress.com, Get it [at the link provided in the post above.]
Note: the Social Bookmarking icons you currently see on this post are the ‘old’ ones and are *not* generated with GetSocial (which make much prettier icons)!
Comment by Hillel — May 19, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
@Hillel
Hello,
About your note. I like the social icons I have now well enough to stick with them. So if getsocial turns out to be more hassle and takes more time then I’ll stick with what I have. Thanks for dropping in and happy blogging.
Comment by timethief — May 19, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
Nice nice! I wonder if I have to paste the code on each of my post or is it automatically generated - well no other way to find out than to try! Thanks for sharing
Comment by andybigs — May 20, 2008 @ 12:11 am
Andy - just checked - looks like you have to plug it into each post. And tried to download it but it won’t run. Sigh.
Comment by mssinglemama — May 20, 2008 @ 10:50 am
@andybig
SIGH There is no automatic way to have these icons post to the free-hosted version of wordpress hosted on this multiuser blogging platform by wordpress.com
@mssinglemama
Please use the link in the blog post to contact the creator of the code and have him deal with your issue on his blog.
Comment by timethief — May 20, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Hım. I will try it. I am new here
Comment by zeynepankara — May 20, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
Good for you. If you would be so kind as to come back and tell me how you fared I would be appreciative.
Comment by timethief — May 20, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
Great resources and feedback, timethief. I’ll be back when I have more time to work with GetSocial! I’m new here, too!
Comment by Elyse — May 21, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
I’ve used GetSocial and it’s a breeze. I’m fairly new to wordpress, so that makes a difference! The wizard is excellent. The only glitch I encountered was my own on the final step: when I tried to paste it into the first blog, I forgot to switch to html view. Once I figured that out, no problems. It’s also great to be able to select from four options in terms of how the icons display.
Comment by Elyse — May 22, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
I’m gald to hear it’s working well for you.
Comment by timethief — May 22, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
GetSocial is simply a better mousetrap. Thanks so much! See it in action at http://mudge.essoenn.com .
Comment by mudge — May 22, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
I have been using bookmarkfly - I’ll have to give this a whirl! Thanks
Comment by melward — May 24, 2008 @ 11:53 am
I’ve never heard of bookmarkfly and now I’m off to check it out.
Comment by timethief — May 24, 2008 @ 12:11 pm