Have You Noticed Our ‘Share This’ Button?

Have you ever wondered how to make sure that you provide the opportunity for people to share the great articles on your blog to their social networking sites?

You might recall I wrote about one tool recently that you can add to the side bar of your blog or to your web pages that allows people to save PDF’s of your articles and even email them to others.

Another plugin that you might want to consider for your blog or website that is becoming increasingly popular is ShareThis.

You’ll usually see the ShareThis logo at the bottom of an article.

When you click on it you will see you have several options:

1. You can post the article and share it to your favourite social networking sites such as Digg and Ma.gnolia
2. You can make sure that your friends at your social networks such as Facebook and Twitter know about the post or article you have read
3. And you can even email yourself or others a copy - yes I know you may think it impossible, but there are many people who are not connected on social networks (at a meeting I was at this week less than 5% of the business leaders attending were members of a social network).

Now I have to admit I don’t have ShareThis on my blog at the moment - it’s in my list of updates I want to make. Though at the moment, as many visitors to my blog are not tech savvy and social media evangelists, I’ve been hesitant as they may not know what it means.

I do however have specific plugin’s for people to share my articles by email, by Twitter and printing them out and I do have social bookmark sharing.

Of course it’s not just making sure the readers of your blog understand what the ShareThis logo means - it does rely on us as content creators writing content that people want to pass on to their friends or keep as reference material.

So why not consider adding ShareThis to your blog or website. And of course I hope you will consider sharing our articles with your friends too - and hopefully they too will want to join us this year at PodCamp Ireland.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention ShareThis is available to use across a host of blog platforms including WordPress.org and TypePad.com