Have you ever used the Share This feature on someone's blog you enjoyed?
I keep seeing the "share this" plugin recommended on all of the "Best Plugins for Wordpress" lists and I realized that I've never once used it to recommend a blog post that I've enjoyed.
I'll email it to a friend, manually.
Copy the URL over to Bit.Ly to post to Twitter.
Or Grab the URL and send it via IM to a friend.
But, I've never once used the plugin.
It got me wondering if I'm unusual that way, or if the plugin is wasted energy on my blogs.
So..
1. Have you ever used it to recommend a blog post?
2. How often?
Thanks for indulging my curiousity. :)
Nicole
Re> ShareThis plugin for WordPress
Hi Nicole,
Just a quick note here. Although I think the Share This plugin is nicely designed and all, including not only a wide variety of alternatives for the social-bookmarking fan, as well as emailing functionality, I still think it suffers from a big problem.
The problem is that one doesn't visually SEE the icons of the social sites until one has clicked on the Share This button. So even though it has the capability of embracing many social sites, I believe it suffers from this "one-step-too-much" problem.
Personally, I like Sociable as a Wordpress plugin, and I use it on EbookBrothers.com. I think it does the job better than ShareThis, although I do miss the email functionality.
Take care!
Bo
EbookBrothers.com
Example using Sociable Wordpress plugin on EbookBrothers.com