Comments on: Tell A Friend – Let Your Readers Promote Your Posts

By: Bob Potter

Bob Potter — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:57:30 +0000

Hey Darren – Thanks for telling us about this widget. It is great to hear about the ones that stand out that are not just beneficial for “me” but also good for my readers. I share articles all the time through Google Reader and Delicious, but this makes it easier for the less tech savy.

Another reader commented that this video is a copy cat of Common Craft’s format – something CC just wrote about on their blog and how it is affecting their brand. http://cli.gs/L7MYR3

By: kiran

kiran — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:29:47 +0000

Yes its good widget….But need to add few more social media websites to it.

Thanks
http://www.dotndot.com

By: saleel

saleel — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:58:23 +0000

completely perfect. sometimes back i was thinking the same about how to inform friends about a blog post and deals. this is cool. i am going to try it. thanks

By: Adam Bush

Adam Bush — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:57:06 +0000

This is really cool! I just read the article and watched the video and about 5 minutes later, the widget it live on my page.

I have to say, it was super easy to add, no matter what blogging interface you use, plus it’s unobtrusive and easy for readers to use.

Time will tell if anyone uses it, but I certainly would if I found it on other blogs I liked.

You can check it out in action on my blog (just click my name).

Thanks Darren!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:12:13 +0000

Well this is the kind of widget that I’ve been looking for quite sometime. Viral marketing is one of my interests for some time now. I’d surely check this one out.

Cheers.

By: CoolProducts

CoolProducts — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:28:02 +0000

Seems like a great idea for my blog. Even though this one is free, does anyone else know of any free widgets for a blog that is similar to Tell a Friend?

By: Devin @ CoolProducts

Devin @ CoolProducts — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:47:09 +0000

This seems like a useful tool, but is there any research out there that shows around how many people would actually use a service like this to tell all their friends??

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:32:36 +0000

Thanks for the overwhelming response, we are very excited. Here is what is coming next week, a whole bunch of connectors, that will make SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend the most powerful widget in its category:
1. Wordpress.com: They don;t let you put scripts, but now you can let users announce every single post, not just the site.
2. LinkedIn
3. FriendFeed
4. Identi.ca (microblogging)
5. MoveableType (Blog)
6. Xanga (Blog)
7. Joomla (CMS)
8. Expression Engine (CMS).
9. Drupal (CMS)
The good thing is that you can choose what channels, services are appropriate for your user base, when you signup.

By: demetris

demetris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:12:15 +0000

“Email this to a friend” is a feature I always liked in websites, but I have a problem with services like this, even when no passwords are needed:

I cannot ask my visitors to trust their e-mail addresses and, more importantly, the e-mail addresses of their friends, with a third party.

I already do this in one case, Feedburner’s e-mail notifications, but this is an extra step I take for the convenience of visitors that prefer e-mail to feed readers, and visitors only have to enter their own addresses, not the addresses of their friends too. :-)

This tool seems to work well, though. I just tried it. Thanks for the post.

By: Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:35:59 +0000

I’ve been using the ShareThis plugin for a couple of weeks now, it seems to be doing great for me. Thanks for pointing this out as well, I’m going to try in on my blog.

By: Gio

Gio — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:26:38 +0000

I was having problems with my hand-coded tell a friend option on my site due to cross browser compatibility. This is a great find, I have used it on my site you can see it in action. Thanks Darren.
http://www.swimuniversity.com

By: Surender

Surender — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:38:44 +0000

Hi Found interesting and helpful tool.
I will use in my blog.
Thanks

By: Workout Planet

Workout Planet — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:40:06 +0000

Amazing special effect on that video, not the best way to promote your product is it? if they can’t even make a good video can they develop a good app?

By: Kok Choon

Kok Choon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:10:16 +0000

Wow, finally found an awesome service! I am looking for similar service for long time, thanks for sharing it!

By: W.T

W.T — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:43:38 +0000

From all the big internet marketing blogs out there (don’t want to name names) I dig your the most. This is just a shout out, great content all the time. Yaro is definetely my other favourite choice. Keep up the good work.
By the way a question: how come you don’t use the TELLAFRIEND plugin? Is it because you already have enough traffic or what?
thanks.

By: Jeff P

Jeff P — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:57:00 +0000

Darren -

Thanks for sharing. Even though surveys show 11% are using RSS, this appears to be an easy user interface and I am eager to see how it impacts my blog (I just added it!)

Jeff P

By: Don

Don — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:54:17 +0000

I’ve been waiting for something like this. It was so easy to install. Now lets see how involved my readers really are.

Thanks Darren,

By: Acakadut

Acakadut — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:44:39 +0000

that’s too long video for a tool that has already been out with so many versions :p

I even made one, check out Acakadut Soksial on my blog ;)

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:18:13 +0000

Hmm.. looks like it’s more appealing to high school and college kids to use on their Facebook pages, Livejournal blogs, and various personal blogs.

The exclamation points in the brand name are a give away there!!

It’s also seemingly user-friendly to those who understand what the icons mean and may not know about mouseovers. It’s not user-friendly to the people and organizations I’m trying to persuade to join the web community.

Thanks for the tip, though, Darren! I’ll let the high school tech club kids know the next time I see them!

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:16 +0000

That looks like a cool idea, but if it doesn’t do StumbleUpon and Digg, then I guess we have to add another widget on the post

I’ll check it out anyway, thanks Darren