Re: FN-FORUM: Thoughts on social tools, bookmarking and newsfeeds anyone?

date posted 25th March 2008 11:11

You should think of it as the Digg, furl or whatever's, users who link to
your site rather than the sites themselves.
Your site makes the news and then your visitors post the links on the
networking sites.

If you place bookmarking links on your sites - it just makes it easier for
your visitors to create the links.

We use addthis dot com links on our sites - this links to a page listing all
major bookmarking sites, rather than directly to the sites themselves.

Nigel.
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From: "Duncan Glendinning" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:24 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Thoughts on social tools, bookmarking and newsfeeds
anyone?


> Now my belief is that because of the nature of their site, they should
> be making news and creating the features that make the likes of
> facebook and others want or need to link to them, not the other way
> around...as once you haven sent your visitors away, they will go there
> direct and you have lost your traffic and all hope of signup. No? The
> key I think is in developing the features on their site rather than
> looking to other sites for them to compensate.
>
> Best,
> Duncan
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