Grouptivity allows you to kick start you social network by simply leveraging the “Email This” link or button! As a webmaster, you’ve got a number of goals.  One of the most important, of course, is to generate traffic on your site, and one of the fastest ways to do that these days is to set up a social network.  A social network is what it sounds like: a network of people, gathered for a social purpose.  In all of these networks, people are talking to each other, exchanging information, and trading links to sites.  From a webmaster’s perspective, they’re the traffic.

So how can you use the seemingly outdated “Email This” link to kick start your social network agenda?

• Manually: You can use the “Email This” link to highlight important text on your site, especially the text that you want people talking about, and you can use the html coding to add previous commenters to the address list, allowing your site’s readers to talk to each other

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• Grouptivity: Grouptivity takes ‘Send to a friend’ to the next level. It’s a simple link that looks and feels like the traditional ‘Email this’ link only much more powerful. With Grouptivity, you gather actual user analytics, you have the ability to track forwarded content, group email conversations and private discussion groups; Grouptivity’s is a simple snippet of code that allows you to create content based on what your visitors read most! It’s an excellent little widget that’s worth trying.