If you haven’t had a chance check out the new and improved Grouptivity Share+ widget (hint: Simply click on the Share+ button below).
The new widget features a simplified and streamlined user interface. Depending on its settings and where it’s used, the widget usually has three tabs: Email Article, Email Clip and Social Media. The Email Article tab, as the name implies, allows you the email the post or article you are currently looking at. Simply enter the recipients email address, a message as well as your email address and you are ready to go! The Email Clip tab is similar to Email Article but allows you just to email a clip (and not the entire article). The Social Media tab allows you to bookmark the article on one of the popular social bookmarking sites (such as Digg, Delicious, Furl, Yahoo!, StumbleUpon and many others).
Since the launch of Social News, our Facebook application, we have been flooded with inquires from publishers and bloggers on how they can add their sites or publications to the list of available news sources in Social News. These sources can be accessed by clicking the Choose News tab in Social News.
To help answer their questions I decided to summarize the process:
1. Sign up as a Publisher on Grouptivity
Fill out the simple form on the Grouptivity website and get a publisher ID number and access to Grouptivity’s power sharing tools.
2. Embed Grouptivity’s Share+ Tools on your blog or website
Add Grouptivity’s sharing tools to your site by simply cutting and pasting HTML code, or install the Grouptivity Share+ WordPress plugin on your blog.
3. Readers share your content and distribute it on social networks
Readers visiting your blog or site sharing content using Grouptivity’s tools. In the process, the share content is automatically made available to the
Social News Facebook application. Additionally, if readers add the Facebook application from your blog or site, your publication is automatically added in their list of news sources.
4. Drive More Traffic to your Site from Facebook and Elsewhere As readers share your content with friends via email, bookmarks, and social networking applications such as Social News, you get increased distribution and traffic. It’s that simple.
Social News from Grouptivity is a Facebook app that allows Facebook users to read and share the most popular news headlines within the social networking site. News headlines get voted up every time they are bookmarked, e-mailed, or shared by a user - so great headlines rise to the top!
Social News supports any number of publishers and is pre-populated with news feeds from the BBC, CNN, TechCrunch, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other sources. Social News, however, allows ANY blog publisher distribute their news content through the Facebook application! Bloggers that sign up as as publishers and add Grouptivity’s sharing tools to their blogs or sites, can opt to have content shared from their site automatically syndicated into Social News. Users on Facebook can then access content from the publisher by simply adding them to their list of news sources in Social News. Facebook user can click here to add Social News to your Facebook profiles. Publishers and bloggers can click here to signup up and start syndicating shared content on Facebook!
Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch did a great piece titled Grouptivity Launches Social News On Facebook on the launch of our Social News Facebook application. Schonfeld does a great job of covering the key components of Social News and concludes by saying:
Blogs that want to create a Facebook presence that goes beyond merely republishing their feeds might find this appealing. It is an implicit recommendation system that shows someone’s entire Facebook network what news stories they are bookmarking and sharing.
