Shareaholic Blog

How To Use Twitter To Effect Social Change

Jay Meattle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:43:07 +0000

Hat tip to Orli Yakuel. Watch the video here.

Reach and the Importance of Seeding Your Content

Jay Meattle — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:19:21 +0000

We absolutely love it when we hear from Shareaholic users on how they’re leveraging Shareaholic every day to do what they do faster, easier, and better! Our motivation is always to do whatever we can do make your lives a whole lot easier.

Today Dean Holmes has a fascinating blog post describing how he reaches almost a million people across social & business networks in just minutes with Shareaholic. The way Dean leverages LinkedIn Groups is particularly interesting and a must read:

Next, you want to send it to some connections on Linkedin to let them know how proud you are of the piece you just finished, again using Shareaholic, its really easy. Here you have a few choices to make on the LinkedIn portion – for me I have 10,000 connections in 1st degree, so it would be impossible for me to sit there and type in 50 at time names for me to send it to, but if you have a smaller network this should be a snap.

So I choose to push to my Groups, of which I have 49 (Invited to over 1,200 at one point), and I carefully choose which Groups would find this relevant and useful. By selecting the Group, and putting in a short comment, each group member will see this as a notification on their Home Page, then when they visit the Group under the “News” section again. Take note that many do not use this feature, which gives you a leg up (at least until the others read this). Numbers here for me across my Groups are well over 800,000 members in toal across 49 Groups. See if you sent it to every relevant Group you have that’s at least 800,000 people seeing your message.

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Shareaholic in “Twitter For Dummies” book

Jay Meattle — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:35:01 +0000

I was in a Borders book store the other day, and randomly picked up a copy of “Twitter for Dummies”. Imagine my excitement when I came across a Shareaholic mention in the book as I was flipping through it!!!

Twitteleh: Twitter for Your Jewish Mother

Jay Meattle — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:15:22 +0000

Thanks Jason for the tip! Watch this parody video here.

[funny video] Twitter in Real Life

Jay Meattle — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:31:32 +0000

Old one, but a good one :) Watch the video here.

[video] SEOMoz: How to Get Re-Tweeted

Jay Meattle — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:06:18 +0000

View video | source: SEOMoz blog.

[video] Hit Me on Twitter – Mistah FAB

Jay Meattle — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:40:05 +0000

Was playing on MTV today. Are you on twitter yet? :)

Full lyrics after the break.

Hit Me On Twitter

Chorus
Hit me on twitter x4
I’ll follow u
U’ll follow me
U can get get like one of tha homies
Hit me on twitter x2

Verse 1
Hey mama whats good whats goin on
Send an update straight from my phone
Over 18 so grown
Tell them stalkers better leave u alone
Follow me give me all ur info
And we can kick it and get closer like some kim folks
Whats ur government, see ur screenname
Is this really you keep on playing tin games
I kno u like hw i kno that its mista fab
Hit my number baby grl i bet u wont be mad
Better yet guaranteed u to disappointed
Come and join in i be goin goin goin
We can kick it like one of the homies
Cuz im tryna have shawty all on me (hit me on twitter)
We be close like my
Baby girl hit me on twitter

Chorus

Verse 2
First it was blackplanet
Then myspace
Then facebook
To go to myplace
Whoa
Now im stuck on twitter
If i c ur girl then i’m a go get her
Cuz im a go getter
Gotta be one if u wanna roll with usd
Watchin for tha groupie gold digga
And i wanna send a shoutout to all my
Anywhere i go, i be tweeting and twitting
Im addicted baby aint no way that i be quittin
Im locked in like iamdiddy
Oh its crazy baby i am diggin
See we can make it like one of tha homies
Cuz I’m tryna have shawty all on me
U be close like my
Baby girl hot me on twitter

Chorus

Shareaholic: Your Social Media Swiss Army Knife (an example from the trenches)

Jay Meattle — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:39:19 +0000

A quick example of how MarketingSavant uses Shareaholic for easy sharing in their daily work flow:

I use Shareaholic on a daily (OK, hourly…) basis to bookmark, share, post and send. Here’s a quick example.

1. I’m reading an article that I like and want to put into Delicious for reading later.

2. I right-click anywhere on the page and the shareaholic menu pops up.

3. I select Delicious from the custom menu of services that I use frequently.

4. The link is save in Delicious, but also sent to FriendFeed and Twitter simultaneously and then gathered into a blog post each evening.

5. A simple 2-second sharing exercise puts content in several places while sharing and adding value at the same time!

Read the entire newsletter.

How do you use Shareaholic? We’d love to learn from you and share!

Heads Up: Wordpress Issue – White Text on White Background

Jay Meattle — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:14:21 +0000

When you try to post to Wordpress via Shareaholic, it brings up a page where the editor is using white text on a white background. If you select the text in the editor, you can see there is text in the box, but the font color of the unselected text is white.

This is a Wordpress issue, and the folks at Wordpress are aware of this. An interim fix/workaround is available at:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/286920

Announcing: Shareaholic for Firefox v1.9 featuring the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor

Jay Meattle — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:37:05 +0000

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of the latest version of Shareaholic for Firefox – v1.9!

You can get the latest version of Shareaholic here, or if you already have Shareaholic installed, simply wait for Firefox to automatically notify you of the update.

NEW: Shareaholic Buzz Monitor – Enabling Discovery

You’ve been asking us for quite some time to do more on the content discovery end of the equation. The release of the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor marks our first real experiment in this area. This feature is powered by our own proprietary data-set, and those from our friends at OneRiot, and Twitter.

Shareaholic users can now easily discover and stay on top of the latest trending topics as they emerge on the realtime web. In order to share, users need to discover something worth talking about, which is why we think the addition of the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor is a natural extension of the user experience. Now Shareaholic users will have immediate access to the most chatted about content on the social web – the stuff that’s worth sharing, right now!

Do let us know what you think, and how we can improve. We continue to improve Shareaholic based on your valuable feedback.

Partnership with OneRiot

Today, we’re also pleased to announce a formal partnership with our friends at OneRiot. Shareaholic makes sharing fast and easy, helping drive the growth of the realtime web, while OneRiot organizes the realtime web and helps users find the most socially relevant content on the web. In short, a partnership between us made a lot of sense. I’m looking forward to what more we come up with in the future.

Other new stuff in Shareaholic for Firefox v1.9:

New destination services:
- Su.pr – StumbleUpon’s new url shortening service
- Mozillaca – microblog service for the Mozilla community
- Hub.tm – url shortener by inbound marketing company HubSpot
- Followup.cc – an email based reminder service
- TBUZZ – a nifty Twitter link submission tool
Updates to BzzAgent, Techmeme Tip submit code
Added support for Songbird 1.2
Misc. performance tweaks and updates

p.s. If you use Shareaholic, please consider posting a short review here. Thanks so much in advance, it means a lot to us!

note: if you use the NoScript for Firefox Add-on, please make sure you read this and update your white list.