designing features of social media sites or features integrating with social media sites
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Social sign in while using mobile applications
The use of social sign on buttons to get people to log into web based applications is pretty common and has become quite a norm but I am wondering if the same logic could be extended to mobile ...
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What are the possible channels and methods for sharing content with only one person from an iPhone app?
I'm working on an iPhone app that will allow users to create a "book" and share it with a friend. For the most part, I anticipate users will only share each book with one person.
It seems most ...
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3answers
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Should a Tweet button yield a suggested Tweet over 140 characters?
I found the Stack Exchange Tweet Buttons can do exactly this and posted a Meta question about it.
The Tweet Button is for instant, easy sharing, but sometimes an article title can be too long to fit ...
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Sign-in Methods for Visitors without Social Networking Profiles
If a visitor needs to sign-on at your site and they don't have any social profiles, their only option is to use a traditional (double opt-in) registration process. That is why websites should always ...
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2answers
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Information Graphics vs Brand Awareness
I'm looking for some information on mapping color to graphs. To be more specific, I've got a bunch of graphs that represent Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and now Google+ in line charts. We've had an on ...
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Should social media sharing icons be placed on the homepage as well as article pages?
I'm working on an online magazine, and we are considering which pages in the sitemap should have social media sharing icons.
We have looked at four examples of related precedent sites throughout this ...
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3answers
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Should I use customized social buttons
I am facing a cornelian choice.
Should I use custom social sharing buttons for UI consistency or should I keep them original for better recognition ?
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How to convert a visitor/ browser to a user?
I run a social learning network that enables anyone to create a class/ workshop on almost any non-academic topic and allows users to register online. Anybody can be a teacher or learner. Its free.
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Facebook Page or Group [closed]
Say I was hired by a store to put up Facebook account. Since I do not know who are the people that could be connected to the store, I put up a Facebook profile so I can add friends. This is against ...
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Social Login adoption vs Traditional Login
I have implemented janrain's social login on my website. I am wondering how important it is to include a traditional login (email/password) system.
I believe there may be a significant percentage of ...
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5answers
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What could be a single term (for use in a website) to refer to a community that encompasses students groups, academic institutes & recruiters?
I need a simple term that I could use in website's main navigation bar to refer to community encompassing academic groups, academic institutes & recruiters.
The target page is supposed to contain ...
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what do users respond best to when providing social bookmarking possibilities
I'm looking for what will get me most social media attention. I have a site that provides insurance information, so it would be used by most people, in the footer I'm going to place some social ...
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Social media in 'Coming Soon' pages
I was setting up a 'Coming Soon page' for a client, with an email field for users to register for updates and links to the FB page and Twitter account of the Web app. Their concept isn't ground ...
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Best way to present toggles for sharing on other social networks?
I'm trying to come up with a way to display toggles for whether you want to share your status on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr. This is intended for a web application.
I looked at a couple of other ...
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Social media sharing: Does simply showing icons stimulate action?
This is tangentially related to the question "Social Media Icons - show all visible, or group under 'share'?".
In my organization, we've generally found that displaying the individual icons for ...
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5answers
177 views
Single replacement for: “Upload a document” and “Upload a Video”
I need a single replacement, to place in GUI, that categorises both "document" and "video". I need to place in my website interface to replace:
"Upload a document"...
and
"Upload a ...
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3answers
1k views
Optimal placement of share on Twitter/Facebook/social media widget on web page to encourage use
Like most every site out there, I develop a site where we encourage people to share the content through Twitter and Facebook.
Also, like most other sites, the placement of the widgets is in a fixed ...
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3answers
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Should users of a social app be required to send/accept friend requests?
I'm currently working on a social music-based application that, among other things, allows users to recommend music to their friends. In trying to pare down the system to be as simple and ...
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What phrase would you use instead of “Likes” for an airline related forum?
Implementing a socially driven forum for a major Airline (similar to stackexchange I guess) and trying to come up with a different name for the "Likes" functionality which is essentially like the ...
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Creative alternatives for word 'Home' on a web application
What could be creative alternatives for word 'Home' on a social network applications that implies as a default space/ a living space or a place where all the updates gather?
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What could be an alternative for “Share this post with my network!” in a social application?
What could be an alternative word implying Share this post to my network! for use in a social application ?
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facebook live stream vs facebook comments [closed]
there's a FB live stream and facebook comments, I donn really understand what's the diff, and which one of them is better for my website, I have daily half hour live streaming
can I use both into my ...
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3answers
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How to align social buttons without losing vertical space?
I've add in some social buttons to one of our pages. I don't want to have to put them in a horizontal row because that'll push more products down below the fold.
This is my idea so far:
Close ...
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Why is everybody using Facebook, is it good marketing or good usability?
Why is everybody using Facebook? Is it good marketing or good usability? If it's usability, what specifically do they offer that is different from others? I was happily doing social networking on ...
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2answers
166 views
Are there any usability studies around facebook like social user interfaces? [closed]
Are there any usability studies around facebook like social user interfaces? Please share.
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3answers
144 views
How do you choose which sharing buttons to offer on your web app? [closed]
Are many sharing buttons good on a web app? How about design for a online book reading app. What matters on choosing sharing tools? My feeling is to know the function of sharing widgets and know the ...
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2answers
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Sharing buttons statistics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are 'share this' buttons really effective?
Many websites include 'sharing buttons' (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) on their websites these days. I'm wondering if ...
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4answers
650 views
Social Media Icons - show all visible, or group under “share”?
I continually run into this issue on sites that want to offer social media links to share content on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and often to share via email or text message as well. Showing all of these ...
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social share buttons best position
If you go to any site with content you will have social share buttons.
I was wondering where would you consider the best position for social buttons.
I saw 3 approaches:
bottom of the content page
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3answers
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UX Facebook “Like” Page before the Good Stuff [closed]
If you took a questionnaire online with the idea that when you finish you will get training, and after you finish the questionnaire you are presented with a popup box asking you to "Like" the ...
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4answers
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Why are foursquare tweets not annoying?
(First off, this is from the perspective of UX and behavior analysis)
There are a bunch of services that use platforms like twitter or facebook to publish the change of state in their own systems.
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6answers
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Layout suggestions for social media sharing page
I need to make a "Share This Site" page that offer all the regular social sharing mediums and send to a friend email option.
With
Facebook like
facebook share
ReTweet this
Digg
Buzz
delicious
email
...
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6answers
78 views
How do you convince people that social software applications are good for business? [closed]
We're trying to introduce social software applications into our organisation but attempts thus far are meeting resistance because:
we're a large, conservative organisation that will always be a late ...
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Are 'share this' buttons really effective?
On a lot of websites (especially blogs), we find 'share it' buttons like this --> .
Personally, I never used one. If I want to share something online, I copy the link and manually share it through ...
