Questions tagged [sharing]
Sharing is the activity where users share content with others.
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What are best practices for a bookmarklet? [closed]
I'm creating a social sharing bookmarklet and button that lets users share a link along with an optional text.
What structure is more recommended to use?
this:
http://www.example.com/?share=...
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Sharing Links on Facebook with Multi-Language Site?
We're trying to decide what the best course of action, and have two opposite opinions on this.
We have a multi-language site (currently with English and German only).
When a user shares a link to ...
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Monitoring websites on the Web
I have witnessed that less people are using RSS technology for monitoring a multitude of websites. Rather, more people seem to be using social media products such as Twitter, which equally share links ...
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Contacts and content, many to many relationship
The below screen shot shows a prototype I am working on in which an email gets personalised for multiple people. Contacts might share part of a personalization with another contact but not the whole ...
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Is there a UI precedent for changing permissions?
I want to keep the pages really clean, so I don't want a button for every feature ("Share this", "Upload", "Edit", etc... pretty soon the page will be covered in buttons). However, I can't think of a ...
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Is adding "Flag as inappropriate" button necessary for site with expiring content?
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask but we have an interesting situation going on.
We are making a web service that allows users to share files, however, they do not have to sign up and ...
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Sharing Groups between Users
We are currently building a software application and I am working on a feature in which a user is able to create his own custom groups of assets for reporting. We would like to add the functionality ...
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Can I put the same share buttons on the top and bottom of a post?
I was wondering if there are problems with putting share buttons at the top and the bottom of the post. Reason is that some people share on the top, and others at the bottom.
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What icon can I use to represent Facebook share action for iOS? [closed]
I am now working on the interface for iPad app where one of the most frequently used feature is "Share to Facebook".
I am wondering what would be the best way to represent this action. Most of the ...
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Is there a reason to keep a Facebook 'Share' button?
For over a year now, the Like button enables you to add a comment, and it shares the story on Facebook with the thumbnail and all.
Although the share dialog gives more options to the user - they are ...
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Share Buttons on Landing Page -- Where to place them?
I've been reading up on share buttons in terms of placement, effectiveness, use, etc. However, the vast majority of resources are directed at blogs and other content oriented sites -- in fact, I haven'...
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How to show users the status of their sharing between my app and their social networks?
I am running a social commerce platform where customers can easily sign up via Facebook Connect. Products get shared via Twitter, Google+, Tumblr etc. All in all very convenient and of course, common ...
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Do customized "Social Media Sharing Buttons" affect the amount of interaction?
When lots of social media sharing buttons are listed it tends to look like garbage (see below). However, all the buttons and icons are (kind of?) easy to associate with the respective sites. I wish ...
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Best practices for Facebook Website Like vs Page Like
When you have a website, I feel like there are two choices of how to utilize Facebook's like button:
I can have users like the website itself and then monitor it via the administration dashboard that ...
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Should social sharing buttons be at the top or bottom of an article?
I can certainly see arguments for both sides of this one:
Buttons at the top: Easy to find, reliably positioned regardless of the article length. Extreme ease of sharing as you don't have to reach ...
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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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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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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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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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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"...
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"Upload a video"....
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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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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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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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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 anyone has ...
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Is a plain unadorned hyperlink sufficient for sharing a link?
This is from a post on the SO Blog:
So how do you share questions? I
mentioned in an earlier post that we
support a shorter URL form
specifically for sharing:
https://diy.stackexchange.com/q/970/123
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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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How to simplify an iPhone share screen?
After a user successfully performs an action - let's call it "Ramble" - I want to:
Prompt them to help their friends in the system do the same action
Encourage them to share (FB wall, Tweet, etc.) ...
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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 ...
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