Questions tagged [social-media]
designing features of social media sites or features integrating with social media sites
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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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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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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? [closed]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Facebook like
facebook share
ReTweet this
Digg
Buzz
delicious
email
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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 ...
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