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Whether you are on every social media plat­form out there or barely hang­ing in there with a blog, you want to make it easy for your read­ers to share your fab­u­lous words of wis­dom. The best way of doing that is by adding social book­mark­ing to your posts.  It’s fairly easy. If you use Word­Press, these book­marks are just plugins.

Quick Expla­na­tion: Social book­mark­ing is actu­ally using sites like Deli­cious, Kirtsy, etc to ‘book­mark’ sites/posts that inter­est you. That being said, there are those in the indus­try that use the term book­mark­ing for appli­ca­tion that allow oth­ers to share your blog posts with their followers/friends either through Twit­ter, Face­book, Deli­cious, etc.  That’s why I chose to call it Social Shar­ing so as not to con­fuse the issue any more than it already is!

Social Shar­ing is a great way to gain more read­er­ship and find more peo­ple in your blog­ging tribe . There are many appli­ca­tions that can do this for you…it really depends on what hanks your chain. On this blog I use Tweet­Meme for the Twit­ter retweet but­ton (top, right of every post) and Socia­ble for the bot­tom of each post. You want to be able to give your read­ers the oppor­tu­nity to share to any plat­form that they wish.

A few other pop­u­lar WP social shar­ing plu­g­ins are:

Sexy­Book­mark

Add to Any

AddThis

I know that some blog­gers don’t use these options because it dri­ves them nuts if no one uses them. Remem­ber, the point is to make it as easy as pos­si­ble for read­ers to share your info if they want. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to share a great post, but there wasn’t an easy way of doing that.  Five minute install and you are ser­vic­ing your readers…that’s a great investment!

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Be sure to check out the other blog­gers of 31 Days of Min­istry Online:

Karin — 31 Days of Inten­tional Par­ent­ing