How do I submit a social web service to be added to the ShareThis widget?

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:12:14 +0000

You can submit social web services here. We choose which services to add based on popularity and number of users. Each submission will be considered for placement in the ShareThis widget.

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How can I see the sum of all data from each of my domains?

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:36:46 +0000

You can see the total button views and clicks, click-thru ratios, and top shared locations from all of your domains by selecting “All Domains” in the “View Report” drop down menu. “All Domains” also represents the most popular content across all of your domains.

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What data is represented with “All Domains”?

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:32:52 +0000

“All Domains” represents the sum of all button views and clicks, click-thru ratios, and top shared locations from each domain as well as the the most popular content across all of your domains.

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What does ShareThis do with my contacts after I’ve imported them?

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:27:19 +0000

ShareThis uses your contacts to create a mashed up address book that is only saved once you register for ShareThis. You can register directly from within the widget or on our website at http://sharethis.com/register.

Once you have registered and imported your contacts you can use them from any ShareThis widget (Toolbar or publisher button) as long as you are logged into the ShareThis service. You can use these contacts for easy access to your friends from the “Send/Email” tab.

Your contacts are securely stored and are in no way sold or redistributed to anyone for any reason.

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What does ShareThis do with my login information for the services I imported contacts from?

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:23:17 +0000

ShareThis temporarily uses your login information to acquire your contacts for your personal mashed up address book.

ShareThis does not sell or redistribute any login information. We do not store any login information that is not needed to provide you with a ShareThis service. We do however store MySpace logins only for the use of MySpace messaging and commenting via the ShareThis “Send/Email” tab.

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How do I add Wordpress, Twitter, and TypePad to my ShareThis Widget?

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:12:02 +0000

Twitter, Blogger, and TypePad are on the Post tab. You can add the post tab to your ShareThis widget with the publisher configuration tool. Navigate to http://sharethis.com/getbutton and choose which version of ShareThis that best suits your needs. Follow through each of the steps to customize your widget. The tab selection options are in Step 2.

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How do I add the Post tab to my ShareThis widget?

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:25:51 +0000

You can add the post tab to your ShareThis widget with the widget configuration tool. Navigate to http://sharethis.com/getbutton and choose which version of ShareThis that best suits your needs. The tab selection options are in Step 2.

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What is the Post tab on the ShareThis widget?

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:19:00 +0000

The Post tab contains links that enable users to post content to their profiles on the selected service(s). The current posting options are Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and WordPress.

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What features are available for ShareThis Classic?

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:50:34 +0000

The new ShareThis plugin (version 2.x) provides:

Free reporting regarding usage of ShareThis on your blog or website
More social web sites
Post to profile options for user posting to social web profiles
A mashed-up address book created from several web mail sites and social networking sites
Automatic updates to the widget interface when ShareThis adds new services and features where ShareThis Classic does not

ShareThis Classic does, however, have a couple of features that the current version does not:
ShareThis Classic is internationalized and provides a language package for localization. This language pack enables the user to translate the Classic widget and the recipient view of the shared item into any language. The following instructions will guide you how to use the language pack:

Download a localization tool if necessary. We recommend PoEdit, found at http://poedit.net/download.php (It’s free, and the rest of these instructions assume that you use PoEdit)
Select “File” and choose “New catalog from POT file…”
Select “share-this.pot” from the “translations” folder within your “share-this-classic” folder
Input your language and country, and your team name if you choose.
Save your file as “share-this-es_ES.po” (This nomenclature is for Spanish only. The naming convention for WordPress is plugin-language_country. For more information on localization and language-country naming conventions click here. )
Use PoEdit to translate each string in the template file. The upper section lists the strings to be translated. Select a string and type your translations into the lower left text area.

Save the translated catalog. Poedit will produce a .mo file and a .po file. Save the .mo file in the share-this plugin folder and upload to your server. Make sure your installation of Wordpress is configured to use your language. The .mo file will be loaded by Wordpress and the plugin will appear in your language!

ShareThis Classic also has the ability to disable the ShareThis footprint to isolate the widget from the ShareThis service. The following steps will guide you through this process:

Navigate to your WordPress admin area, and change the URL of your browser so that the last two parts read /wp-admin/options.php. For example: http://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/options.php
In the list of options, select “st_tracking”. It defaults to “yes”
Type in “no” in place of “yes”
Select the “Update Options” button at the bottom of the list.

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How do I add MySpace to my ShareThis widget?

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:53:51 +0000

MySpace has recently added a new API that is now being utilized by the ShareThis social web tab. Users can now post to their MySpace pages or send as a bulletin to everyone in their MySpace network with ShareThis. In order to add the MySpace social web link to your ShareThis widget:

Visit the ShareThis configuration tool for Blogger, TypePad, WordPress or the ShareThis API
Sign into your ShareThis account
In Step 2 of the configuration tool, choose “Default” or “Manual” (If you choose “Manual”, select the MySpace checkbox)
Follow through the rest of the configuration instructions to place the ShareThis widget on your page

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