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By Alex King (http://alexking.org/)
The TweetMeme button is the fastest way to allow your readers to quickly share your blog posts to Twitter with a single click. In addition to offering this awesome sharing tool, you can also sign up for TweetMeme’s analytic services to track the effectiveness of each of your posts.
You can access TweetMeme’s settings from the Top Level Navigation and then TweetMeme Settings|. The following is a list of the most important settings to focus on and what they do.
By Robert Tsai (http://www.tsaiberspace.net/)
Robert Tsai’s Wordbook is an awesome way to get your blog posts listed on your Facebook profile or your Facebook pages. WordPress will post to Facebook a snippet of your post and a thumbnail of any images that might be in your post.
Once installed, you will see a red bar across your WordPress administrator section stating Wordbook needs to be setup—click the Wordbook link to start the configuration. In order to publish your posts to Facebook, you will need to connect your blog to Facebook—to start this process, click the blue Facebook button. Once you start the process, you will be redirected to Facebook to authorize WordPress to communicate with your Facebook account. Now, each time you create a blog post, WordPress will create a new shared item in your Facebook newsfeed.
By Lester Chan (http://lesterchan.net/)
It offers your readers the ability to download content. It is one sure fire way of increasing your blog traffic and the happiness of your readers. WP Download Manager makes managing and tracking downloaded files from your blog a snap.
Start off by clicking Add File from the Downloads menu and follow these steps:
Now that we have a new file uploaded to the Download Manager, we need to make it accessible to our readers. The WP Download plugin will add a new button to your WYSIWYG menu on posts and pages.
One downside to WP Download is that you have to know the ID of the file you want to include in your post or page. Once you click the Download button, provide the download id in the pop-up window. You can find the ID of your file by clicking Download | Manage Downloads; the first column will contain the ID of the download.
By Twiogle (http://twiogle.com/)
Twiogle Twitter Commenter has a horrible name, but an awesome result. If your blog is lacking in comments and chatter, this plugin will automatically add new ones from recent tweets. It works its magic by taking the tags from your blog post and searches Twitter for tweets that use the same tags. To really take advantage of this plugin, you need to make sure you add tags to your blog posts; the more specific your tags are, the more relevant the comments that will be imported.
With any service that automatically adds content to your blog, you need to keep an eye on it. It is very much possible for your comments to get overrun with pointless Twitter chatter if you run this plugin for too long.
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