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Are You Sharing?

by Greg Fry on July 16th, 2010
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Do you read many blogs?

Are you an active blogger?

Do you share posts with your contacts?

I used to spend hours pasting URLs to various websites to sent my content to various sites and connections. The reason for doing this was to get as much exposure for my blog post as possible or to share a really good blog post that I felt would benefit my connections and ultimately raise my profile.

Then I discovered the “Share” button at the end of most job posts and discovered I could share content fast and effortlessly.

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The Author: Greg Fry

Greg Fry has over 10 years Recruitment experience in the Irish and US markets. He holds a Diploma in Business and Life Coaching and a Marketing degree. He runs a company called Careers Coach and assists people with their career transition. In these challenging times Greg believes that in order to excel in life and business we need to think and act smarter than before. Today’s job seeker can find employment if they take a proactive approach. Areas that Greg specialises in include: Career Coaching, Career Guidance , Group Coaching courses (including - Finding Employment in challenging times) , Marketing yourself, Interview preparation and techniques, Self Improvement, CVs, Using Social media as a business tool, How to start your own business, Leadership skills. More information at: www.careerscoach.ie http://www.careerscoach.ie

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  • http://twitter.com/fredchannel Fred

    I’m still surprised at the amount of people that either don’t use the button or are not aware of it. As you said Greg, it makes it extremely easy to share content.
    As far as I’m aware though, the “share this” button has its complications for developers to actually locate it in a desired spot within a page. That’s why sometimes it’s hidden and therefore people miss it.

  • http://www.btbtraining.com/blog Niall Devitt

    Hi Greg, I use it and then some. As you say, It’s very very easy to use. Let’s share people! :-)

  • http://www.seefincoaching.com/blog Elaine Rogers

    What a great little treat – thanks for pointing it out, and so eloquently also!!

  • Anonymous

    Many thanks Fred, Niall and Elaine for your comments. Appreciated as ever. Have a super week.

  • http://www.wchingya.com wchingya

    Now how can I not share this? It’s good to be reminded to click that ‘Share’ button. :) I’m more of a Retweet Button user so here goes!@wchingyaSocial/Blogging Tracker

  • http://blog.myprojecttracker.com Barney Austen

    Hi Greg. I know that I started like you. Cut and paste, cut and paste. The share button is magical :)

  • Anonymous

    Appreciate the kind words. Thanks for sharing;)

  • Anonymous

    Cheers Barney!

  • Anonymous

    Nice post and video Greg. I find the Share button great and use it quite often on the Bloggertone site.

    Here’s another way in which I share.

    Google Reader is a tool that I use heavily to follow content on the internet. I subscribe to many blogs and sites and I use Google Reader to keep up with them on a daily basis. Google Reader has it’s own Share button, and what I really like about this feature is that it creates an automatic website for me which contains all of the Google Reader items that I share. So you can go over now to http://www.google.com/reader/shared/fbradley and see my shared items page. I’ve actually just linked this to a new twitter profile (using TwitterFeed), which you can find at http://twitter.com/frank_shares. I’m still playing around with this concept at the moment, so I haven’t fed it into my primary Twitter profile.

    Increasingly I think viewing the items that people share, will become an important way of finding valuable information, which is becoming more difficult as information overload increases. I’ve recently started follow Google Shared Item Profiles from such Social Media Thought Leaders as Chris Brogan, Louis Gray, Christopher Penn, Neville Hobson etc. and I find now that after looking at updates from what I call my primary sites e.g. Bloggertone and Mashable, I’m looking at what items these guys are sharing. I can even go so far to see which articles are being shared by more than one person in that list, and this indicates that perhaps it’s worth spending time on them, rather than skimming.

    Anyway I can smell a Bloggertone post coming from this. I might even do a screencast to demonstrate.

    Thanks again for the post.

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  • http://www.tweakyourbiz.com Niall Devitt

    Thanks Ben, glad you liked them :)

  • Anonymous

    Niall,nnThank you for including my webinar! I deeply appreciate your generosity!

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