Are you a content junkie? I know I am. I am constantly reading blog posts, watching videos online, and clicking on links from various sites like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and Stumbleupon. A lot of times, I will bookmark a page I like or even share it with my friends. Sound like you?Sharetivity allows you to share your content on all of your social networks – including email – at once, while bookmarking it at the same time. This enables you to keep track of all of your sharing in one place, as well as see everything your friends have shared. No longer will you have to log in and out of many services to find that one link you shared 2 months ago.
In this article, I’m going to go over some of the key features of Sharetivity.
You can install Sharetivity to your browser as a Share+ widget. It supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome.
Save & Share Your Content At The Same Time
Say you’re reading an article and you decide you want to share it with a friend. Just click on the Share+ browser widget and a box will appear for you to create your email. Once the link is sent, it will automatically be saved in your stream under MySharetivity.
If you click on the Post|Bookmark tab on the box, you will be given the option to post to the various social networks/social bookmarking services you use. You can select the 8 services you want to see each time you use the widget. There are 58 sites to choose from, including Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Digg, Stumbleupon, FriendFeed, and AIM.
If you don’t want to share the content you can still save it by just clicking the Post to: Sharetivityoption. This will bookmark the article in your stream.
Find Your Saved Content Later On
If you go to your MySharetivity page, you will see a stream of all of your recent shares/bookmarks, along with the date and time they were posted or saved. If you’ve been using the service for a while and want to find an article you’ve shared in the past, you can use the search feature to find it.
Once you’ve located the content you’re looking for, you can open it up and save/share it on a different service of your choosing.
Selective Sharing: Cut & Paste
If you want to save or share just a piece of the article you’re reading (good for clipping notes), you can use the cut & paste feature on Sharetivity. Just launch the Share+ widget like normal and click on the Cut & Paste link.
It will take you to an Article Snippets page that has the article broken down into paragraphs. You can select which sections you want to save/share as well as any pictures within the article. Click Done when you’ve finished your selection and you can choose how you would like to share the content.
See What Your Friends Are Sharing
In Sharetivity, you can see what your friends have been sharing and bookmarking. You can view this under MySharetivity – either on the Sharetivity website or right within the Share+ widget.
Every time your friends share interesting content your stream will be updated so you can view what they’ve shared and possibly share it yourself. You can change the privacy settings to allow who can see what you’ve shared from the Dashboard.
View Popular News by Adding Publishers
Can’t find anything worth sharing? Just go to your Sharetivity Dashboard and look under Popular News. You can add publishers to populate this feed with news stories.
Once you’ve made your selections, stories will appear in the feed, along with how many times they’ve been shared.
What do you think of Sharetivity? Will you be using this app to share/bookmark your favorite content? Leave a comment below!
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