Social Sharing Icons
We think we've finally got just the right ones, as of about 5PM today.
What are they?
They are easy, one-click ways to share your favorite messages and boards with your Twitter & Facebook friends. I realize all of you love iHub so much, you don't leave our sandbox when you're on the Internet, but Twitter and Facebook are great ways to share information and most major sites have enabled their content to be shared via these share widgets.
By clicking the Facebook share icon, it creates a very nice little message that's posted on your wall and to your friend's newsfeed showing that you shared/liked a page on iHub. It will include the title of the post and and iHub graphic; or the title of the post and a stock chart (cool, huh!) if it was a post from a stock-specific board.
By clicking the Twitter share icon, it tweets the post or board on your Twitter feed for your friends to see, including the title and a shortened link.
We are not paid to have these share icons. We encourage sharing of the pages/boards/messages here, as tends to drive traffic back to the site in a major way.
It's very cool stuff. If you haven't already, I encourage all of you to sign up for one or both and see why these sites are exploding in growth. You'll run into old high school/college friends/family and discover lots of new and interesting things going on in the world via shared content.
Side item -- we had some space due to the icons on the Board Page, so now in the top right of the ibox, you'll see a Posts Today stat. Seemed cool, thought you guys would like....
Kudos to MEATLOAF for integrating all of this.
