Social Media Badges and Buttons
You'll see a lot of social media here as I experiment with different ways to do thinks, and compare various delivery methods..
Take notice there is a "share this" link at the bottom of each article. This works pretty nice, There is a similar service called "AddThis" which works very similar.
ShareThis
Actively maintained 6547 sites currently report using this module
The Drupal ShareThis social bookmarking utility
The instructions on the ShareThis website show Drupal 7
AddThis
AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing.
Provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users
Actively maintained 19021 sites currently report using this module.
The Drupal Add This social bookmarking utility
Using Twitter
I was also looking at different ways to incorporate twitter feeds into a site.
The Drupal Twitter module is a bit of a pain to install in the sense that there are tools from Twitter to add Twitter feeds and Tweet this buttons that look neat, and don't require the install of the Twitter Module.
After installing the Twitter module I found out I needed the Oauth module, which in turn brought me to realize I needed the Autoload module.
To enable OAuth based access for twitter, you must register your application with Twitter and add the provided keys into the Drupal OAuth module.
Twitter module in Drupal does work in both directions, in that it shows the Twitter feeds on the Drupal site, as well as feed Drupal site postings to Twitter. But there are other ways to get Drupal postings to Twitter, such as using RSS feeds
The widget that Twitter provides is pretty slick, very easy to create and install, and is nicer to look at than the output from the Twitter module in Drupal.
Other notes and links helpful when building a site:
Facebook Tidbit:
The new Facebook Timeline cover photo size is 850px wide by 315px height
ShareThis
