Blending Social Media in WordPress
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The document discusses blending social media into WordPress sites. It recommends focusing on short-term goals and dedicating time to achieve them. It also suggests learning from similar online communities to enhance content. The document reviews several social media plugins for WordPress, including how to add sharing buttons and leverage connections from sites like Facebook and Twitter. It provides tips on effectively placing social buttons on WordPress posts and pages.
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Blending Social Media in WordPress
- 1. WordCamp Malaysia 2010 Blending Social Media in WordPress Presented by Yahya Ayob Tweet me @yahya_ayob Find me in Facebook.com/yahyaayob or Linkedin.com/in/yahyaayob
- 2. Self-Influence Who are you? Find the one thing inside that you are so passionate about. Write down short & long term goals to achieve. Focus on the short goals, execute plans to achieve them. Keep long-term goals in mind, heart and soul. Dedicate and commit at all times for at least 6 months.
- 3. Social Influence Buddies or kakis or mission comrades Similar passion and interests Learn more from similar groups and enhance self-influence
- 4. Self Influence Align Yourself Social Influence
- 5. Great example Self-Influence Naoko passion on translating WordPress in Japanese. Social-Influence Mingle with the WordPress Japanese community. Achievement WordPress Japanese users benefit from her books. Got hired as Happiness Engineer in Automattic.
- 6. Common Question What is Social Media? Real Question How to blend Social Media in the awesome WordPress?
- 7. “ describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences and perspectives with each other .” - Wikipedia
- 8. When WordPress becomes Social? Share news by blogging a post. Discussions via comments left by readers. Intense Debate Disqus Facebook Comments Practices - Read / Share / Quote / Link Back
- 9. Macleans.ca – Intense Debate Usage
- 12. Disqus
- 14. Shortcomings WordPress Limited Contacts but Rich Content Social Media Massive Layers of Contacts but Limited Content
- 15. Marrying them together I read a WordPress blog post about hair loss. Really good post that I like and I want to share it. I tweet it. I facebook it. I stumbleupon it. In those networks I just shared, a friend of mine David notices my shared links and find it very very interesting. Apparently, he has hair loss problem. He clicks the shared link and the link redirects him from Social Media platform to the WordPress site.
- 16. Next thing I know…
- 17. Landing strip – WordPress website Destination – Content Plane with passengers – Social connections Pilot – You
- 19. Social Media Plugins in WordPress
- 21. Wordbook http://www.openparenthesis.org/code/wp Your blog posts will show up in Facebook wall! Wordbooker http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/wordbooker/
- 22. Facebook Craze in Asia!
- 23. When to use FB Like Reading news in posts Viewing photos or videos Site browsing
- 24. When to use FB Recommend After you buy something, you recommend. After you eat roti canai, you recommend. After a holiday trip, you recommend.
- 25. CNNmoney.com
- 27. iframe option can only do this
- 28. xfbml + javascript option can do this
- 29. User wall with open graph metatags
- 30. The Easy Way Facebook Like Button Plugin http://martinj.net/wordpress-plugins/facebook-like-button/
- 31. Application ID / app id http://developers.facebook.com/setup/
- 32. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ Wanna hide the count? http://www.davidedicillo.com/whatever/trick-of-the-day-hide-tweetmemes-button-number/
- 33. Use the Permalink-Template tag to generate links Example: <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Read:%20 <?php the_permalink(); ?> ">Tweet this</a> http://wpengineer.com/tweet-this-with-wordpress/
- 34. Use the Permalink-Template tag to generate links Example: <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href = <?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?> &layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:60px;"></iframe> http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-facebook-like-button-in-wordpress/
- 35. Blending Tips title area before & after posts after or side of photos or videos near download areas eyeball hot spots
- 36. 10Steps.sg - Tweetmeme compact button
- 38. Vocanic - Embed inside posts with shortcodes or plugin settings
- 39. Right after a post in single.php
- 40. TechCrunch - Near post title
- 42. I Love Typography – after post
- 43. theAppleBlog – near metadata
- 44. LaughingSquid – twitter stream, after post & below video
- 45. MTV – FB Connect
- 46. MTV – FB Connect
- 47. MTV – FB Connect
- 48. MTV – FB Connect
- 49. Mashable – Twitter Connect
- 50. Mashable – Twitter Connect
- 51. Mashable – Twitter Connect
- 52. End note Focus & a definite choice. Eg. Coffee or tea? Start with Facebook & Twitter Blend it with logic and common sense Align self with social influence Rich content is still a must
- 53. Ask away! Tweet me – yahya_ayob Skype me – yahyaayob +65-93437601 [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- #5: Talk about self-influence very briefly before this slide then continue to ask about their interests/passions.