Adam found a new plug-in (well, new to me) for a website he is designing and I decided to share. There are many different views when it comes to the social media icons you should include in your posts to entice people to blog about your article, submit it to Digg or StumbleUpon, post to Facebook or any of a million other choices. Some feel that the more icons, the better as it increases your chance of being submitted. Others shun the design of this approach and opt for none to keep the page simple, reasoning that if someone really wanted to submit a post they would find a way or most likely already had a toolbar button for this purpose.

I’ve always been in the middle, flipping back and forth, so I was really happy to find the Share This Plug-In that you can see demonstrated at the bottom of this post. It is unobtrusive, mostly text based in design and kinda cute. It has evolved into a web service (www.sharethis.com) and you can login and access stats about your site’s submissions and preferences across all Share This enabled sites. Go ahead, click on it. See all the options? No, really, go click on it. Come on, just click on it! You can’t fully appreciate it until you do. There, see how cool it is? .So, hopefully this entices some of you to get to Digging or Stumbling and posting my more educational or entertaining posts, after you hop on by to the website for the Share This plug-in and grab it for your own blog.

I just realized this is an Alex King Plug-in, my favorite plug-in designer…OH GOD! Just also realized I am way more than a gigantic dork. I have a favorite plug-in designer. Beyond dork.