Social Bookmarking

Do you integrate social bookmarking features and interactivity into your forums? If so, where? I.e. Threads, posts, the entire site as a whole?

How has such integration impacted traffic and membership?

 

I've Tried Yahoo Connecting...But It Dont Seem To Work.
FaceBook- Nothing
MySpace- Get Alot Of Connections
AIM- We Connect Well

 

AddThis! - Pretty useful tool, I had set it up to refer the whole thread, people tell me they'll use it sometimes. It's pretty useful for Digg if you're forum deals in cool stuff.

 

To be honest, AA is the first forum I have. So far, so good. I suppose I've been missing out in the past, because it's proven to be very useful (and liked) here.

 

I have the mod that displays the last four Twitter posts in the member's profile... that's about it.

 

My forum software has that feature, but I dont really use it. I just put the bookmarkings on my articles that I write for my site.

 

My forums software doesn't have the software but it would be something I'd love to try out.

 

I have no Social Bookmarking at any of my forums.

However, adding them could be helpful.

But, do users use the Social Book markers often?

 

I doubt they really bother, unless they have a digg account they really enjoy the attention from. Maybe if you repeatedly asked them to use the social networking buttons.

 

It depends on your niche. In a webmaster-related niche, like AA, yes it would be a good idea.

 

But there is so much more than Digg - like Twitter and Facebook.

 

Well I'm not going to ask them to use the social book markers.

I agree. Honestly, I have learned that only add modifications that could benefit your site.

Yes. And, the only one I can see being most used is Twitter.

 

Since I don't have vBSEO on Magic Theme Parks - Magic Kingdom yet, I noticed the social bookmarking option on vBulletin comes preset with only Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Google.

How do you add others? Especially Twitter and Facebook.

 

To add new bookmarks: AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Social Bookmarking Manager (on the left panel, not the options).

Others (Facebook) can be found here: Social Bookmarking Sites - vBulletin Community Forum
... and Twitter here: Social Bookmarking Sites - Page 4 - vBulletin Community Forum

 

There are more here as well: Social Bookmarkings - vBulletin.org Forum

 

Thanks Nick!

Also added MySpace and MyYahoo along with Twitter and Facebook

Edited: And, just to make it nice and spaced out purty, I added Technorati and MSN Live

http://www.magicthemeparks.com/mk/forum/showthread.php?t=7

 

Here's how to change the spacing: Added bookmarks spilling onto next line?

Forgot to add it to this thread the last time I did it.