Unless you have been in a cave for the last 5 years you will have probably notice the whole social networking thing. There is also an un-said opinion that forums are, to some degree, old tech and the conversations that people were having on forums 10 years ago are now happening on facetwittertubeplusspace. To mitigate this I know have the following "social" options available to me:
- Facebook login
- Facebook likes
- Facebook publishing of threads, posts, blogs, articles etc
- Likes system (vbseo)
- Tweetboard (vbseo)
- Google+ (custom mod)
- VB Social Bookmarking
- VB Social Bookmarking (vbseo)
- Probably something else I have forgotten about
My question is, how do you guys manage the combination of these things on your forums? For the reasons mentioned above I am keen to integrate with the social sites - however I am also keen to avoid plastering my site with a kaleidoscope of like buttons.
Then there is another question, like all things in forum administration there is a balancing act, enable FB, disable twitter - FB users happy, twitter users not so happy. Enabled everything and have the kaleidoscope, disabled everything are slowly die a social death.
So, what do you have enabled? Do your members make use of them?
07-12-2011, 08:01 PM
Its all gone a bit social
Hybrid Mode
