This guest post is written by Robin Son who is a Security Consultant, Technology Enthusiast and Blogger. He blogs at DailyTut.
Its about Facebook Social Plugins, that you may find useful to install in your blog to gear up the social media touch. Social Media gained so much rights, in today’s internet routine. Just watch your friends or relatives who uses internet, for the first webpage they are accessing after sitting in front of the system. It would be Orkut, Facebook, Hi5 or MySpace obviously. This happens in 90% case these days, where earlier people open their email box as the very first URL after launching the web browser. Social media addicts are every where, counting me as well. But the purpose for getting addict literally differs between people. Bloggers depend on the Social Media to engage with their readers and fans. Politicians or Cine Artists engage with social media to cast their views on certain issues and their upcoming schedules as well.
The recent survey taken in United States shows that, the business lead generation for small, medium businesses people who entered into social media is 1 %. This is of course a quite negative result but the fact is, whether the small, medium business people have engaged with their customers in correct approaches or not. As the social media term is totally new to them, there is a high possibility of simply creating an account and waiting for some miracle to happen automatically. This should never be the case. Engage, engage, and engage with your customers, or readers to understand what they need and how you can give it to them with creative approaches. Its 2010, the survey result goes negative. I am sure, that this will not be the case for 2011 also. A drastic change in the survey result and in real will be seen with the help of social media.
Let me suggest you 8 Facebook Social Plugins that you may add in your blog manually to improve the social media interaction in your blog.
1.) Like Button
This one adds the famous facebook Like Button. Facebook recently changed the Join button which exist in the pages to Like. Without just that, they have created an API to let the user add this like button under any specific article or the entire website. The status gets updated in your facebook after clicking the like button in enabled website.
You can customize the way its displayed in the left side configuration window.
2.) Activity Feed
The activity feed option allows you to display the complete data of likes and topic shares made from your blog to facebook. Again, we can customize it to fit with the sidebar of the blog or wherever we want to display the activity feed. Height, width and color of the background can be customized in the left side configuration window.
3.) Recommendations
The Recommendations plugin shows personalized recommendations to your users. Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the plugin can display personalized recommendations whether or not the user has logged into your site. To generate the recommendations, the plugin considers all the social interactions with URLs from your site. For a logged in Facebook user, the plugin will give preference to and highlight objects her friends have interacted with.
4.) Like Box
Specify your facebook page id in the left side configuration window to get your facebook like box ready to use. It enables the users to.,
- See how many users already like this page, and which of their friends like it too
- Read recent posts from the page
- Like the page with one click, without needing to visit the page
5.) Login with Faces
The Login with Faces plugin shows profile pictures of the user’s friends who have already signed up for your site in addition to a login button. You can customize the number of rows to be displayed that decides the number of faces to be shown in the specified area.
6.) Facepile
The Facepile plugin shows profile pictures of the user’s friends who have already signed up for your site. Again, specify the width and rows to display the number of profile pictures in the specified area.
7.) Facebook Comments
Comments Box let the users comment to be displayed on your site. The user can share the comment on facebook with their wall that in turn moves it to his friends streams as well.
8.) Facebook Live Stream
This is a very special widget that lets users visiting your site or application share activity and comments in real time. Live Stream Box works best when you are running a real-time event, like live streaming video for concerts, speeches, or webcasts, live Web chats, webinars, massively multiplayer games.
If you are new to blogging and added any of the above widget in your new blog, then do let us know by commenting here. Will surely have a look at it and can comment about it in your blog. Will meet you in Blogging Junction with my next guest article soon. Thanks for your patience and i am sure you have enjoyed the article so far. Happy Blogging.
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Deepak Gupta
Apart from the Facebook Share app, I never realized that there can be so many other plugins for a blog. Cool share, buddy!
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All thanks to Robin. He is the giver of this great post!
Find some new plugin here.Surely I’ll give a try.
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Sure. Feel free to try them. All of them are good!
i just use one of them, the first one….will get my hands on others soon…thanks for the list buddy
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You’re welcome and thanks to Robin for this post!
Thanks for your comment bro. Try it out. Cheers
- Robin
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nice plugins .. but i use only 2 of htem
No problem. Feel free to try the others!
thanks for the post . Maybe i could use them when i move to facebook as well.
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Thanks for the comment Bro. Go for it now to increase your traffic. Cheers.
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These are awesome plugins. I’m thinking to try like button plugins.
Thanks !!
Surely try them. They are all good!
Sure bro. Thanks for your comment
Cheers.
- Robin
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thank you there are 3 plugin that interests me, I’ll try.
Freely try them!
I have tried them for a few months and it seems like only Like box is helpful. I only place the box on my site and it doesn’t affect the page speed much, but do you know how to get rid of the line at the bottom?
Thanks.
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I’ve got no idea bro! I will try searching on this question and if I find the solution, I will tell you!
All are good. I am trying to use these widget to my site
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I need to do a little revamp of my social links and post footers. At the moment, I am not using any plugins but coding them by myself.
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I find coding difficult so I prefer using plugins. But one day I will surely create custom codes.
Btw, it’s not like I do super-perfect code to make those links. They look ugly when I do it but they are light weight. Plugins look cool.
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I always prefer plugins as I don’t have to update the code again and again as WP updates. Its done by plugin author! Even I will try writing links! I think we just need an image, and the ‘submit to’ URL or Digg,etc. submit URL?
This is a real useful collection of plugins which must be used as social tools by bloggers to spread their content.
Out of these, I am already using Like Button and Like Box on one of my blogs…
Thanks for the share
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Even I only use Like Box ad like button, however I plan to implement the others in my blog.
I am really glad that you like it Amandeep. Cheers.
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Your blog post was great, I want to exchange links with your blog, do you think. Thank you
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Sorry to say mate, but we don’t accept link exchange!
I only use Facebook Fanbox Widget
Thanks for sharing the others 
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Thanks to Robin Son! I use like button and fan box..
Cheers Bro’s. Its my pleasure.
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I like the ‘like’ bitton. Simple and attractive to click !
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Yes Nasif. When we have the button in right place, then we get more likes from out visitors
- Robin
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Exactly. What you’ve said is 100 percent right! Button in right place gives us more likes…
I never use this plugins. Nice idea! I try it!
Okay. I tried the FB Like box plugin but could not get it to work. Anybody else here who has tried it with success?
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Hi Robin Son, This post is really great. I am not much familiar with facebook but now a days social networking is on boom. I got these tools helpful.