Making WordPress More Shareable, Sociable, and Likeable

TL;DR: Slides from my presentation at Washington’s CrushIQ on how to use WordPress to push content to social networks, pull social content in to your site, encourage sharing, engage visitors, and earn fans

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Slides from my presentation at Washington’s CrushIQ on how to use WordPress to push content to social networks, pull social content in to your site, encourage sharing, engage visitors, and earn fans:

Some of the plugins discussed

• Simple Facebook Connect
• Simple Twitter Connect
• Jetpack by WordPress.com
• Embedly
• AddThis/ ShareThis
• PollDaddy
• Twitter Mentions as Comments
• Disqus

Originally published November 14, 2011 | View revision history

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Ben Balter is the Director of Hubber Engagement within the Office of the COO at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform, ensuring all Hubbers can do their best (remote) work. Previously, he served as the Director of Technical Business Operations, and as Chief of Staff for Security, he managed the office of the Chief Security Officer, improving overall business effectiveness of the Security organization through portfolio management, strategy, planning, culture, and values. As a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development. More about the author →

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