How To Add Google Reader Shared Item On Blogs

Login to Google Reader Account. Find the Shared Items link and click it. See the yellow rectangle in the image below.


On the right hand side of the Shared Link pane, you will find Add a clip link.



Here you can choose the style color and number of entries to be shown. To add it to blogger the button provided will do the rest.
If you want to add it to any website then copy the code given below and use it.


Any questions ?

The Secrets Of Blog Footer Utilization

The footer of your blog can be a stepping stone for success if utilized efficiently.
Though the footer lies at the bottom, by no means it is a thing to be looked down  upon. It can propel your blog right up in the sky, like a rocket engine, which resides at the bottom and delivers all the force. 

A blog structurally consists of four parts.
  1. The header
  2. The body
  3. The sidebar
  4. The footer
Why Footers ?
According to a survey, even if a user skips reading a blogpost and scrolls to the bottom of a page he looks for something to be done. Keeping this report in mind the post footer ads were suggested and they worked well. So keeping some interesting and informative columns in the footer is bound to help you in one or the other way.

Footers As Sidebar Saviour
It also serves to reduce the the burden from the overly cluttered sidebar. As the footer lies horizontally, it accomodates much more efficiently.  A subtantial portion of sidebar real estate  can be saved.

Prominent Examples
Many successful bloggers have utilized this space for various purpose.
  • Problogger has a mighty double storey blog footer. The upper is dedicated to categories and is divided into 5 columns. The lower row is divided into 3 columns and contains recommended Money Makers, Problogger Resources adn The About (Page) Column.
  • John Chow Dot Com is yet another double storey footer blog. Upper row dedicated to categories and the lower is divided into three columns for Recent Comments, Friends Of The Community and Blogroll.
  • Digital Inspiration uses a 4 column single row footer which includes About Digital Inspiration, RSS Feeds, Contact Us / Send a Tip and Get news on the go.
Get some excellent footer examples at 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs from Hongkiat.

What's There For Me In Twitter ?

Twitter can be used for umpteen reasons some of which are as follows.

Live Connection With Contacts
Twitter is a live connection between you and your friends or family members. Prizes won, missing a safety pin, current song on your iPod, crossed stages in your video game or need of cash, any thing can be instant communicated through Twitter.

Social Reforms And Activities
You can raise your voice against any social injustice or create social awareness like #SavePlanet, #GreenEarth, #EnergyConservation etc. Political campaigns (#Obama), for a Presidential candidate, reasons to support or not can also be carried out. You noted the #hash before some of the above words. Want to know more then read this - Tracking Twitter Keywords: The Key To Success on Twitter.

Business Or Product Promotion
The most common use of Twitter today is the promotion of business , site, blog, product or service. Without this ability the growth of Twitter wouldn't have been till this extent. Majority of the Tweets now carry a URL which points to the blog or site introducing a product or a service. If you also intend to have any of these benefits, you have enough reasons to join Twitter.

Ramifications Of Basic Usage
The popularity of Twitter and the availability of API has led to the development of zillion apps and sites to increase the usability. For instance, sharing files , sharing Google Docs, managing personal finance, fitness management, travel management and much more can be done using these third party applications or sites.

What Is Twitter ?

Introduction
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay in touch, through small SMS type updates. The updates are an answer to a simple question, "What are you doing".Each message is 140 characters in length. It is also known as microblogging.
In order to use Twitter you should either have a computer or a mobile phone, along with an internet connection.



History
Twitter was crated in 2006 by Jack Dorsey,and is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.  
Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. Companies backing
Twitter are Union Square Ventures, Digital Garage, Spark Capital, and Bezos Expeditions (led by Jeff Bezos of Amazon).

How To Use Twitter
Crate an account on Twitter. Login and see the box " What are you doing". Write in the box and click on the Update button. Start sending messages, which are lovingly called tweets on Twitter.

References:
Photo Jack Dorsey from Creative Commons.Original Link to Photo By Joi.
Twitter About Page and  Wikipedia

How To Share Google Docs on Twitter

In my previous post I discussed about sharing files on Twitter through third party sites. Here we will see how to share Google Docs on Twitter.

You Need
  1. Google Docs
  2. Bit.ly
  3. Twitter
Create the required document on Google Docs. Publish it as web page. Google will give you a URL of the published document. Copy the URL and Shorten it with Bit.ly ( Sample link to try http://bit.ly/4df8Hf ).  A smarter thing to do is get the Bit.ly Button, as it makes the task Much easier.
Copy the shortened URL. Open Twitter and paste. There you go ! If you have an account on Bit.ly linked to Twitter the you can post it from Bit.ly without leaving the page.

TIP:
How to share MS Office (.doc, .docx, .ppt, .pps, .xls, .xlsx ),or OpenOffice.org (.odt) StarOffice (.sxw) and RTF format document ?
Just upload the MS Word, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice or RTF document on Google Docs. Publish it, get the link, and follow the same procedure as described above.

Read More Twitter Related Articles Here .
Meet me on @Twitter,  Jaiku and Plurk too.

How To Insert Emoticons Or Smileys in Twitter

Make the most of 140 characters, Express yourself.
Tweemoticons offer numerous creative, useful and conversation enhancing emoticons.
Install Greasemonkey add-on in Firefox web browser.
After this install a simple script from Tweemoticons.
Now login into Twitter.
Start sending tweets on twitter and have fun with Tweemoticons ;)
You can follow @Tweemoticons on Twitter.
Read More Twitter Related Articles Here .

How To Make Stumble Upon Toolbar Appear In Your Tweeted Links

Ever wanted to know how to make StumbleUpon Toolbar appear in the links you have posted as tweets on Twitter. Here I show you how to do it.

You Need
  1. StumbleUpon
  2. Bit.ly
  3. Twitter
First submit your post on StumbleUpon. Open it from there itself. You will find that your post is being displayed with the StumbleUpon tool-bar on top. Copy this link from the address bar of your browser.
Go to Bit.ly. Shorten the URL you have just copied. A smarter thing to do is get the Bit.ly Button, as it makes the task Much easier. Copy the shortened URL.
Open Twitter and paste. There you go ! If you have an account on Bit.ly linked to Twitter the you can post it from Bit.ly without leaving the page.
Now when your followers on Twitter will click, they will be presented with the StumbleUpon tool-bar on top. Happy Stumbling.
NOTE: You can very well use the same shortened link for Jaiku and Plurk too.

Bitly URL shortner



StumbleUpon the Stumbling site



Magical Bits : the final result with the tool bar.

Stumble Upon Launches Su.pr: Shorten URL and Share In A Single Click

Su.pr is a URL shortener with the capacity to post your links and updates directly on Facebook and Twitter. It provide both syndication and discovery in one tool. Su.pr also provides some useful tools like tools to identify the best times to post, schedule future posts and see real-time results on clicks, tweets and traffic associated with your posts.


It is now in Beta and can be accessed from here.

To get the INVITATION CODE follow @Su.pr on Twitter.