Putting a badge for a Facebook Page into your Blog

This article describes making a Facebook badge to promote your page, and putting it onto your blog.

How to set up Twitter's "view summary" cards to work with Blogger posts

This article shows how to install Twitter Cards into Blogger - and explains why you might do this if Twitter could be an important source of visitors for your blog.

How to automatically share every Blogger post you publish on your Google+ page or profile

This quick-tip is about Google's new feature for automagically sharing every Blogger post to Google+

How to embed a Google+ post into your blog post or website - and what happens when you do

This article explains how you can put a Google+ post (your own or someone else's) into your blog or website, provide the post was shared publicly on Google+.

What is / was Google Friend Connect

This article describes Google Friend Connect, and how it can be used at the moment.

Stop Blogger offering to share your posts to Google+

This article describes Blogger's share-to-Google+ feature, and shows how to stop Blogger offering to share to your Google + circles every time you publish a new post, and what you cannot (yet) do with the feature.

Planning how to use your blog VS your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, G+, etc: what is each one for?

This article describes working out how your blog relates to the other communication tools that you use (sometimes called your "social media strategy"), and how members of a community-group can work together to so that their blog, Facebook page are used well. 


It includes a template that you can use to record your own group's decisions about how to use these tools, and a worked-example.

Six simple subscription buttons for Blogger

This article shows how to make a very simple row of subscription buttons for your blog or website, using image files that you host yourself.

Putting a custom +1 button into your blog

You can add a custom version of Google's +1 button to your blog, just like  Facebook's Like button.  It can go in under the title bar in the post-header or beside or below each post.  Or it can be a gadget.   And the "plus one" function can apply to  an individual post or your whole blog.   

Sharing blog posts to a Facebook page instead of your personal profile

You can share from your blog to a Facebook page, instead of a profile, by switching to use the Facebook page before you carry out the share.

Putting a "follow me on Twitter" button onto your blog

This article explains how to put an official "Follow me on Twitter" button onto your blog.

Putting a Facebook "like", "send" or "share" button on your blog

There is an official Facebook button that your readers can use to share your blog, your current post, or any website, on their own Facebook account.  This article describes how to get the code from Facebook and install it into Blogger - but most of the information applies to other blogging tools (Wordpress, TypePad, etc) and many other web-site tools also.

Adding a Facebook personal account badge to your blog

2017 Update:    
The tool described here is no longer supported by Facebook, and no longer works.   It seems that Facebook no longer supports any way of putting personal-profile badges on websites.


This article describes making a Facebook badge to promote your personal Facebook account, and putting it onto your blog.

Linking your Blog to the Social Networks

This article is about the difference between blogs and social networking sites, and the ways you can link your blog to the various sites.

Feedflare lets you add social tools to your RSS feed

This article is about using Feedburner's tools for adding interactive features and social networking links to your RSS feed items.

Adding a "share this to LinkedIn" option to your blog

This article is about putting a "professional share" button onto your blog, to let viewers share a post on LinkedIn.  Although it's written for Google Blogger users, most of the information applies to any website that wants to encourage visitors to promote the site on LinkedIn. 

Putting "Share this on WHATEVER" button(s) into your blog

This article shows you how to put "share this on XX" (ie any of  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or any  other social networking sites ) buttons etc into your Blogger blog, including having individual buttons inside post.

Send posts to Twitter with Feedburner's socialize service

This article is about using Feedburner's Socialize feature to ensure that all your blog posts are sent to Twitter.

Adding a Tweet button to your Blog

This article is about Twitter's tweet-this button, and how you can use it to let your readers tweet your posts.  

It's aimed at Google Blogger users, but most of it applies to other blogging (eg Wordpress, TypePad, etc) and website tools.

Tools for Linking Blogger and Social Network sites

Previously I've described the approaches for linking your blog and the social networks.   This article is about specific tools that can be used for each approach.