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New Social Site Merge Tags

July 13th, 2009 | by Amanda

A little while ago, we launched a “social sharing” merge tag:

* | MC:SHARE | *

*|MC:SHARE|*

When placed, it inserted a large row of social sites that your readers could share your newsletters with. One request we started receiving immediately after launching this was the ability to specify individual social sites (not all of them at once).

You can do that now. Here’s how…

* | SHARE:SITE_NAME1,SITE_NAME2 | *

for example if you only want digg in your email footer, you’d do this:

digg-share

* | SHARE:digg | *

If you’d prefer 4 icons:

selective-share

* | SHARE:facebook,twitter,myspace,digg | *, etc.

(note: I’ve added extra spaces to the merge tags in this blog post so that they render correctly for our RSS-to-Email subscribers. If you copy and paste from this post, the merge tags will not work.)

Spread the monkey love:
  • TwitThis
  • Digg
  • Facebook
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • description
  • Google
  • LinkedIn
  • Ma.gnolia
  • MisterWong
  • Netvouz
  • NewsVine
  • Slashdot
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb
  • BlinkList
  • Design Float
  • Mixx
  • Pownce
  • Propeller
  • Webnews.de

4 Comments

    • Melissa Dickerson says:

      Love it! Thanks so much for creating this feature!

    • Andrew Laffoon says:

      THANKS this is great!

      However, I’d love the ability to just output the share URL for the various sites, such as:

       Share on Facebook!

      Then I could also use custom images and etc – way more flexible and useful, IMHO. :)

    • Kat says:

      Do you have a list of the available social sites anywhere? As well as how we should spell them; for example, is it:

      *|SHARE:delicious|*

      or

      *|SHARE:del.icio.us|*

    • Michael says:

      I just used this feature for the first time… very cool how the eepurl is used.

      Looking forward to seeing if it gets some Retweets!

      Nice job MC.

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