I'm trying out a new social networking tool called Tell-a-Friend. Have any of you tried the Tell-a-Friend tool yet?
Here is how it's supposed to work... It should allow you to share blog posts with those you think might be interested in them via:
* email (various types)
* instant messaging (various ones to choose from)
* blog (different types listed)
* social networking (Twitter and Facebook)
Perhaps you've read something on this blog that you think might help someone else or lead them to a helpful resource? Maybe you'd like to try this tool and see how it works for you?
I've had mixed results trying it out myself but I'm interested in hearing others' experiences.
If you're interested in sharing info from one of the posts on this blog, click on the small, white "Tell-a-Friend" widget at the bottom of the blog post you'd like to share. A window will pop up. It will then give you choices of various ways to share the link. I had mixed results; some worked when I tried it and some didn't. (See details below)... When it worked, it was cool. When it didn't, it was frustrating. Since this is a new tool, I'm wondering if it's not fully functional yet???
Has anyone else tried Tell-a-Friend? I just heard about it via a ProBlogger email from last Wednesday. Is anyone else having trouble getting some of the functions to work?
Here are various ways to use Tell-a-Friend:
Email:
Direct email (manually typing address in): It worked fine.
Gmail: I couldn't get it to login to my Gmail to message myself even though I verified on Gmail that I was using the correct userid and password. Hmm.
Yahoo: It worked fine.
Windows Live: I didn't try this.
Social:
Twitter - It sent the message but it's not a useable hyperlink. So I really don't see how it works on twitter.
Facebook - It would not login to Facebook when I tried sending a message to myself.
Blog:
I tried BlogSpot only. It would not work when I tried sending to my own blog address.
IM:
I didn't try this yet.
If you try this out, let me know what you think! Maybe you'll have better luck than I did.
Here is a video on Tell-a-Friend. If you have tried Tell-a-Friend, please let me know how it worked for you.
Here is a video explaining Tell-a-Friend:
If you try it and you like it, here's where to get the code for the Tell-a-Friend widget:
Tell-a-Friend
This article was posted by Jeanne via "Jeanne's Endo Blog" at www.endendoat.blogspot.com.
