Typable Social Sharing Prompt

Lindsay Solomon

Hello!


I am trying to find a way to get a text box on my website for social sharing. In theory, they would be able to type whatever they want and then click a button to easily share it on twitter or facebook. Ideally, we would be able to add a hashtag automatically as well.


Does anyone know of anything like this? I'd also be willing to find one that works for only one social platform.

Jesse Kelsey

Hi Lindsay,


I wrote some code for something similar several years ago. It's a PageBuilder page in Luminate. I used javascript to assemble tweets. There are some canned messages and a way for people to write their own tweet, while appending some hashtags and a link. People could choose to "Tweet Romney" or "Tweet Obama:"  https://secure.nokidhungry.org/site/SPageNavigator/2012_DD_Hunger_Knows_No_Party


Here's a blog post about the technical aspects of that campaign: http://donordigital.com/hunger-knows-no-party-social-media-engagement-campaign-for-share-our-strength/


The same kind of interactive social sharing could be done for other services like Facebook.


-Jesse

Lindsay Solomon

Jesse Kelsey:

Hi Lindsay,


I wrote some code for something similar several years ago. It's a PageBuilder page in Luminate. I used javascript to assemble tweets. There are some canned messages and a way for people to write their own tweet, while appending some hashtags and a link. People could choose to "Tweet Romney" or "Tweet Obama:"  https://secure.nokidhungry.org/site/SPageNavigator/2012_DD_Hunger_Knows_No_Party


Here's a blog post about the technical aspects of that campaign: http://donordigital.com/hunger-knows-no-party-social-media-engagement-campaign-for-share-our-strength/


The same kind of interactive social sharing could be done for other services like Facebook.


-Jesse

Hi Jesse,


The last box in that looks exactly like what I want! I don't really see in your blog post on how to get that last bit. Could you go a little deeper into that?

Brian Mucha

We just rolled out our new Social Media Ambassador program, where you might find something to steal as well.


It consists of two pages, a Join page and a Tasks page. The join page starts out with a Luminate survey, which creates a constituent record and gets them into an email interest. Completing the survey also unlocks the subsequent steps of initial activities, such as following us, posting banner images, etc.


Then we send a monthly email directing the users to the tasks page (for which I borrowed heavily from the Blackbaud Champions design.) Each task is a tile with a suggested tweet or post, etc. Completing a task allows the user to mark it done, which adds an interaction to the cons record.


http://luriechildrens.org/smap

 

Brian Mucha

"I am trying to find a way to get a text box on my website for social sharing."


Getting the entire thing embedded in your page is a lot more difficult than allowing the pop-up to handle the mechanics. You'll have to deal with getting them logged in to their social media account and all that. Instead, you handle building the text, images, tags and such for the tweet or post on your page, and then hand it off to the pop-up which is managed by each social service directly.


In all cases they see what you built, but may ammend or alter it before posting.