Social Sharing options

Daniel Hartanto:

HI Christina, 

 

you can use the facebook sharer snippet

 

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share/

 

We embed an image button within a modal pop up that will pop right on the initial load of the confirmation / thank you page. The link for that image button is just a simple html <a> tag where the value of the href would contain that exact simple call to fb sharer.php 

 

https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=YOURPAGEURL

 

Note: Make sure to replace YOURPAGEURL with the actual page accordingly -- you can employ the Convio S tag to dynamically gives back the current URL of the page that you are currently on.

 

In addition to that we also use 3rd party widget called shareThis

 

http://www.sharethis.com/#sthash.04qHNEER.dpbs

 

that allows user or anyone to share the page that they are currently at not only to facebook but to various other social sites (e.g. linkedin, pinterest, emails)

 

 

Hi Daniel,

Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what yours looks like? I'm having issues picturing it on the donation or registration layout just by the developer links your provided. Do you have some wording to instruct them of what the widgets do in addition to the developer code?

Thanks!

Daniel Hartanto:

Hi Christina,

 

What a coincidence looking at our posting that's almost exactly a year ago )

 

Sure thing, attached is the share to twitter and facebook that we have embedded within the "Thank you" confirmation page of the donation form. In this scenario, I have them linked back to the donation form so that others could also visit the donation form and make donation to the cause.

 

Also, since the last posting as time flies and we are all have been evolving in a way on our approaches -- just wanted to share that  I have also been using this site to help build the content for that social sharing. This would likely be helpful for your purpose. There you'll specify what link to share, heading of your post, additional message you want to put (post copy) and image to be used for the share.  

 

Once you populated those fields, click the button that will generate the code, then copy paste the code onto the Convio WYSIWYG editor as value for the "href" link -- and in this specific example I am just simply using an image button (which is actually image wrap around the HTML a tag) as well as regular text based link.

 

Thus here's the link to the code / content generator http://watershedshare.com/

 

Hope that helps. Let us know.

 

regards,

Daniel

 

ADD ON: Added second screengrab to show how that share content looks on Facebook

Thanks so much for sharing!