5 Toolbars social to help increase the participation of the users on your Blog

I've sure you just through before social toolbars: visit you a blog and see a social bar at the bottom of the page with sharing buttons, a search bar or maybe even a chat function. While some blog owners prefer to add social sharing buttons to their blog template (above, below or on the content), others prefer using social toolbars.

Toolbars with built-in social features such as sharing and chat, can really help you to engage your readers. Social toolbars are also an a great way to help increase your reach and visibility of your content on the web. Let's of eye at 5 social toolbars that you can easily integrate with your blog to increase the participation of users.

While TurnSocial is built more for websites of local businesses, they offer a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add to your blog.  Your readers will be able:

Share via AddThisSubscribe "as" you and your RSS feedView Facebook fan page to display your latest tweets and you follow on TwitterView your YouTube your Flickr photostream channelView

And much more...

Sharebar is a social toolbar created by AddThis. Even if they have recently stopped active development on it, it is still available for use, and works very well. The toolbar is smart enough to remember the services that you have used recently on the toolbar or with another product of AddThis and then display those first on the actual toolbar. You can also customize the toolbar to display only the services that you want to you readers to be able to share your content on. There are other configuration options that you can see in the configuration section.

It is probably the social toolbar more popular that you saw. It allows you to integrate Facebook and Twitter applications so that your readers can interact on your Facebook or Twitter fan as soon as your blog page. The toolbar can be customized with other applications and features such as:

A search bar for your blog) recent post viewwhos.amung.us integrationInstant page translationSocial sharing via AddThisLive cat roomsRSS feeds integrationLive notifications

And much more...

The Meebo bar is more than a social toolbar adds sharing features drag-and - move all images to your blog. This means that users can simply click on an image and then drag to the left to reveal sharing options. It also includes sharing buttons and IM capabilities built right into the toolbar. By clicking on "connect via Meebo" sign into Meebo chat, Facebook chat, will allow you to aim, Windows Live or Google Talk. Finally, with the integration of the ads right in your toolbar, you can also earn a little money.

Finally we have WP Social toolbar, a colorful WordPress plugin which allows you to "present all your social networks in an easy toolbar which is eye-catching and functional." This toolbar is more to social networking profiles your display and let your readers to connect with you, but there also some social features sharing; drive as and communicate on your blog or your content. It can also display your last tweet in a status bar just above the toolbar.

The method that you prefer, buttons in your model or social toolbars? Which toolbar do you like better?

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