Social bookmarking buttons/badges for blogs have been popular for a long time but with the success of Twitter the Tweetmeme button has become widely used especially with blogs like Mashable who can receive over 1000 re-tweets on popular posts. Then came along the Facebook button which allows you to share a post on Facebook. Both of these buttons have official WordPress plugins (links below) with lots of control over look and location although placement of multiple buttons can be trial and error. The plugins allow you to easily amend the CSS to layout the buttons on a single blog post.
At the time of writing the the CSS settings for the Tweetmeme and Facebook buttons are:
Tweetmeme:
float: right;
Facebook:
clear:right; float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px
With Google Buzz now getting a lot of attention it was not going to be long before a WordPress plugin was available to automatically post blog posts to Buzz. Mashable did an excellent post on the current plugins available and all of these without an API available from Google. Currently the Buzz plugin I am using relies on a Buzz user having Google Reader connected to their buzz account so it can post a link through and the counts of the Buzz’s is controlled by bit.ly. No doubt soon Google will open the API and make plugins easier.
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Tweetmeme Button for WordPress as used on Mashable and other popular sites
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Google Buzz button for WordPress similar to Tweetmeme button as used on Mashable
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Share on Facebook button for WordPress similar to the Tweetmeme button as used on mashable
