Two days ago we announced Special Powers for Gurus including the ability to win movie tickets and copies of new releases from movie studios and book publishers. Today we want to talk about the toolbox for telling people about things you love.
The spirit of Glue is to empower our users, and that is exactly how we approached Spreading the Word. You are getting a creative toolbox for sharing stuff you are into. This toolbox appears in the sidebar on each object page. The first version consists of being able to send things to friends via Email, Twitter, Facebook and, of course, Glue; being able to grab awesome widgets and being able to obsess over things by featuring them on your profile. Lets take a look at how each of these works.
1. Tell Friends
Clicking Tell Friends button brings up an overlay with sharing options. You can customize the default message and select the method of sharing. Twitter and Facebook are checkboxes. If you’d like to email friends, check off Email option and enter the list of comma separated emails. You can send the object to one or more of your Glue subscribers, by selecting entries in the screen below.
2. Grab a Widget
Many of you might not know that Glue has a widget product, used by major book publishers and bloggers on over 30,000 web sites. The neat thing about these widgets is that they let the readers to explore books, movies, music, etc. in context, by providing covert art, description, previews, reviews and cool shortcuts. Today, we are delighted to make these widgets available for every object on GetGlue.com.
When you click Grab widget, up comes an overlay with the cover and 1-line JavaScript. If you are using Blogger or Typepad, you can install simply install by clicking the corresponding button. If you are using Wordpress or another platform or simply a web site, you can just copy and paste JavaScript into the exact spot where you want the widget to appear. Here is what you get (mouse over the cover):
The widgets are 175x - perfect for standard blog sidebar. If you are a techie, you can fiddle with the width option in the script. The widgets are great for promoting individual books, movies, and music releases - authors, book publishers, studios, record labels and marketers - take a note!
3. Obsess with things
The last button in this toolbox is called Feature on Profile, and it lets you stick a banner on top of your profile showing off the very thing you are currently obsessing over. Here is one on my profile:
This is a cool and fun way to tell people what you are into. You can remove or swap the banner any time. Also, other Glue users can grab that banner right from your profile and copy it on their profile.
So there you have it, a toolbox for you to spread the word about things you love - Tell Friends, Grab a Widget and Feature on Profile. Let us know what you think about these and tell us other tools you’d like for us to add.
Also, send us links to the widgets that you grab, we will be building a gallery of all Glue widgets and will include your blog/web site.
