Social networking and bookmarking websites are so powerful that a blog article can reach to the other end of the world very quickly. There are quite a number of blog widgets out there that allow readers to easily share interesting blog posts with their friends to social sites in just a click. Two great examples would be Tweetmeme’s retweet button and Facebook’s Share button. Bloggers use them to garner more visitors and boost engagement.
Reshare.it is a mash-up of both Tweetmeme’s retweet button and ShareThis button. Created by Zachary Collins, the 14-year-old founder of Yazzem, Reshare.it lets anyone generate a share button to place on their website or blog, and gives blog readers a wide variety of social services to choose from. The button will display how many times a webpage is being shared. Every time a page is ‘reshared’ on a social network or bookmarking website, it is added to the homepage.
Supported social services include Bebo, Blogger, Yahoo! Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Fark, FriendFeed, Google, HelloTxt, Identi.ca, Linkedin, MySpace, Netvibes, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, Virb, Xanga, Yammer, Yzzem, Bit.ly, and last but not least via email.
The button comes in 5 different designs, and you can customize your own style such as selecting their preferred background color, border color, and text color. After you’re satisfied with your customization, simply embed the one-line code into any webpage, and you’re good to go.
Currently, the site is in beta and Zachary plans to add 100+ services in the near future to be offered to webmasters and users, which would make Reshare.it the most powerful social sharing tool. He is still developing a WordPress plugin, where you can automatically add the Reshare.it button to your blog.
Give Reshare.it a try!