Mixx Loves Reuters and Socialize Me!

Two cool things to talk about this morning!

First, our partner, Reuters, has recently updated their site to add “Submit to Mixx” buttons on their photos and photo slideshows. Reuters has an army of photographers that take amazing pictures. Be sure to regularly check out their Editor’s Choices!

Just click on the “Share” button and choose to mixx either the one picture you are looking at, or the entire slideshow. We continue to be very excited have Reuters as a partner!

Second, the good folks over at Socialize Me! have taken it upon themselves to add Mixx as one of their options for their WordPress plugin. First off we want to give them a huge shout out for including us, and second, we encourage you to hop on over to their website and install their plugin. It rocks!

Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to Mixx. You’re getting a steady stream of visitors to your blog. You could really connect with some of these visitors—if you knew who they were. Well here’s the thing, with Socialize Me!, those visitors to your blog will see a simple message when they arrive: “Hi, thanks for the visit! Joe’s on Mixx, too!” with a link to your profile.

This gives you the biggest bang for your buck. Not only are your blog posts being submitted to Mixx, but when a Mixx user comes to your blog to read the post, you kindly greet them with a welcome message and a link to your Mixx profile. What a sweet deal.

According to the Socialize Me! instructions, if you’re a seasoned blogger, then the installation is very easy — just download the Socialize Me! Plugin, uncompress the file (if your system doesn’t do that for you) and upload the file into the Plugins folder on your server.

For those who’re new or less familiar with WordPress, a Plugin installation guide for WordPress might be what you’re looking for.

Configuration:

• Pay a visit to your WordPress account and sign-in to your Dashboard.
• Click on the Options tab.
• Click on the “Socialize Me!” tab on the sub-menu.
• Enter your usernames, IDs and profiles into the relevant fields.
• Add the code into your “single.php” page (see figure 1, or click here for the code) — you’re free to place the code where you like!

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