New Social Media Law Student Features: Meebo Chat, Drag to Share on Twitter and Facebook

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Featured, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0

Today (actually about a week ago) we’re launching some handy new sharing features on Social Media Law Student: hovering over any image or video and dragging it over the relevant icon allows you to post Social Media Law Student content to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM.

We’re also supporting Meebo chat: using the bar at the bottom of the page, you can chat in realtime with your friends on Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks.

Try it now: hover over an image or video and drag it over the icon to post to Twitter, Facebook, email or IM. Or click “Chat with Friends” at the bottom right of the page to set up on-site chat. If you can’t see the new features, clearing your cache and restarting your browser should solve the problem.

Photo Source: Mashable.com

The features come courtesy of Meebo , the real-time communications and sharing company that ranks at 39 in Quantcast’s Top Site Rankings. We hope you like the new features and we’ll continue to add new ways to connect and share in the future.

As far as we can tell, we are the first legal blog to implement this sharing technology. Here’s more about the Meebo Bar:

The Meebo Bar

Real Time, Real Fast

Meebo lets users share and communicate with friends via the Meebo Bar at the bottom of the page of your site. We share revenue with publishers via brand advertising sold by Meebo. Partners running Meebo on their sites see increases in user engagement and audience growth.

User Engagement

On average, 20% of US visitors engage with the Meebo Bar on a publisher site.

Each active user sends approximately 50 IMs per day.

Key features of Meebo, including drag-and-drop sharing, are available to any site visitor, even before logging in.

Drive registration via the Meebo Bar. Logged-out users are prompted to register to enable the bar’s communications features. Sites without registration can use “Meebo Connect” to let users bring their buddy lists from Facebook, Myspace, Gmail, AIM, and other leading social services right into the site.

Audience Growth through Sharing

Meebo’s sharing features are designed to empower users to distribute and share links to directly to their friends, and across major social services.

Mouse over any shareable image, video, or other media item on the site, and Meebo visually signals that the media item is shareable with an overlay of “Drag to Share.”

The Meebo Sharing Dock lowers from the top of the site, where users can post the link directly to Facebook or Twitter, and/or send to a specific contact via email or IM.

Links shared via Meebo lead back to the partner site.

Meebo makes sharing more accessible to users, and easier to complete.

The Meebo Bar can automatically detect shareable content on the partner site via a simple “one-command” sharing API. Partners can further customize the sharing to optimize the user experience.