Share Links With ReadWriteWeb With Just a Click
We love it when members of the ReadWriteWeb community share links with us to things we might like to write about. In order to make that easier to do, thus hopefully something you'll do more of, we're posting a bookmarklet you can drag up to your browser toolbar and click anytime you're on a page you want to share with the ReadWriteWeb staff.
Tip RWW <-- Just grab that link and give it a click any time you're on a page you want to share with us. An email window will open (just using a mailto: link) pre-populated with the link and page title, addressed to us. Hit send, maybe add a note if you like. Breaking news, good background information, critiques of the things we've written - whatever you like. We'll give you credit for anything we use in a post, unless you ask us not to. Consider yourself part of the RWW team.
We may get a little spam at this email (please don't send any, ok?) but we want to make it as easy as possible for people to share links with us. We sift through thousands and thousands of links every day already - so please send more. Looking at a web page and wondering if you should send a link to it our way? The answer is yes, we want it. We'll filter though the pile for the most actionable information in the short term and we'll file away in our brains the best information as background. When you want to read that special ReadWriteWeb take on things - click that button and send them our way.
We've got a healthy staff of about 10 writers and researchers (and a small army of robots, it's true), but why limit story discovery to our own staff? If you'd like to help, your help will be much appreciated.
What do you think of this idea? We'd love to hear any feedback you've got - we don't know why we didn't think of it earlier.
Thanks to Jay Meattle of Shareaholic for providing the javascript to make this elegant!
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How about a distinct Twitter account that rather than follow we just send replies (with links) to?
"John, that's an interesting idea. Would you prefer that over sending a reply to our regular Twitter accounts? Ping any of us and we're likely to see it within minutes."
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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June 15, 2009 2:45 PM
John, that's an interesting idea. Would you prefer that over sending a reply to our regular Twitter accounts? Ping any of us and we're likely to see it within minutes.
"Joh, you can always Twitter reply to @rww, which our team monitors."
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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June 15, 2009 3:07 PM
Joh, you can always Twitter reply to @rww, which our team monitors.
ummmm... how about a webpage;
yeah, the link does nothing but popup my defaulot email software program; which i don't use cause it's not 1985 anymore....retards. people who're smart use web-based email only; to prevent viruses instead of installing shitty virus protection software which does nothing anyway.
learn how to program; javascript ain't programming; ain't hard; just tedious. webmail webmail webmail....
i can't believe it's 2009 and i have to instruct people who to compute; who run blogging sites.
"Lemon, i believe most webmail users now have systems configured to open mailto links in webmail. Thank you for your charming input though - if it's easier you can just email links you'd like to share to tips@readwriteweb.com"
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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June 15, 2009 5:08 PM
Lemon, i believe most webmail users now have systems configured to open mailto links in webmail. Thank you for your charming input though - if it's easier you can just email links you'd like to share to tips@readwriteweb.com
Lemon - you could even say that JavaScript is easier to learn than basic grammer!
This is a great idea. I wonder if you could run the stories through some kind of community filter first and see what bubbles up in order to spare your 10 employees from cruising through thousands of bunk leads.
Thanks - Love the site and the insights.
I used to use this trick to my friend's news blog, even to Posterous. You can also use AddToAny or ShareThis bookmarklets.
Share LInks With ReadWriteWeb With Just a Click http://bit.ly/XS8pB (a journalism experiment) [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/2183385359]
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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June 16, 2009 8:31 PM
Thank you for your charming input though http://www.chat.t7b.com
yeah, the link does nothing but popup my defaulot email software program; which i don't use cause it's not 1985 anymore....retards. people who're smart use web-based email only; to prevent viruses instead of installing shitty virus protection software which does nothing anyway.
learn how to program; javascript ain't programming; ain't hard; just tedious. webmail webmail webmail....
i can't believe it's 2009 and i have to instruct people who to compute; who run blogging sites.
I used to use this trick to my friend's news blog, even to Posterous. You can also use AddToAny or ShareThis bookmarklets.
eople who're smart use web-based email only; to prevent viruses instead of installing shitty virus protection software which does nothing anyway....thank you
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It's an interesting idea.