Blog/Site Tip: Meebo Bar
Posted on | April 18, 2010 | 1 Comment |
Have you seen the little bar on the bottom of my page? It’s pretty cool! The thing is called a Meebo Bar.
Meebo isn’t new. I’ve used it for a couple of years now in my online classes. It’s basically an online chat application. I’ve been using it in my classroom because unlike MSN or AOL the end users do not need to create a username or password in order to chat with me. I can have virtual office hours with my students no matter what chat application they use on a regular basis… or if they don’t use any. Very nice free app!
I don’t see a need to plop in the Meebo JavaScript onto my blog. I mean who’d want to chat with me, right? But if ever need to have a chat application on your site/blog… for example if you have an online store… you can easily add this feature onto your site. It’s just like embedding a YouTube video, pretty easy and free. Just something extra for your customers/guests.
But the Meebo bar I want to try out. I’ve seen it here and there the last few months but I haven’t had a chance to play with it until recently. I have a presentation in a few days and I want to include Meebo in it. Again I am using my blog as a guinea pig.
How does it work? Well, look below and you should see a bar. On the left is has “Share Page” and on the right are different chat applications icons. If you have a Facebook account and one of the other chat apps that are showing go ahead and log in to them. The same if you have a Twitter account.
Now, there are different ways to share. You can click on the “Share Page” and it’ll share whatever URL you’re on to your Facebook/Twitter/Yahoo/Email. Or, if you’re logged in to one of your chat application, that thing will open on the bottom right and you can drop the URL anywhere and you’ll be sharing my page. Try hovering over one of the photo (or video). You’ll see a “drag to share” button. Go ahead, drag the image and the sharing tool will be available. You then just drop the image to whatever your social media tool is and voila. Pretty fun!
Still not making sense? Check out this video:
A larger version of this video can be found here: Screencast
Need an image to test this out? Try this:
Enjoy and if you’re wondering what I used to create this video, I used Jing. It’s free!
Alrighty, going to bed. It’s 2 a.m.! I know I should have gone to bed a long time ago but I’m too into enjoying NOT cleaning, ha ha!
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This looks fabulous!!!I must check it out TFS:)
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