Bloggers: Show the World What You’re Up To [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
The following is a sponsored post. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t mean every word of it, because I really do. 
Like it or not, the age of social networking is upon us. There is no escaping this reality, and if you’re looking to make your blog a success, there’s a myriad of sites where you can participate: Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Last.fm spring to mind - and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Probably, many of you are already using one or more of these services - so why not share a little bit of yourself with your readers? Of course, most of these sites offer a handy little sidebar widget that lets your audience keep tabs on you in that particular context. But I’ve found a better solution…
BlogCatalog.com lets you combine virtually all of your social networking activities in a single widget. You can have it report on close to 30 different services/sites, including the handful I mentioned earlier. Setting it up is extremely easy - just choose the services you want included and supply your username for each. Customize based on color, size and number of items shown - then copy the generated code into your blog template and off you go. It really couldn’t be much simpler, I think.
And just to show you that I’m one of those “practice what you preach” fellows, I invite you to take a gander at the left-hand sidebar of this very blog to see this widget in action. Seriously, this thing is very cool, especially for somebody like me who’s recently gotten much more involved in these types of sites. Check out BlogCatalog.com for more information and to get cranking on your own widget! (You see what I did there?
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Original post here: brett
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