September 16, 2010

How to add TweetMeme button to your blog

Adding the TweetMeme button to your blog is easy with our Blogger Gadget, just follow these simple steps:


  1. Login to Blogger and navigate to your control panel (click “customise” on your Blogger bar)
  2. blogger_bar_customise
  3. On the Layout tab, choose Page Elements
  4. In the sidebar, click Add a gadget; this will open a new window
  5. blogger_elements_add_gadget
  6. The easiest way from here is to search for “tweetmeme” using the search box in the top right, click on either the title or thumbnail of the resulting match, then skip to step 8
  7. blogger_elements_search
  8. Alternatively you can install using our gadget installation file:
  9. http://tweetmeme.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/blogger_gadget.xml
  10. Choose Add your own from the new window’s menu
  11. Delete the text http:// from the box then paste in the location of our gadget installation file from step 5 and click Add by URL
  12. blogger_elements_add_your_own
  13. The page will change to a form which you can use to customse the
    button and how it retweets, however no changes are necessary you can
    leave all the defaults
  14. blogger_gadget_configuration
  15. Press the Save button and you will return to Page Elements within your control panel with TweetMeme Retweet listed in the sidebar
  16. blogger_gadget_elements
  17. You may now wish to re-position the TweetMeme Retweet gadget by dragging it within the Page Elements editor; we suggest at the top of your sidebar for best visibility
  18. You can now return to your blog to see the retweet button installed

blogger_gadget_installed



Congratulations, your readers can now easily retweet from your blog!

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