Recently, Digg added many new “social” features to the site. Including more personalized profile pages and the ability to shout your friends a cool story or just a short message. This quick post will be looking into the “shouts” feature on digg and how to get the most out of it.

Shout a story
Say you’ve got a story you submitted to digg and you think one of your friends on digg will really like it. Clicking the share button (located under each story) will bring up a screen with all of your digg friends. From there you can pick and choose which users you want to shout the story to.

Digg Shout Feature

Those users will then get a notification in their incoming shouts section on their profile page indicating someone has shouted a story to them. But remember, don’t over shout your friends with all of your submission, that is obviously not a good idea ;)

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Shout a message
You also have the ability to send your friends an actual typed message. All you have to do is go to your friend’s profile and on the top right-hand side click send shout. It will then take you to a message box. When you’re finished the message, just click shout it. The person you sent it to will then get a notification in their profile page (the same place shouted stories go to.) They then have the ability to shout back to you.

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The shout feature is a really cool way to interact with your digg friends and is a really nice addition to the site. When used properly it can be a good way to bring your friends attention to a story you are looking to promote. But as I said above, it is best used sparingly for promotion.

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Posted by Adam Fuhrer at 3:22 pm
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