9 Useful Social Media Extensions and Plugins

Nov 18, 2009 by Patrick Winfield | Social Media Marketing, Tools

For any social media user at any level, add-ons and plugins can be of great help in saving time and creating new opportunities. Some of the listed are for specific sites, while others are more general. Check out some of them and see if anything can work for you.

Social Media for Firefox Extension

This tool is the the ultimate time saver for building powerful social media accounts. One of the secrets of top Diggers, Stumblers, Navigators, etc, is being the first to submit stories already becoming popular on other social news sites. For example, you can browse Reddit to find good stories already submitted and be the first to submit them to Digg. You can browse Digg and be the first to Stumble pages that are becoming popular there.

StumbleUpon Add-Ons

StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites that match your interests. Simply click the Stumble button and see the best websites. There are over 500 topics to choose from, and, the more you use it, the better your recommendations become!

Digg Firefox Add-Ons

As you browse the Web, you can see whether or not the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg and, if not, it lets you submit it with just one click.

Glue for Firefox Extension

Glue (formerly BlueOrganizer) connects you with friends around things you visit. Glue works automatically as you browse popular sites about books, music, movies, wines, restaurants, gadgets, stocks, actors, TV shows and other everyday things around the web. The Glue Bar appears right on your current page to show you friends who looked at the same things and what they thought.

Shareaholic for Firefox Extension

If you use sites like Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Gmail, and Twitter, you’ll want Shareaholic. Winner of the Extend Firefox contest, Shareaholic enables you to quickly and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites — such as Digg, Facebook, Gmail, MySpace, StumbleUpon, and many many others. This is the ultimate add-on for the link sharing junkie.