[wdmmg-discuss] Like OpenSpending on Facebook

[Sam Smith]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> I suggest to install the Facebook Like button on the homepage.
>> To share the link I have had to copy it and then post on my wall (that
>> I have done because of the importance of the matter), but most of the
>> people don't do it."
>
> the questions is: which pages should have "like" buttons? I fully
> agree with putting it on the home page. Yet, we now have something
> similar to a like button on different entry pages (but its only for
> logged-in users at the moment). We really want to collect users
> opinions about spending items and classes of spending in different
> ways, and I therefore think that outsourcing it to Facebook would be
> counterproductive for those sub-pages.

there's a jquery plugin which does like buttons for
facebook, but designed to be more privacy friendly so fb
only see the request if it's clicked on.

I suspect it can easily be adapted to send you the
notificationah as well so you get the internal log as well as the facebook public like.




Sam

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