[wdmmg-discuss] Like OpenSpending on Facebook

Thu Apr 21 15:24:26 UTC 2011

Thanks Sam,

I'll add your comment to the ticket and we can see what we can do!

Best wishes,

Lucy

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Sam Smith <S at msmith.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Sam
>
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> Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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