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As many of you know, here at ProSmart we specialise in creating WordPress blogs that give our clients the maximum control (partly because we host them instead of WordPress doing it – we just use their software). As part of a way of helping both our clients and our followers on Twitter, we wanted to give you some tools that will help you connect and integrate your blog more easily. To that end, here’s the first handy little utility:

The TweetMeme Button

We’ve just found this thanks to social networking wizard Ian McKendrick. This Twitter plugin for WordPress enables you to place a button into your posts and onto your static pages so that your visitors can tweet about the articles you’ve written. It also displays a counter for your visitors to show how many times that article has been ‘tweeted’ by your visitors.

Behind the scenes on your WordPress dashboard, it also tracks the statistics so you can see how many clicks the button has had and consequently, how many times that article has been tweeted.

Better still, the TweetMeme site displays all the tweets that have been clicked in order to spread the word to a wider audience. The site lists the tweets according to keywords so that you can search under the terms you’re most interested in.

To add it to your WordPress blog, simply log in to your blog’s dashboard and click Plugins. Click Add New and in the search bar near the top, type in ‘TweetMeme’. The first result should be ‘TweetMeme Button’. Click Install on the far side of the screen. Once installed, click Activate Plugin.

Once activated, you can configure it and add your Twitter username to it by clicking the TweetMeme tab which appears in the left hand column of your dashboard below the Settings tab.

To find out more about the service, check out the TweetMeme website.

To add the button to your HTML website, your e-mail or your RSS feed, go to the TweetMeme Button page.