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omeka-s-modules / Sharing

Omeka S module for sharing content via 1) Social Media and 2) Embedding Omeka S content in other sites
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Generalize to arbitrary script insertion? #2

Closed patrickmj closed 8 years ago

patrickmj commented 8 years ago

The two services we've looked at, AddThis and ShareThis, both tend toward having a user account with their service. From that, they can configure the style and options for the clicking on social media networks to share. Without that login, there is less functionality, especially for analytics on sharing. Also, the ToS for ShareThis seem to preclude us from making a module to insert the code ourselves.

For sharing on social media, then, does it make more sense for us to just facilitate inserting the <script> element provided by whatever service users choose? That'd 1) increase functionality to let them use the service's analytics and 2) get us around the prohibition on using ShareThis. It would, however, remove the low-level functionality of having an anonymous service, like we currently do with SocialBookmarking in Omeka 2.

Thoughts, @sleon, @jimsafley, @zerocrates, @sheilabrennan, @mebrett, @kalbers ?

patrickmj commented 8 years ago

Consensus at Dec 18 review seemed to be to roll our own links, and not use any service.