IndieGoGo Blog: Turn on Your Recommendation Engine: New *Share* Tools (Twitter, Digg and Yahoo! Buzz)!

We live in the Recommendation Age. We watch videos our friends email us, attend events our friends invite us to, and read news our friends share with us. We pay attention to what our friends think and do because we care about our friends and because we trust them. There's no advertisement or piece of press that is more powerful than a friend's "hey, check this out."

To all projects:

Turn on your recommendation engine, and let your projects be shared. Let the influence of friends work on your behalf!

To all fans & funders:

Use your influence to make a difference in the life of a project you care about. You want to see a project made? Share it with your friends.

How? Use the tools we've given all projects on IndieGoGo

Go to a project profile...
... and SHARE!

Note: New SHARE Tools include Digg, Twitter and Yahoo! Buzz .

We've added NEW share tools beyond GoGoWidgets, Facebook posts, and MySpace messages. Now you can send a one-off email OR email a whole bunch of your Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo! contacts at once. You can also share projects on Twitter, Digg and Yahoo! Buzz too.

What is Twitter? Read: To Twitter, or Not to Twitter... Wait, What is Twitter Again?

What is DIGG? Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by Digg's. You won’t find editors at Digg — it's a place where people can collectively determine the value of content.

What is Yahoo! Buzz? Yahoo! Buzz is an extension of Yahoo! that uncovers the most remarkable and timely content from websites across the Internet. Yahoo! Buzz gives viewers the chance to be an editor by voting (“buzzing”) stories and content up or down, submitting them to Buzz in the first place, and having a conversation around them via commenting. For each story that you see on Yahoo! Buzz, Yahoo! develops a ranking. That story’s ranking is based on things like the number of votes it receives on Buzz, the number of comments it receives on Buzz, the popularity of related search terms on Yahoo! Search, and the number of times that content is shared with friends over email from Buzz. Higher ranked stories are featured more prominently on the homepage of Buzz and within our category pages. The highest ranked Buzz story might be featured on the Yahoo! homepage, the Web’s most popular starting point.

Want us to add more SHARE tools? Let us know which ones and we'll get on it!

Cheers,

The IndieGoGo Team