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Putting them in the sitewide footer means putting them on every page on the entire site. I don't love that idea - I'd rather have a single link ("follow us elsewhere") that goes to a page with these links. Or even just put these icons in the News sidebar.

+1 (and, related, Facebook Like) are sort of a separate issue. They are interactive pieces and are designed to be placed on each salient piece of content on the site. Thus, not so much the footer, but instead each blog post (forum post, profile, etc). They are also more evil, as their goal is to track every piece of logged-in user behavior.

Why don't we start by adding prominent links to the News page and go from there? That seems like the least intrusive way to go about this.

I like the idea of adding the links to the News sidebar and agree that embedding it on the footer may take away from our open-sourceness.

I'd also like to add Google+ to the list of subscription options on the News blog. It looks like the Subscription Options plugin doesn't include G+, but the "add-on pack" does: http://digitalcortex.net/plugins/subscription-options/addon-pack/. I'd also like to create a Flickr account for the Commons and this plug-in provides a link to Flickr as well.

Looks great! Thanks, Boone. Sarah, is that the right G+ link?

This is awesome! I decided to move G+ to a page, if you could please update the link to: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115537930517533216680/#115537930517533216680

I will notify g+ users tonight

Thanks,
Sarah

Hi Boone,

Sorry to be a bother, but I was wondering if it made more sense to change the URL for Facebook so that it leads to our Wall instead of Info. If so, the URL should be: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-CUNY-Academic-Commons/240252585721#!/pages/The-CUNY-Academic-Commons/240252585721?sk=wall

If not, no worries.

Best,
Sarah

No trouble at all, Sarah! I've made the change.