Social media plugins for Joomla are becoming more abundant and popular. These free joomla extensions can add a great deal to the usability of a website. Use these extensions to help expand your reach in the social media world.
The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin
This free Joomla extension adds tiny links that are all equally sized to an article. This has all of the big names in social bookmarking. With more than sixty styles and applications it is easy to customize this plugin and make it work just the way you want.
AddThis
This free Joomla extension allows you to put an AddThis button anywhere you would like. The parameters can be edited easily and the tool allows you to have visitors share your site with one click. This frees up valuable space and gives the site a nice minimalist look.
Twitter Module
This free Joomla extension is for one of the most popular social media sites, Twitter. This module displays your tweets and is perfect for anyone who wants visitors to have up to the minute information on what is going on with them or their company. For people, or companies, with a large Twitter following this is a great way to get the message of new content out to numerous people.
DiggIt
This free Joomla extension is for one of the most popular bookmarking sties, DiggIt. The standard Digg It button is used and it is easily recognizable for most users. Because of how well known it is users will immediately know what it is for and hopefully be more likely to use it.
Digg Module
This free Joomla extension also plays on the popularity of the DiggIt bookmarking site. This allows you to highlight your most popular articles. You can show the newly dugg posts, posts with the most diggs, and a number of other customizable options.