<span style="color: #000000;">Every day I see something in the communications world that either irks me, peeves me or just plain amazes me, and not in a good way.  There's so much that I am making it a weekly rant on the blog.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">This week's communication fail has to do with sharing... social sharing that is...and how hard it can be to do. </span>

<strong>The communications failure for February 17th: Sharing done wrong.</strong>

<span style="color: #000000;">Here's what I have encountered this week:</span>
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	<li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>No sharing buttons whatsoever on a blog or major news site</strong>. (In fact, I found no sharing buttons on a post about how to communicate effectively, I am not kidding.) This needs to stop. If you have a blog, you have to include the ability to share. </span></li>
	<li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sharing buttons that share the name of the blog but not the name of the post</strong>. Why would I share something called say, Deb's blog and a URL and expect people to read it? If it said something like "Why sharing buttons are crucial" on Deb's blog, then yes.</span></li>
	<li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sharing buttons that share the name of the post but not of the author</strong>. It's about giving credit where credit is due. There are so many sharing buttons out there, it's hard to find the right one. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #000000;"><strong>If you are a blogger, do yourself a favor: check your sharing buttons right now. </strong></span>

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