5 ways to build social experiences

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There’s more to building social experiences on the web than slapping on Twitter and Facebook feeds to your boring old site. Everyone wants to incorporate social features into their design, but in order to do this successfuly, you’ll need to consider a few things first. This insightful article is a must-read for newcomers looking to build a great social experience for their users. See a couple tips below:

• Give people a way to identify themselves and be identified. It can be as simple as adding an attribution line with contributing content like a comment, but make sure you give users credit for their words.
• Give people something to do. To get the interaction ball rolling, provide a path for easy communication, like allowing users to rate content.

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