(photo by ShareThis)

As part of Solution Grove Blog's facelift, we added links to "share" the content to different social web communities.  We already have the standard "Digg" and "del.icio.us" links in most of our client sites and we initially thought of putting this in our own blog.  However, while browsing other blogs, I came across a niftier implementation.  It's a free script provided by ShareThis.  All you have to do is 1) register, 2) customize your "Share This" link using their "button builder", and 3) copy the code to your page or site template.

What makes this more attractive is that they are in the process of creating a usage report page which will contain valuable information once it's up.  The only issue we see is that there are a lot of social web communities to choose from and this brings out some questions:

• do we enable all?
• if just a few, how many? and which of them?
  
• is link ordering an issue?

How about you?  Are you faced with the same issues?  What's your criteria on the implementation of these links? 

I'm sure glad ShareThis is going through the trouble of providing this service for free; its one less thing (or maybe 16) to worry about!