“Social Media” is standing the test of time for come-and-go buzz words, and it’s really obvious why. People trust word of mouth marketing, and that is only becoming more true with the Internet. When your friends email you links to interesting articles or videos, you rarely second guess them. That’s why I wanted to show off a few interesting plugins that are available to help make sharing your online content easier.

This first plugin is one that we’ve used for clients for a long time now. It’s called ShareThis, and you can download it here. You can go to this site and fill out a few simple questions to get some code that you can copy and paste into your site. It will look simple and clean, and provide many options for people to share your content using the tools that they are signed up with.

The second plugin is the TAF4Free (Tell A Friend For Free) plugin. This plugin has an option for commercial use that gives you many options. The free option has a few basic choices for appearance, but when you choose the pay option, you get much more, like custom email templates, logo placement, color schemes and more.

One last plugin that I’d like to point out is the AddThis plugin. This is another option that gives you an option for analytics if you are willing to register on their site. It has just about the same social media tools (email, digg, facebook, myspace, twitter, blogger, etc.) and has a slightly different interface.

For the most part these plugins are all about preference. They all look slightly different, but offer a similar service. Really, it’s all about getting your content out there onto the screens of users. When people do your marketing for you, you can’t lose, so why not get a sharing button on your site today?