10 Step Tutorial for Using Social Mention

Social Mention offers a tool for creating a widget (a snippet of code) that you can embed in your blog or Web site to show real-time search results from across the social media universe. It can be useful if you're willing to learn a little bit of HTML coding.

Start by visiting the Social Mention tools page. Copy the HTML code in the box on the left, and carefully edit the embedded search phrase in it to replace “socialmention” with your own query term.

Then copy and paste your revised code into the HTML area of the page on your blog or website where you want to show the stream of search results from various social media sites.

The widget setup page is shown above, with the code box on the left and a finished widget example on the right.