Most of us learned to share in kindergarten, maybe earlier if we had siblings. Who knew the art of sharing would become even more important when we became adults?

We’ve heard it, we’ve read it, we’ve even said it: To create and maintain a successful online presence, you need to be friendly and helpful—and you need to share relevant content. But is there a way to extend your brand while sharing content without being overtly promotional? Of course.

A positive experience with your brand lingers with those who encounter it. These 10 quick tips encourage you to share liberally and make it easy for others to find, use, and distribute your content… all the while subtly increasing your brand’s influence online.

1. Multichannel Distribution

Use multichannel distribution media and platforms, such as Posterous and Tumblr that allow you to assemble your content and send it via email. Once your branded content is distributed, users and fans can easily share it with others.

2. Social Bling

Use social-sharing icons, such as ShareThis, AddToAny, and AddThis, to enable single-click sharing on your website, blog, or other online property to make it simple for users to share content immediately.

3. Tweet and Re-Tweet

Using Twitter, post short messages with information or links to your content. Followers will re-tweet posts of interest.

Be alert and reciprocate, and thank those who re-tweet you: It’s a good way to start, or continue, a conversation.

4. Mobile Apps

Aggregate your content from various sources into a branded iPhone, Android, or other smartphone app. The market is competitive, so make sure your app is interesting, relevant, valuable, useful, or entertaining.

Give your content away as branded e-books, whitepapers, and audio or video downloads. Make it available on multiple platforms.

6. Flash Drive

Upload you content onto a portable device, such as a branded flash drive, and personally hand it to (or send it to) a prospect or influential person.

7. Incentive to Share

Create a contest or sweepstakes to attract people to your content, then provide them with incentive to share that content with others to view, enter, or vote.

8. Copyright Management

Use Creative Commons to manage usage rights for your content on sites like Flickr.

Sites like Creative Commons protect you, the author, and facilitates liberal sharing of your content.

9. Content Creation as Team Effort

Collaborate from the outset to make your content a team effort.

When people share in the process of content creation, they become invested in it.

10. Branded Watermarks

Tastefully embed a logo or other watermark in the corner of your photos and encourage other content creators to use them in other digital applications.

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