Follow the Leader

I have great admiration and respect for my friend and colleague Don Spencer who has a wonderful Blog that I highly recommend.

Because of a visit to his blog, I felt a little like I just MUST keep up with the Joneses…in this case Don.

He uses a tool called Snap Shots to put little pop up windows of screen shots associated with links he puts into his blogs. I thought this was just so cool – I had to do it to.

Here is an excerpt from the Snap Shots site that on what they are and how they work.

Remember – this is only a cool tool I thought might be handy to give my readers an idea of what a site looks like before deciding to follow my links. You may choose to use Snap Shots or not – below are the very user friendly instructions on working with Snap Shots on my site and any other site that uses this neat little tool.

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.