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AddThis Election 2012

As I've mentioned many times, we love exploring data at AddThis. It drives our design work, and provides the foundation for our business. Today we were excited to release a new election 2012 compilation page today highlighting the ongoing data analysis we're doing to explore the role of social media in the race for the White House. We wanted to launch this compilation in time for tonight's first debate – so be sure to check back tomorrow for follow-up analysis.

In the meantime, check out the example above showing a breakdown by county where either President Obama or Senator Romney received the most social mentions yesterday, October 2nd. There will be much more to explore over the next month as we get closer to November 6th. Fascinating stuff.

Kudos to the whole team – Jeff Wong, Foo, Steve Piercy, and particularly Greg Cypes who is developing our data visualizations.

Visit the AddThis Election 2012 page

NoVA UX Meetup: Agile UX

Last night we held our first full NoVA UX meetup at AddThis HQ to discuss Agile UX. We were fortunate to be joined by a panel of ux and development pros:

• Kit Unger, who manages user experience at Three Pillar Global
• Kevin Doyle, a UX lead at Living Social
• Dylan Greene, a dev lead at OPower and co-founder of Doodle or Die!
• Nick Whitmoyer, founder of Whitmoyer and organizer of Refresh DC

Our panel fielded questions about how Agile and Agile UX works, their experiences managing creative projects in their organizations, and how Agile UX can be applied to consultancy work. We were glad to see a strong turnout of around 40 other UX, visual design and development professionals, and look forward to seeing everyone again on October 24th, when we'll be talking about responsive design.

New AddThis sharing today!

We're incredibly excited to roll out a new sharing experience today for AddThis. We've been working on this update for a long time, and there are a bunch of new features and subtle design enhancements that we hope you'll find make sharing easier and more fun than ever before.

The most obvious change is our new vertical menu. One of our top goals at AddThis is to make sharing as fast and simple as possible. While other tools become more complex, we thought it was important to simplify.

Even better, now you and your site's visitors can connect Twitter and Facebook accounts, and share even faster from those services:

Love Pinterest? We do too. AddThis offers complete Pinterest support so your site's pictures can realize their social potential:

Read more about these features over at the AddThis blog.  Or, give the new AddThis sharing experience a try by sharing this blog post below. As always, we'd love to hear what you think – and thanks for using AddThis!

Moving into new AddThis headquarters

Yesterday was the big reveal of the new AddThis HQ for the whole VA team. Everyone's excited to start working in our new space on Monday... here're some pics from yesterday's tour. Kudos to Jeff, Robert, Lorri, Carol, Will and all the other folks who worked so hard to create an awesome space for AddThis to continue to grow.

Entry:

Conference room:

Soon to be our wall of network data:

Working area:

Cafe (also the new home of the NoVA UX meetups):

Cafe serving area, with our CTO Stewart Allen first in line for lunch...: