First you will need to sign up at www.sharethis.com to get your publishing key.
Register here ShareThis
Once signed in go to My Account>Dashboard then click on “I’m a publisher show me my publisher options” you will be able to see your publishers key and it will look something like this:
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Next go to the dashboard on your Writers Voices Blog by right clicking open in new window on My Blogs>Name of Blog>Dashboard .
On the left side scroll down to Settings>Share This.
First choose how you want the icons to look.
In the box under Click to modify other widget options put in this code:
<script charset=”utf-8″ type=”text/javascript” src=”http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript”>stLight.options({publisher:”});var st_type=’wordpress3.0′;</script>
Then in the box under Your Publisher Key: put in your publishers key.
Next change automatically add ShareThis to your posts, and automatically add ShareThis to your pages to Yes.
Finally hit Update ShareThis Options.
Each of your blog posts will have buttons that look like this:
This will allow any of your readers to automatically send your post to their Facebook or Twitter pages or allow them to email your post.