It’s all about your conversation when it comes to social networking and part of your conversation is in what you share. Amplify makes sharing easier.

Amplify allows you to clip and share excerpts with others from web pages you find interesting. It supports autoposting to Twitter (even on mulitple accounts), Facebook (for Profiles and Pages), WordPress, Flickr, Google Buzz (and a bunch more places) right from your browser or smartphone (or you can post via email). You can even schedule posts!

And it keeps a searchable record of what you share in your own customizable “Amplog.”

You can set it up to use bit.ly as your automatic URL shortener.

I just set up my account so I thought I’d share the process on this Tutorial Tuesday post.

Account Signup & Install Extension

You can sign up for your account using your Facebook or Twitter account or by visiting Amplify.

Once your account is created, simply drag the Amplify It button to your bookmarks bar & install the Firefox addon by clicking the firefox add-on button as shown below.

You may be required to restart Firefox to complete the installation, but you can edit your settings prior to doing so.

Connect  Your Social Networking Sites

While you’re in your Amplify account, you can go ahead and connect it with Twitter, Facebook and other places you will want to post your snipped content to. To do this, click the settings link at the top of the page.

Next click Autopost as shown in the image below.

Select the social networking site you want to connect with and and click the “Link Amplify with a __ account” link. We’re connecting with Twitter in the example below.

You’ll be taken to a page where you’ll enter your login details for Twitter.  Then click allow.

Once you are redirected back to Amplify, click Save Changes. Now you can automatically post your snips to Twitter.

From your account settings area, you can do many other things such as get a dedicated amplify email to post by email, enable bit.ly so you can post short URLs, schedule posts, design your amplify page and more.

Using the Amplify Plugin

Once you’ve installed the plugin, you’ll have an icon on your navigation bar as shown here:

Before you begin to browse or at any time when you’re viewing a web page and find something you’d like to snip and share, click the icon.

Next, highlight the words you want to snip and share. A popup will open where you can select how you want to share the information. We’ll go through each one below.

Clip This Page: Clicking this option will give you a yellow box that you can drag around the information you want to clip. Once you’ve selected your content, click the large yellow “click here when done clipping” button at the top of the page as shown below.

Share This URL: This option will take you to your Amplify account where you can share the article title, link and your own thoughts on the information. Just fill in the details, choose whether or not you want to link to the source URL or your Amplify page URL and click Amplify It.

Write a Post: Clicking “Write a Post” will take you to your Amplify account where you can make a post on your Amplify page. Just fill in a title, the body of your post and click Amplify It.

Microblog: This option will automatically log you in to your Amplify account where you can post a short, 1000 character message. As the image below shows you have options to schedule or autopost your message to your Twitter and other social media pages. Once you’ve made your selection, click the Amplify It button.

That’s it! Now you can quickly and easily snip and comment on content you find around the net.