This post is mostly for geeky, but non-dev agency folks.

Many of you have fancy, featureful, but bulky and burdensome reporting and monitoring tools for social media stuff. But sometimes you just want find One. Thing. Fast.

Without bugging the technology team.

And you can!

While lotsa marketing folks may not be programmers, many self-identify as “nerds” and are willing and enthusiastic about using little building blocks that get close to “programming” but stop just short of that.

Let’s begin:

Many of us know how to find Facebook share count:

http://graph.facebook.com/http://yoursite.com

(plugin any URL at the end)

Example with a URL from my Tumblr:

https://graph.facebook.com/http://bluechoochoo.tumblr.com/post/25889624609/uniqlo-firstborn-pinterest

Output:

{
   "id": "http://bluechoochoo.tumblr.com/post/25889624609/uniqlo-firstborn-pinterest",
 "shares": 13
}

But what about LinkedIn? What’s the equivalent quick-n-dirty? (I didn’t know before an hour ago.)

It goes a little something like this:

http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=http://yoursite.com

Example with a URL from my Tumblr:

http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=http://bluechoochoo.tumblr.com/post/25889624609/uniqlo-firstborn-pinterest

Output:

IN.Tags.Share.handleCount({“count”:10,”fCnt”:”10”,”fCntPlusOne”:”11”,”url”:”http:\/\/bluechoochoo.tumblr.com\/post\/25889624609\/uniqlo-firstborn-pinterest”});

That’s it. Pencils down. Just paste those tricks into your address bar, and your wrists will be saved from tons of annoying clicks.