You may place the +1 button anywhere on your website, again depending on your web design and personal preferences.

In keeping with Google’s simple yet effective personality, the +1 feature operates silently yet efficiently, building a website’s popularity based on recommendations by social connection

Getting your 'target' member-type to read your articles, click your resource box and join your community web site.

I’ve never seen anyone else mention this, but it’s important to note… It’s important to give Editors what they want as they hold the “keys to the castle.”