Forty Three Things
43things.com is a web 2.0, social networking website that I first wrote about on my general marketing blog back in, oh gosh I think it was mid-2005.
Today it is one of my least favorite social networks mainly because the moderators of the busiest ‘things’ (categories) are humans with zero experience, and at the time it seemed zero rules as to which accounts they nuke.
Having provided (back then in their early days, approximately 30,000 words of content and sending hundreds of new users, when I decided to post a link to my site (and I do promise I did it with grace and dignity) a former-fatty, jealous moderator jumped on and deleted my entire account, all my content that I had spent months creating, and my uploaded photos. My profile had a PR5 then, which really hurt.
Is 43things.com any different today? I can’t say I care much which is why the ‘give away’ video as a sample to SocialMarketingStrategy.com’s membership is the walk-through and ideas on social networking and marketing on 43things.com.
Go at your own risk. Promote your content and interact with others knowing that at any moment it could be swiped away, no matter how informative and helpful your posts are to their users…
Here’s the video.
