Posts Tagged “30 days”

Progress: 13 sites down, 87 to go

Here’s what I have signed up for so far:

Sites I really use:

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Hellotxt
• Netvibes
• Flickr

Sites that nag me because people I know use them:

• Plaxo
• Digg

Others I have signed up for but haven’t done much with:

• Myspace
• Pownce
• Technorati
• Plurk
• Hi5

Requested private betas but I guess I’m not good enough for them:

• Jaiku
• brightkite

Pending suggestions form friends:

• Bebo
• Virb
• Dogster
• Cork’d
• Trig
• Catster

It is getting late so I’ll have to signup tomorrow. Wish me luck and keep those suggestions coming.

There is a social media site for virtually anything you can imagine. After a recent conversation with limeduck about staking claim to your digital brand, I decided to test his premise Morgan Spurlock style. For the next 30 days, I will explore the impact of living the social media dream.

Here are my rules of engagement:

1. Sign up for as many social media sites as possible.

2. Register for each as Tangyslice, a middle aged man desperately seeking social media coolness.

3. Place a link or badge on my personal blog for each new site I join.

4. Solicit site suggestions from friends and colleagues. I can be reached at tangy [at] tangyslice dot com (or @tangyslice if you prefer Twitter) if you have any suggestions.

5. Blog frequently about the experience.

To make this more than just another inane attempt at online greatness, I will be raising money for my kids’ elementary school through the Brackett School PTA in Arlington MA. I am personally pledging $1 for every registration and hope that others will support my cause on my online fundraising page.

I am setting my goal for 100 sites.

Wish me luck.