How I Use sk*rt

In case you're wondering, Day One of the sk*rt launch was fantastic! Some quick stats:
- Over 50 sites added the sk*rt button or wrote a post about sk*rt.
- There are now over 325 registered users.
- And yesterday, there were over 12 pages(!) of new content entered — that's more than 120 new items.

Thank you to everyone who visited sk*rt yesterday to check it out and hopefully play around on it for a bit. If you still haven't given it a try, I hope you will today.

To get you inspired, sk*rt is hosting another contest. The first 30 people who vote for 5 or more items in the "Up-and-Coming" section starting at 1:00 est today will be entered to win 30 Custom Party Invitations from Anna Bella Fine Stationery! You can find the details here. And I'll share a few examples of some of my favorite designs at Anna Bella so you'll see what a great prize this is:





Great prize, right?

Last sk*rt info for today: I want to describe how I personally use sk*rt for those of you who aren't sure how this technology is going to improve their lives.

Because the internet is so unfathomingly big, and growing every day, I sometimes have a sense that I'm not using it as fully or efficiently as possible, that I'm missing something. But sk*rt goes a long way toward addressing that for me.

Since anyone can post something to sk*rt, there's much more of a chance that more items can get posted there. Period. Like yesterday for example. No one person is likely to find and post over 120 cool or interesting things in one day. So the first benefit is that there is just plain more people finding more content and putting it in one place.

And then, sk*rt gets to really shine, because the Users become filters. Twice. First by deciding what should get posted to sk*rt in the first place. And Second, by browsing through all those posted items and voting for the very best, most interesting ones.

Which means that when I check in to the sk*rt main page, it has all kind of really cool content — content that I'm not likely to have found on my own without a huge investment of my time.

So basically, I check in with sk*rt for a just a few minutes every time I sit down at the computer. In the popular section, I see at glance which items are really drawing attention and are worth a deeper look.Then I browse through the items newly added to the Up-and-Coming section and place my votes, maybe leave a few comments. During the rest of my time on the internet (when I check the latest news headlines, read my favorite blogs, etc.) if I happen upon something sk*rt-worthy — like a cool contest, a big sale, a well-written essay, a news piece I'm interested in, a new good blog, etc. — I post it to sk*rt immediately, and know I've done my part to keep people informed.

Sk*rt has been in beta testing for awhile, so I feel like I'm already a veteran user. And during my first visits to sk*rt, I confess, I spent more time — checking out the faqs, trying every link, getting to know the registered users — but now it's more of a quick check-in throughout the day.

Thanks to sk*rt and the awesome sk*rt users, I feel like the chances of me missing something are almost non-existent.