I am wanting to participate more in the green social space, but the options are seriously lacking for us. I belong to the green social bookmarking sites listed below, but am not crazy about any of them.

Which do you use? Do you submit stories daily? How do you feel about creating an alliance, in where we hook up, and help each other out. As you know these social networking sites, are useless without a web of friends.

The Green Social Sites I Use

Hugg – Green digg like site owned by TreeHugger.

CON: Ever since their re-design, well it just lacks alot of things. For one, there is no friending feature. Second, no forward this to someone feature. It really is very web .5, not at all web 2.0

PRO: But the good thing about Hugg, is that you only need a handful of votes to make it to front page. This is very doable.

Twitter - Aside from chit chatting on Twitter, one can also make a post go viral on there.

PRO: One can re-tweet someone else’s twit, and therein lies the viral beauty of Twitter. Depending on how many friends one has, this can be pretty good exposure.

CON: The number (and types) of friends you have, ultimately decide the fate of your posts. The more greenies you have, the better. I definitely need more green friends on Twitter, so if you’re a veggie or eco friendly, follow me.

Digg (the environment section)

CON: Making it to the front page here, is like hitting pay dirt. Well, for a day or two.

PRO: Extremely hard to make it to the front page. You need gobs of friends, precious hours of the day voting, commenting, and networking. There is a very specific crowd of people on Digg, they are VERY hard to please, quite jaded, and super savvy about social networks. A great big beast of a challenge! One day i will crack it.

Kirsty – digg like site by and for women

PRO: Great community of ladies who vote up their faves in organic food, eco friendly fashions, green celebs, sustainable home improvement, easy and affordable DIY, and recycled product shopping.

The front page stories here scream “i need help”, “i need help”. Help me with stuff. The ladies at Kirtsy are looking for ways, methods, tips, and tricks to make life easier, better, faster, or more manageable.

CON: There is a clique at Kirtsy, you need to be “one of the girls” to make your storys appear on the front page. Lots of daily participation is required, and again the right type of friends is key.

I like the Kirtsy site, alot of good stories are submitted by members, and shared. I’m a fan.

Reader Questions (+Poll)

Please weigh in below, and tell me, what is your fave green social bookmarking site? Is it a niche and small green site, or one of the big sites, like Digg? Is there a vegetarian/vegan specific social networking site, i should know about? Shoud we form a small group alliance, to help each other out?

Let’s talk.

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