My Diet Friends Coming On

Posted on November 7, 2006
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I’ve been posting light for the past few days because I’ve been away but also because I’ve been busy with My Diet Friends. The site is picking up members which is very gratifying. Its purpose is to combine dieting information and support with information about healthy eating. The logic is you really can’t do the former successfully without the latter.

My Diet Friends

The one area visitors/members are having difficulty with is how to submit stories. It seems to me straightforward. There is a Post A New Article link and from there you go to an article writing form. It’s pretty instructive to see people having problems with that. I’m having to do more article posting than I want to while people get used to it. I’m also thinking about letting people do the Netscape or Digg thing - submit summaries of and links to other people’s articles around the web. My great fear with that is it ends up diluting the purpose of the site. User generated content is not so easy after all.

I’ve also got to work out how to interest advertisers and sponsors, so any ideas would be welcome on that side of things. I have a classifieds solution on the back burner but a couple of organisations who see the value of the site would help - but then we’re all in that boat. And of course there is the moment for launching PR. Do it now or wait until there are podcasts up?

Anybody willing and able to review restaurants - focusing on their provision of healthy options, good salads, serious vegetarian options, use of vegetables. Please go to the site. Your diet friends need you.

Right now I guess most people are in pre-Christmas mode and not so interested in healthy eating.

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