Kirtsy with your Sk*rt

Well the big news in Women’s Social Media is that Sk*rt has changed its name to Kirtsy

The ladies over at Kirtsy (nee Sk*rt) were looking to give the site a refresh (must be a Spring thing). And one of the areas they decided to update was the name.

Now as any of you who have done this with your own blogs will know, changing the name of your site is a very tricky thing. The technical side is easy — just make a new banner and do a search and replace for all the instances of your old name on the site.

It’s the Internet links that are the tricky things. People have linked to your old site and they will often not think to change those links. So your new site gets starved of all that linky goodness. People who thought they knew where you were on the Net suddenly can’t find you and confusion reigns.

So Kirtsy have asked all their members to let people know about their changes so that they can try to prevent any confusion.

And by the way, if you decide to join and help them spread the word about their name change, you’ll be entered into a giant contest to win over $1000 worth of prizes. Not bad eh?

And what is Kirtsy you ask?

Well Kirtsy is like Digg but for Women.

It covers a huge spectrum of topics but it’s populated by women so the focus is obviously on stuff that is of greater interest to women. It’s actually a cool place for finding interesting things to read.

And like Digg, you can vote them up (or down) to get them to more people’s attention. But unlike Digg you don’t just blindly vote. Your vote is activated when you click on the link to the post from the Kirtsy site. This means that voters actually get to see your post, rather than just clicking on a vote button and never even visiting your site.

I like that. It’s more what voting should be about I think. And I like that you the reader, play a part in what becomes popular.

So if you haven’t checked out Kirtsy why not click over and have a look. And once you’re registered with them, please feel free to give some Kirtsy love to any of the Scraps of Mind articles that you like by clicking on the link at the bottom of the posts. I would certainly appreciate it.