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Blooming, Kirtsy, spreads her peddles like a flower glistening with the soft morning dew; sun kissed amidst a twenty-first century of rejuvenated revolutionized social media networking –- it’s sweet aroma, uniquely fruitful in side-to-side comparison with its counterparts. Soaking up the spotlight of sunshine’s golden rays, haloed by many loyalists, Kirtsy sections itself to a target audience of diverse woman; within a globally interconnected fast-paced busy society –- made to withstand the test of time, created to gleam with power its iron chain of strong woman who are mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and best friends. Molded around the similar principals of industry giant Digg, similar aspects of platform functionally can be noted at a glance; yet, Kirtsy’s objective presses ahead to meet established sustainability as a social bookmarking network –- created for the resilient female by a group of strong women turned “momentrepreneurs”.

Kristy’s 2007 creation took place during a testosterone dominant Super Bowl Sunday; blogging mothers Gabrielle Blair, Laura Mayes, and Laurie Smithwick collaborated their maternal brainpower between male belches and sweaty celebrated touchdowns of beer and chips – attempting to find a website, in which exposed content that was of interest to them. As this motivated American team diligently searched the Internet over, their searches yielded nothing — as classy determined women, and not quitters, they went above and beyond the call of duty to create feminine socialization and content sharing on a host dubbed Kirsty. Gwen Bell, one of the fifty most powerful women in social media of 2008, was added to Kristy’s as a partner; in 2007 with a list of achievable goals to be of assistance to members needs.

Atypical of counterparts, Kirtsy has main categories that are patterned after feminine interests; Arts and Entertainment, Design and Crafts, Family and Parenting, Fashion and Style, Food and Home, Internet and Technology, Mind and Body, Travel and Leisure, and lastly that of World and Business. With free account activation, with a valid electronic mailing address for verification purposes; Kirtsy’s flowering power is easy to access, with membership one is mere seconds away from the social establishment of interpersonal communication from women all over the world – each richly created with diverse character differences; embraced as such. Simplistically, new web content can be added to the large network; each piece of interest can be customized in its text description by submitting member, discussed by members with each piece via commenting, rated at liked work, and shared on a number of popular social networking mediums — to the right of each category, in blue text, are changing feature picks from Kirtsy’s twenty-five female editors as well as any current guest editors on board.

Operating with the same principals as modern day social media, Kirtsy respects each flowering user by allowing ease-of-access; remarkably noticed in the careful development and structure of a strong website; via spot on positions of further hyperlink navigation. Effortlessly; ladies can navigate though the category tabs, view the most popular by user rating, browse by specific dates and/or pages, add other women to build solid networks, join in the communication by easily seeing the number of comments per submitted bookmark, search for a particular subject or keyword, as well as other onsite navigation options. Top stories, ranked highest by Kirtsy users appear on the homepage; in organized fashion –- the homepage also respectfully holds true for the editor choice selections. At the bottom of each page, options for assistance can be found; as well as information pertaining to the site, details on the various editors and guest editors, information about owners and partners, a choice for site live exploration including top rated users and content clouds, navigation to updated Kirtsy blog, optional sign up for the correlation newletter, as well as other site based information. Distinctive to this medium, give-a-ways/contests are enabled based on a member’s onboard activity; these give-a-ways/contests pertain to topical interest of today’s modernized female and are vast in their modernized distribution of goods or servieces. Lastly, two recommended features; the first allows members to surf the web and at the same time submit newly discovered content to the Kirtsy website via toolbar booklet –- in a single click, with options. This booklet installs without a required download; as users simply drag and drop this to their browser’s toolbar. The second provides a coded badge to share interest in Kirtsy by placing the designated flowering green universal image on website, business site, or personal blog – installing this icon is simplified with respected steps included.

As a professional female, I recommend Kirtsy to every tech savvy female; as the moderated membership and correlated Terms of Use policy allows for a pleasant, polite, and strong interconnected interpersonal experience with many females – who share the same interests. Owners, editors, and members create a osisis that feels homey and warm, with socialization and topical interests for diversified females who are treated as that of equals – with the utmost respect for a five star social media review.

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