Great work!

Sebastien Rahman
Personal Trainer Toronto

“Don’t try to do everything.
Leave one or two things for God to do too, eh?”

I even outsourced development on a Pligg site once called Fitwire, but it never panned out. See it in all its unfinished glory at http://fitwire.me. I was trying to replicate Health Ranker, was well on the way to success, but couldn’t find time to finish up the site and promote it. Now that Health Ranker is dead I might actually resurrect that. But, I digress…

I still think Facebook is your best option, along with making the most of Twitter. I want to thank you for introducing me to Posterous. I created a new profile today for PS but I’m not sure how much to use it, or even if I know how to make the most of it. Probably publishing workout routines or something, like you do.

Steve

Dropping the ball is 100% accurate.

I have all of these ideas of what I want to do…I just don’t know how to do it

Argghhh

Ning:

I nearly set up a community at ning called Project Shred but with managing Project Swole and some other websites, I just don’t have the time to invest in an entirely separate ning community. You might have that time, but it just seems like a lot of work. Besides that, you will have to sell people on the ning platform concept, which many people know nothing about. I’ve no experience with SocialGo, but the same principles probably apply.

Twitter:

Twitter is what it is. I don’t think you will get the results you are looking for with Twitter. You are looking for a larger scale solution, not just a spastic glorified instant messaging utility. That being said, working with Twitter takes far less time to manage than any of the other solutions, so I think you should use Twitter as much as possible in addition to a better social strategy.

Facebook:

I think Facebook has the most potential. Facebook is a highly active community that is growing faster than any other online community. Start by creating a Facebook group for Health Habits, but you have to offer something of value. Consider looking into having a proprietary Facebook app developed… something users can embed into their own pages… something they will want to use again and again. Think Mafia Wars.

Forums:

You didn’t mention this, but I think forums are completely outdated. This is a lame attempt at building a community. Don’t do it.

Mingle:

I have no experience with Mingle, but it seems like a decent tool. I am going to probably try this out on my blog at Project Swole. That thing needs a complete redesign anyway, so I may integrate Mingle with a redesign. I’d like to see you try Mingle on Health Habits and give us all some feedback.

Videos:

You could also consider learning how to publish your own videos on YouTube, in order to establish a video community. Those videos can also be published to a wide variety of video sites using a (subscription) program called Traffic Geyser, as well as published on Facebook. This is just one of the many things I know I need to do for Project Swole.

If you are anything like me you are starting to feel like you are dropping the ball on keeping up with technology. I don’t have really any offsite communities for Project Swole, and I definitely don’t make the most of my Twitter profile. I think you are on the right track, but it may take some trial and error to find the perfect solution.

Wow!

You just confirmed my belief that I have a lot to learn if I want to make Health Habits the kind of experience I imagine it can be. Hopefully my excitement doesn’t get the best of me.

If you could recommend any resources to help me get up to speed, it would be appreciated.