I recently received an email from Chuck Kao inviting me to contribute to sussle.org.
I have to admit I had never heard of sussle.org … and I was immediately curious about the site.
Before visiting I investigated a bit online…
This is what I discovered –
- Sussle was launched in August 2012
- Sussle offers scholarships, twice a year, in the amount of $5000.00 each (U.S.)
- Students have a chance to win weekly cash rewards for voting content up (or down)
- Sussle is a community driven encyclopedia – where community members contribute and decide what content is important
- Sussle requires you to have a Facebook Account to participate
- Topics are based on wikipedia
Source: prweb
I then went to sussle.org to take a look around…the first thing I saw was:
Kathryn Vercillo (Crochet Concupiscence) – was the featured member of the week – since I already follow Kathryn’s blog – I immediately felt more comfortable with the site.
On the main page is an explanation about:
and you can browse trending topics:
I decided to take a look at some topics that interest me…
Obviously I searched for: Crochet – and was pleased to see a selection of some interesting posts from Kathryn and other contributors.
Next I searched Genealogy – another of my hobbies – and discovered one post about how the length of my toes apparently represents who my ancestors were…apparently I am an Alien as my toes do not fit into the suggested categories 😉
Tricks to searching?
Be specific…think like an encyclopedia – if you are looking for recipes – search the type of recipe – for example search cookie or muffin…
This site has a lot of potential – because the content is curated by the community – if a group of people decided to jump-on-board and curate content in a topic like Crochet – it could really take off – and it could drive traffic to Crochet blogs and sites – and bloggers know traffic is important!
The success is dependent on the community…those that vote up the posts and those that contribute…
To participate you can add content in the following ways: text, image, link, audio or video
The content listed on the topic pages is by best contributions – you can switch that to show recent contributions using the little box on the right-hand side below the video icon (see above in blue font).
You can also vote posts up, or down – you do that by selecting the up or down arrow below the post (bottom right-hand side of the post) – in this example it is beside the 70 (that is how many people have voted the post ‘up’).
I invite you to take a look at sussle.org and decide for yourself if you would like to participate.
I decided to give it a try – I’ve already found a number of posts that I hadn’t seen before 🙂
Find me here https://sussle.org/me/fb-715705658
Rhondda says
Hi April, I visited them this morning when I was updating my post and it seemed to be working. I was able to access some content and I visited a few pages on their site.
I had been going through old blog posts and updating them on my site so I wanted to be sure it was still a valid service online.
I tried again just now and I am also receiving the error code 22 from Sussle’s site. I’m not sure why this is happening though. I was going to give you the link to their Facebook page so you could contact them but they haven’t posted anything since 2015 – I’m not sure how active the site is anymore. I haven’t used it myself since about 2015 as I started using Instagram around that time instead.
I apologize I really don’t know how to contact anyone there right now to ask what is happening.
All the best,
Rhondda
April says
I have tried to access the site several times today and it does not seem to be working I can keep getting an error code 22 I have done several internet searches trying to get to anywhere that would lead me into sussle. Org any suggestions?