Social media websites have become mega-popular in the past few years, and can be very useful for networking with people who share your interests or are in your profession. The Social Media group writing project had some terrific articles among a long list, so I categorized them for you here below.

Good Reads for Job Seekers

Using StumbleUpon to Connect With People in Your Niche by Caroline Middlebrook

What You Can Learn from My First Social Media Success Story by Karthik

Use your avatar to build brand awareness by David Airey

8 Creative Ways to Use Social Media for Your Job Search by Jacob Share

You’ll Learn Something Here Too

Here’s what happens when you get on the front page of Digg by David Airey (funny)

5 easy ways to get bookmarked on delicious and become hot by Mohsin

Cause-Based Viral Marketing: How Your Nonprofit Can Maximize Social Networking Tools by Maya Norton

Why Networking Socially Beats Social Networking Every Time by Jason Falls

Introduction to Social Media and Social Media Marketing by Tibi Puiu

Interviews with Peopleized by Adam Donkus

The Rest

StumbleUpon:

Mob vs Smart Mob: 7 Reasons Why StumbleUpon Traffic Is the Best on the Planet by Tad Chef

Blog Resources Online: Increase Traffic With StumbleUpon by Neena

My Love Story With StumbleUpon by Wayne Liew

17 POWER Tips For StumbleUpon Beginners by Dr. Mani

Twitter:

Big Juicy Twitter Guide by Caroline Middlebrook

Facebook:

Facebook’s ad weakness: our “friends” are not our friends by Dave Walker

Why Aren’t You On Facebook Yet, Grampy? by Jon

10 Articles to Get You Started With Facebook by Jon

Second Life:

Deconstructing Second Life by Jason Falls

Niche Social Media:

Why I Love Sphinn by Marco Richter

Jango: Putting the Social Into Internet Radio by Fred

FitFiend: Social Networking For Fitness Enthusiasts by Shannon Nelson

IQONS: Social Networking For The Fashion Industry by Shannon Nelson

Photographers Have A Social Networking With Dripbook.com by Shannon Nelson

General Social Media:

Choose Your Audience: The Uncaring Social Media Crowd Or Your Loyal Readers? by Mohsin

Stop Link Building, Links != Traffic by Tad Chef

The Real Rules of Social Media Marketing Unmasked! by Tad Chef

Social Bookmarking v Story Submission for Self Promotion by Caroline Middlebrook

78+ Super Web 2.0 Marketing Tools by S. Kumar

Social Media Sites Are Not About Traffic by YC

Social Media Optimization by Simon Ward

Social Media Networks: Entering the Third Dimension of Connectivity with Web 2.0 by Maya Norton

3 Common Mistakes in Using Listservs: Maximizing Time, Value, and Energy Among Users by Maya Norton

What is social media? by Gary Moyle

Beginners guide to Social Media by Peter Newsome

Link Building – What they don’t tell you by Peter Newsome

7 Reasons to Embrace Social Media by Peter Newsome

Why Advertising Will Not Win The Battle Of Social Media by Jason Falls

Gaming The System Or Web 2.1? by AdTracker

Social Networks – Have the eggs become the chicken? by Jamie Oastler

The One and Only Rule for Social Media Marketing by Dave Walker

Is SEO dead? Search traffic vs. social media traffic by Dave Walker

If Content is King in SEO, It Rules The Universe in SMM! by Jeannette Cezanne

How to Be Social by Dustin Coates

Did you know that some social media users won’t call you a spammer? by Karen Zara

OpenID to pave way for Web 3.0? by Wayne Smallman

Social Networks: immersive 3D worlds by Wayne Smallman

Do You have a list of your Networks page? by Adam Donkus

Resources for Submitting to Social Networking News Sites by Elmer Thomas

Build Your Own Social News Site With Free Tools by Elmer Thomas

Social News Networking Comment Trackers by Elmer Thomas

Using Social Media in a Product Launch by Jim Tobin

Did Target Steal Our Social Media Marketing Playbook? By Jim Tobin

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--Jacob Share

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