There is a lot that can be accomplished with them.

Don

I’ve also had a lot of success with MyBlogLog. And it’s really neat to see the faces of people who have recently visited.

What’s been your experience with Sk*rt? Can men join?

Jean,

I hear you. Personally, I’m busy enough that I have to be as pretty efficient with my time or I fall behind.

I, too, am doing much more with the social networking sites than I have before, expanding my reach beyond MyBlogLog.

James,

Great! I love Common Craft’s ability to make some of these hard-to-get ideas simple and easy to understand. And I’m happy to hear it helped you out.

I’m doing the same thing…making my network IDs much more available to people.

So whenever we hand out business cards again, start inviting others to join your network as well.

Yes, I know it’s not important, and a lot of things that bother other people don’t affect me. But it is a warning that we never know what will throw other people off the message we’re trying to send.

But the bottom line is I’m going to do more social networking. Thanks!

StumbleUpon is my second favorite. It is fun to stumble and the traffic boost is really nice.

I am also getting into Linked In and Facebook and trying to find the best way to leverage my time there.

There are also some of the niche “digg-like” sites like sk-rt.com that I have gotten quite a bit of traffic from and created new relationships from.

I’m just now getting into Facebook myself. Like you, I used MyBlogLog a lot in the past. Seems like it’s time to spend more effort there. And also on Linkedin. The del.icio.us community I’m also just now getting into. So much to do…so little time.

Flickr…it’s a service I never really use. I take lots of photos, but I share them on a private ZenPhoto account I set up on my server. I basically just share photos of my family with relatives and close friends. But I do use Flickr all the time to find photos to use on my blog posts.

These were great. Thanks for adding your comments to the conversation.

I use del.icio.us, not necessarily for its more “traditional” online social aspect, but because of the ability to access bookmarks from anywhere, which allows me to show friends and family things I’ve seen online. So it’s still social networking, especially considering the way you wrote about it!

Yeah, I agree. I used MyBlogLog a lot when I first began blogging. I think it, and my commenting, was initially responsible for getting people to my blog. And from that, I’ve made incredible relationships.

Can you track any of your MyBlogLog relationships as leading to business?

LaurenMarie,

Me too. I’m writing on eMoms now because I met Wendy Piersall through social networking – and later in person at SOBCon07 back in May.

And the list goes on from there. I’ve been fortunate enough to build some amazing friendships with a number of bloggers that I wouldn’t have met any other way.

What network(s) do you use most? Why?

Adam,

Thanks, bro.

Facebook – same thing as Linkedin – look for people you know and network with them.

And with MyBlogLog, isn’t it great to see those photos of people who have visited your site. Sometimes I’ll see a photo of someone I know well, but notice they’ve not joined the conversation – so I email ‘em and rib ‘em a little bit. I’ve done this to Ben Yoskovitz a bunch of times.

StumbleUpon…I’m just now getting involved in their community. And you could switch to BonEcho, which is an optimized version of Firefox that I would say is just as quick as Camino – yet allows most of the Firefox extensions to work. I’ve been using it a lot and I think I’m switching from Camino.

I’ve gotten accounts with LinkedIn and Facebook (and MBL, of course), and I’m just starting to explore them.

I found two old college chums on LinkedIn this week, so that’s pretty cool. I’m more drawn to Facebook, but I’m not really sure what to do there. If someone could explain how to really get the most out of FaceBook, I’d love that.

MyBlogLog has drawn the most activity, because it’s right there on my site all the time.

I’m also curious about using StumbleUpon more, but I rarely use Firefox (I’m a Camino user, 99% of the time).