I’m a member of about 11 social networking sites, most of which work in the same way. They also help you get more traffic to your web site or blog if you are a member of them. You might meet some people too.

I’m going to send you to my profile of each of the sites. From there you will be able to jin up as well as see what I’ve done with them. Unabashed self-promotion. What else?

Bloglines is important because you can read other blogs there and put a widget on your blog. Make comments on blogs you read.

Twitter is a simple application mainly for phone contact.

Facebook is a bit different in that you can use many applications there to build up a detailed view of what you have been up to! I’m a bit sick of Facebook and don’t want any more apps!

Flickr is mainly for photos

Squidoo is a place where you can create a web site.

A swicki is a site where you can create as many lens as you like and place the tags on your web site. These lens are on any issue. You can then tag you own web site so it is the first one that the searcher will find for that topic. I get a lot of traffic from these.

Linkedin is more for the professional trying to find old professional colleagues.

Stumbleupon is where you submit sites or blog posts you like so that it is user moderated rather than spidered by a bot. I think we should all use this one a lot more unselfishly unless we want to rely on Google and Yahoo. You should not stumble your own posts

Now ning is my new baby. Here you can add many things: a blog, photos, videos. You can create a group and join groups.

Everyone knows MySpace, but I haven’t bothered developing that one.

Digg is where people submit newsy type stories and like Stumbleupon you should not Digg yourself. I find non-USA sites very difficult to find here. The Australian market is so small that our cyclones are not of interest to the rest of the world.

I haven’t joined the next 2

Workbench is more for the business person.

Mixx is one I don’t know much about. I find I get social networking burn out pretty quickly.

If you join all these and work at them, you should get more traffic to your blog and/or web site. Join me there!