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Monster list of sites from Mashable for 4930 class

Changing list of the most popular social networks created on Ning.

NYT how-to on strategies for effective use of Facebook - includes privacy settings, user lists, tagging options

The community around Wordpress is excellent providing free themes and plugings in nearly any form ans shape to meet your specific needs. Further on you can achieve amazing things if you know a few Wordpress hacks and have learned some basic programming skills in PHP and SQL. Many programmers have put together solutions that address need on a blog that are not offered out of the box in Wordpress and you can easily use these in your own templates. This articles provides a list of some of the most essential wordpress hacks available.

"This course is taught at the University of Florida in the College of Journalism and Communications. It is open to any UF student who has completed JOU3101 or RTV3303 with a grade of C or better. You will find it listed under Journalism with the course number JOU4341."

nice list from College Degree.com

Short Mashable list of ways to use Twitter for freebies

Normally I hate stupid blog lists, but this one is better than most. Brief introductions to different social media trends - useful for class.

"Too often lately it seems journalists are caught publishing faulty information or photos found through Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other social or online media. As a result, several journalists have created lists of tips for fellow journalists learning how to vet online information."

Short list of free writing classes - always good to improve your writing.

"Facebook will grow their service by allowing people to accrue attention in a way they can't currently in the system. People will realize the same benefits they currently do on Twitter…you can actually start to have an audience that is larger than your current friends list. In other words, this will allow members of Facebook to have a much larger reach than they could before…thus giving Facebook a larger reach as well."

2010 list of tools for tracking followers and unfollowers, from Mashable.

Links and suggestions - many can be used to find other media & tech jobs as well.

Screenshots and descriptions of some of the best media Tumblrs circa 2010.