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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.

Basic guide to Twitter, why you'd want to use it, how to use it, etc. Created for businesses so there's case studies and other resources for business.

This is YouTube channel for LinkedIn. You may find some of these videos interesting. In addition to the new "linkedIn grad guide," if you click on "most viewed" videos you will see a video from CommonCraft on LinkedIn. (Yayyyy!!)

"This is the official LinkedIn Channel, featuring videos of users, product demos, feature releases and interviews with key team members from LinkedIn's product, design and engineering teams."

Good short overview of social networks by Mark Glaser - complement Boyd & Ellison article for class

"With more than 500 million people now on Facebook, it's inevitable that you'll be friended by someone you know, but with whom you don't want to share your online life. Once you've accepted them as a friend, how do you avoid them without the awkwardness of unfriending them?"

Overview of some uses of Facebook in journalism, by Leah Betancourt, digital community manager at the Star Tribune.

YouTube help channel  - help videos produced by other YouTube users.

Good, short history of YouTube from Ars Technica - circa 2010

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

Google site w/ good overview of Diigo, uses in education, suggestions for use of Diigo in student learning.

"The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes."