I'm on things like Last FM, Flickr, and Library Thing, which pretty much covers my interest(s) in music, photography and books (not necessarily in that order), and I use Twitter. There actually pretty good ways to promote your blog, provided you're active in the community.

(I'm trying follow BlogHer on Twitter, but Twitter's acting wiggy for me right now.)

Available Light & Five Dollar Radio

www.megavegalicious.com

I just started blogging and so far only belong to Blogher and Blogexplosion. I found out about them by googleling, and I'm not really active for now (I've been concentrating more on building my blog, but I plan to get more involved).
The problem with Blogexplosion is that it's been 2 weeks since I've subscribed my blog and it still hasn't been approved or denied. I sent them several complaints about that but got no reply to any of them. The good part about them is that they offer points for visiting other sites listed there, points that you can use later on to advertise your own site. I have found a few very interesting blogs by doing that (although I can't use any points I've won since my blog's status is still pending...);
anyway, hope they'll fix the problem or I'll have to let them go.

I belong to Facebook and LinkedIn. It is so easy to write on a Wall over on Facebook-- I actually get hits and messages from other Facebook participants. Groups and the discussion boards on FB are another most. I know several Facebookers because of my participation with MyLinkedInPowerForum group on Yahoo!. This is a good group to join if you have not already done so.

I have just started making the time for Facebook. It has a lot of hidden gems.

Regina...
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I just joined Blog Log to create more traffic to my sites. I orginally started with a Yahoo 360 blog, but with all the problems and confusion from all the changes going on there, I decided to create a wordpress blog and eventually replace 360 with that one. I have a myspace page to keep up with some friends, but I don't care for it too much. I don't get any traffic from myspace at this point. I joined this site for the reading! But I'm hesitant to join too many groups because I don't want to spend my days maintaining a lot of sites. I've found that if I don't visit a site on a regular basis and update, people stop visiting...for obvious reasons! One of the more effective ways I've found to bring people to my pages is to find blogs I really like and just comment on their blogs. Then people visit my blog, and if they really like it, they put it on their blogroll....

It's true - to get consistent traffic you need to make a connection to other people. The way to do that is to become a part of their community and then they'll become a part of yours. It takes time and effort but it is well worth it - not just in terms of traffic, but in relationships as well.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Fast Times @ Homeschool High & Flamingo House Happenings

I just joined blogher today and have a site to recommend: tbd.com, an online hangout for people over 40. Frank, lively online discussions (everything from sex to politics) have given me ideas for both blog posts and magazine articles. My profile page lists my blog, and I've had a trickle of visitors from tbd (these people would never have found me otherwise). To get more traffic from the site, I'd either have to post there much more frequently (which would pull me away from my own site and other writing) or promote myself more aggressively. I've been pretty low key so far. The site works because people behave like their real selves, not like marketers. If you're part of the target demographic, check it out. Warning: you might get hooked.

I'm on facebook, but don't really use it much. It takes too long too load for one, and there are too many annoying applications (especially if you're friends with your 18 year old daughter!). I have started interacting a bit on stumble upon. From what I've read, this can be a nice and active community. I've actually "met" a lot of helpful people on blogcatalog as well.

"Friend" me at stumble upon: http://witchqueen13.stumbleupon.com

Island Wench
http://islandwench.blogspot.com
celebrating the joy of living on an island through spiritual crafts, creative living and other soul transformational activities

I am fan of MyBlogLog and Propeller.com they have a good system. With Mybloglog we could now the details of the traffic which come to my site, and Propeller give me a good traffic.

Goonie

Baby First Year 

I get traffic through BlogCatalog. I belong to Digg and StumbleUpon but don't use them as well or effectively as I should. I Sutmble others but I find it difficult to find and Friend the blogs I read on a regular basis. (If you want to friend me on StumbleUpon I'm at  http://condoblues.stumbleupon.com/inbox/).

There's also a time management issue with belonging and using so many social networking sites. How do you manage reading, posting, commenting, and friending on more than on site while finding the time to write your own blog, work, and do non computer activities in the real world? 

Why don't decorating and DIY projects always work out like they do on TV?  Condo Blues http://condo-blues.blogspot.com/

The only two I use are Entrecard, and Social Spark.  Social Spark I dont think helps to generate traffic, but I can take paid assignments to blog about on my blog.  Entrecard, on the other hand I love.  Its kind of like having a credit card for traffic.  After you sign up, verify, add your blog or blogs, you drop your entrecard on other users blogs.  They in turn drop their card on your blog.  Some actually even read your material, and leave comments.  You save up your entrecard points, and then you can cash them in to advertise your blog on their website.  It is actually pretty great.  I have tried some of the others, and honestly I just dont have the time for all that socializing. 

Does anyone have any experience with www.kirtsy.com? I signed up, but I'm new to social networking, so I was a little confused. I heard it was a good site for women, but I posted a couple of articles and didn't get any hits. 

Patricia Wooster

www.projectorganiceating.com

www.lifeintheburb.com

www.projectgreengirl.com

Any one is there who can tell me about some games sites. Please help me out.

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james

widecircles

Hi,

I am a newbie to this world of blogging, and I recently discovered Plurk.

www.plurk,com.

I think you can search for me under Schrot

I like the visual aspect of it. I am not sure it is very widely used in the US. I found it via an Australian blog so maybe it is popular there. It is kinda cool.

Liz

 come on, it's gonna be fun ... www.queenofwonder.com

I found 20somethingbloggers for those of us in our 20's...I'm also on technarati and places like that..

 http://mycheckedbaggage.blogspot.com/

I've found using both of these networks helps in finding people with common interests, webmasters who are interested in cross promoting each others' sites, and people willing to vote for article submissions. Certainly doesn't hurt traffic volume when you submit interesting and topical articles there.

     My 2 Cents

      Merrill