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Vandelay Website Design has posted the results of its group writing project, Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About Social Media. I submitted my article about Jango the social Internet radio site. If you haven’t read it already please do. Here are some of my favorites from this group writing project.

• Using StumbleUpon To Connect With People In Your Niche - This is a great article for how to use StumbleUpon to network with others in you niche. StumbleUpon has a lot of great features that are not being utilized.

• 5 Easy Ways to Get Bookmarked On Delicious and Become Hot - Mohsin has written a lot of nice tips to get on the front page of Delicious.

• Stop Link Building, Links! = Traffic - SEO 2.0 has written a great article on how StumbleUpon is a better traffic generator than Google, Digg and Reddit.

• Social Media Optimization - Simon Ward from Pingable has written a great article on how to optimize your blog and your articles to be optimized for social media traffic.

• My First Social Media Fame And How You Can Profit From It - This is a fascinating account of how I Am Karthik dot com used second tier social news sites to gain traffic from tier one social sites.

• OpenID to Pave the Way for Web 3.0 - Wayne Smallman has written a great article about OpenID.

A couple of weeks ago I asked the readers of Newest on the Net to submit their favorite articles about StumbleUpon. I would like to thank all of you who have participated. I think that we have created the ultimate list of StumbleUpon articles.

1. Boost Your StumbleUpon Traffic With Outbound Links

2. 5 Essential StumbleUpon Power Points

3. 7 Reasons Why StumbleUpon Traffic is the Best on the Planet

4. Who Else Wants to Learn an Advanced StumbleUpon Secret

5. The Ultimate Guide To Leveraging StumbleUpon

6. Choose Your Audience: The Uncaring Social Media Crowd or Your Loyal Readers?

7. 9 Things Wrong With StumbleUpon

8. StumbleUpon for Computer Dummies

9. A Comprehensive Guide To StumbleUpon

10. Using Social Media Arbitrage to Drive Traffic With StumbleUpon

11. Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon

12. StumbleUpon Addiction for Business Research

13. A Quick Traffic Driving Tip With StumbleUpon

14. A Definitive StumbleUpon Guide: Driving Traffic to Websites

15. How to Use StumbleUpon Like a Pro

16. StumbleUpon the Best Pages on the Web

17. How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog

18. Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon

19. StumbleUpon Traffic Bounce Rate is Amazing

20. Getting Started With StumbleUpon - Using the Toolbar

21. How Important Is StumbleUpon?

22. Rethinking Links

23. Using StumbleUpon to Increase Blog Traffic

24. 5 Top Resources for Stumblers Outside of StumbleUpon

25. 3 StumbleUpon Traffic Myths Debunked

26. StumbleUpon is a Goldmine For Writers

27. The Magic of StumbleUpon’s Recent Reviews Page

28. StumbleUpon Gamed By Paid-To-Stumble Service

29. StumbleUpon Optimization: Leveraging Photo Stumbles for More Traffic

30. How to Increase StumbleUpon Traffic?

31. Building a Large Audience for Your StumbleUpon Account

32. Don’t Buy Traffic, Use StumbleUpon

33. Lingering Taste of StumbleUpon Traffic

34. Is StumbleUpon Traffic Worth Getting?

35. Revealed: 16 Different Personality Types of StumbleUpon Users

36. StumbleUpon Mathematics for Stumblers

37. 25 Reasons You Get Thumbs Up

38. StumbleUpon Launches Stumble-Thru Site Specific Stumbling

39. Before Submitting Your Story Make Sure That…

40. The Secret To Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming

41. Why StumbleUpon Sends More Traffic Than Digg

42. The Why, How and Who of Marketing on StumbleUpon

43. StumbleUpon vs. Digg - Sharing Traffic

44. My StumbleUpon Friend

45. How Important Is StumbleUpon?

46. Centralizing Your Social World

47. How Do You Become A StumbleUpon Power User?

48. StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The king Of Blogging Gobshites

49. Claim Your StumbleUpon Blog Through Technorati

50. StumbleUpon Is Your Trump

51. Making a Power Account On StumbleUpon

52. 8 Reasons I Prefer StumbleUpon

53. StumbleUpon’s Fantastic Ability to Drive Traffic

54. Increasing Your StumbleUpon Audience

55. Beginner’s Guide To StumbleUpon

56. How To Run A Successful StumbleUpon Advertising Account

57. The Secret Features of StumbleUpon

58. Increase Your StumbleUpon Network

59. Writing For StumbleUpon

60. 5000 Stumbles And Counting

61. How to Get StumbledUpon

62. StumbleUpon Visitors Not Identified By Analytics

63. StumbleUpon: Exposure That Lasts

64. How To Set Up A Domino Effect of Traffic

65. The StumbleUpon Experiment

I would like to thank everyone who helped to contribute to this list. So thank you, BloggingBits, Caroline MiddleBrook, Blah Blah Technology, TappingCreativity, Daily Moolah, Empower Women Now, Blogging Fingers, Success For Your Blog, Fabnet Revenue, Digital-Musings.Com, Serverdome.org, Eiliky, Buzzing With Ange, Easy Tech Talk, Marco Richter, Flat World Blog, Blog Research Online, SEO 2.0, and SU Comments.

Through my journeys this week I have come across some amazing social media articles. Here are my ten favorite.

1. Life After Digg: Interview with a Banned Top Digger - Nowsourcing has scooped a great interview with Greg Davies, a former top Digg user who went by the name cGT2099.

2. You Can’t Own the Community Without Understanding Them - Tamar from Techipedia has written a great post stressing the need to familiarize yourself with your social community.

3. Twitter Guide Part 1 - Caroline Middlebrook has written an outstanding guide for using Twitter. This is just part 1 of Caroline’s guide. She is up to 7 now so check out this amazing resource.

4. How to Get on Digg’s Front Page - This is an article from the banned digger’s blog. It is an excellent article for how to get on Digg’s front page.

5. Why Networking Social Beats Social Networking Every Time - Social Media Explorer’s article on how to use social media sites.

6. Delicious and StumbleUpon: A Social Media Primer - SearchEngineWatch’s article is a great guide to both Delicious and StumbleUpon.

7. Become a Del.icio.us Power User - Web Worker Daily’s article provides tips for becoming a Delicious power user. There are tons of great tips for how to use Delicious.

8. Blogging Zoom Has Increased My Traffic - Cashquests has written a great review of the new social news site for bloggers, Blogging Zoom.

9. Blogging Zoom - TheWritersManifestoBlog has also written a great review of Blogging Zoom.

10. Social Bookmarking FAQ - Here is a great guide to social bookmarking written by Social Networking Articles Blog.

Do you write about social media?  Well, if you do, don’t miss out on Vandelay’s Website Design’s group writing project.  Vandelay Website Design is trying to compile a list of great articles about social media.  I know I will be submitting some articles.

- Submissions will be accepted through Friday, November 9th.

- You can submit up to 3 posts per writer (if there are too many I may have to limit how many are published from each person).

- Submissions can be new posts or already existing posts.

- I’ll be categorizing them and publishing the collection a few days after the 9th.

- Posts can cover a specific social media site, a specific aspect of social media, or they can be general in nature.