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Help us change the world for the better! We’re asking our users to help us define what our next phase is going to be. In addition to reading this blog, hopefully you’ve all checked out our alpha site over at TakePart.com, where users can take part (couldn’t resist) in the social action campaigns for Participant’s movies - everything from organizing your community around Darfur Now to learning the facts about immigrant detention from The Visitor.

Now we’d like your opinion on how to take this site to the next level - click here to take our survey and let us know how we can better serve our users and make change in the world. Just in case you need the URL, the survey is located at poll.takepart.com

Thanks for your help! Exciting things to come…

If you’re anything like me, you’re pretty overwhelmed with what seems like an infinite amount of social networking sites. I mean wouldn’t it be much nicer to see all these “friends” rather than clicking through the profiles of all these “friends?” Well in the meantime social networking sites offer a way to stay connected with old friend while also providing opportunity for artists, activists and entrepreneurs to mingle. Social network sites allow users to promote their work, find people to work with, and create communities that share interests, goals, and ideas.

Different social networking sites are geared toward different goals, from sharing good books to sharing plans to save the world to simply just making new friends. Here are just 10 of the hundreds of social networking sites available:

1) MySpace: Probably the most popular of the networking sites, MySpace offers an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. MySpace has greatly helped promote new bands, comedians, and social issues. The site is so popular it’s even become a verb aka “hey totally MySpace me!”

2) Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and

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