These are exciting times online.  New opportunities are opening up for the social and the serious.  A new site -

HerProBlog.com is coming up soon for the professional blogging women with tips and discussions.  You can sign up for an email subscription now – don’t miss out on the opening!  Join the Women Bloggers Group now which is the social network for HerProBlog.com.  This is the opportunity to get in on the ground floor.  New members are being added daily.  And even though it is a women’s group, men are not banned.

The Women Bloggers Group is powered by Crowdvine.  You can interface with facebook to add your friends, and you can add your twitter stream.  Put your social bookmarking site or photo site to rss them.  And pick your favorite blog (we all have more than one, right  – OK, then put your one blog on it) to subscribe to.

Once you are settled in, go to HerProBlog.com and sign up for that subscription.  See ya’ll there!

Have you heard of Plurk?  I did and I joined.  It is really fun.  It is different enough to be confusing when you first join.  Start plurking, and you will see how fun it is!  A lot of tweeters, diggers, and stumblers are showing up, along with the blogcatalog members.

What makes plurk different is the time line.  It runs horizontally, appearing on a time line defined in 12 hour or 24 hour times.  The days are marked also.  The discussions can be read by clicking on a plurk.  The responses drop down with a space for you to add a plurk – with many fun emotions.  In fact, the more you plurk (without spamming) and the more friends you acquire, the more emotions and abilities you achieve.

If that isn’t enough, you can follow a person’s plurks without being their ‘friend’.  Thus you can join in the discussions and meet more people.  There is a link box on the left that shows how many response and plurks have been added since you last looked.  If you click on the ‘unread only’ you can find all the plurks with new responses.  Then you can click on mark all as read when you have viewed the ones you are interested in.

There is also a site that has a ‘Karma’ watcher, a plurktionary, and other fun things.  The plurk IM is non-functional at the moment until the bugs are worked out.  Remember, this is a new site.

Are you ready to join yet?  You don’t have to be a blogger or entrepreneur to join.

Help me get my dancing banana and my  guy hitting the other with a chair.  Click on this link and join me at plurk. You have nothing to lose, and you can be my plurk buddy!