We’ve been looking into more avenues to reach new customers, designers, and creative people around the world, so we thought we’d post a little list of our findings in case you were looking for just such a thing. We’ve found all of these sites to be cool places to meet new clients and share ideas.
http://graphicdesignnetwork.ning.com/ – The Facebook for designers! Post blogs, portfolios and more. The coolest thing about this network is the people you’ll meet by joining. It’s free. Do it.
http://www.coroflot.com/ – Coroflot is a cool place to drum up new business. Post a portfolio as well as browse design job listings.
http://www.flickr.com/ – Flickr is here because not only is it a great place to host a portfolio, but it is also useful for porting content over to, say, a blog on WordPress. Many social sites can now link directly to Flickr which makes it important that you are plugged in.
http://www.behance.net/ – Great place to not only host (yet again) a portfolio, but also find collaborators.
http://www.designrelated.com/ – These guys have all the typical stuff like portfolios, blogs, and jobs, but they also have an “inspiration” section which helps pull us out of the ruts we get into sometimes. Worth checking out.
http://www.myspace.com/ and http://www.facebook.com/ – If you don’t know about these sites yet, you have a lot of catching up to do 
It may seem a little redundant to post, post and re-post portfolios to all these different sites, but the idea here is to be in front of as many people as possible, right? So spend the two or three hours it takes to create accounts, upload photos, and cruise around the sites a bit. Your creative process, as well as your client list, will benefit
-Ryan
