Looking for kitchen inspiration? Then go to http://cookeatshare.com/ , the exclusive social networking site for cooks. If not, get a 'Twecipe' by sending an @ reply with the ingredients you have on hand in your kitchen to @twecipe on twitter and receive menu suggestion !.

Australians sure know how to socialise. If you haven't found the right social networking site for your dog, try the Canine Social networking site 'dogtree' ( http://www.dogtree.com.au/ )

Charity begins at home? No, not anymore. Charitable social networks such as http://www.yourcause.com/default.aspx%20 , http://www.razoo.com/ allows people to raise funds for causes and charities of their choice online.

Go to the virtual coffee shop http://www.meetup.com/everywhere/ and talk about anything that needs sorting out' from global warming to Oprah and more.

'Love thy neighbour' and get to know them better by joining your local community on https://nextdoor.com/ or use http://blockboard.org/ to find your 'hood'.

Worried about student loans, increasing tuition fees? Thanks to Open Courseware (Open education resources) under Creative Commons (CC) license, future of free education is closer than we think. Number of universities including MIT(http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm),Yale, Stanford, OU UK are offering course material free of charge to students.

However, this year’s ‘best school of the future’ award goes to United Nations ‘University of the People’. UN’s Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID) founded the University, a non-profit organization offering 'higher education opportunities to people who generally could not afford it by leveraging social media technologies and ideas.'

If that is not enough, here is where to look for free text books to go with your 'open college'.

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Happy Networking !!