It was a shorter week for most of us, thanks to the Labour Day long weekend, but it’s still good to come out the other side largely unscathed and happier than ever to approach yet another weekend. To get you ready for the days ahead, sit back and relax with these five great blog posts that talk about social media, social networking, and other online phenomena.

Enkay Blog starts us off with a simple seven-step tutorial to upgrade your blog to WordPress 2.8.4. Some people can find the WordPress upgrade process to be quite intimidating, but this guide really breaks the process down into digestible chunks. Even WordPress novices can handle this!

Dragon Blogger is just as involved with Twitter as everyone else and he finds that TweetDeck is still one of his favorite ways to interact with the microblogging platform. Looking ahead, he has posted a video demonstration of TweetDeck 3 that runs through some of its new features. Perhaps one of the best new features is stopping you from sending tweets longer than 140 characters. This way, you don’t end up with truncated updates.

Shaun Low was working with a client who felt that his target audience would not at all be interested in blogs and social media, but Shaun reminded them that blogs are even for non-blog people. To the target audience of women over the age of 40, a blog post is just like any other webpage. If they use the Internet, they can find value in a blog, even if they don’t read a blog in the same way that a more tech-savvy person would.

Jonathan Bailey offers a different way for you to record your audio podcasts. Rather than relying on just one person to record everything, have you considered using a double-ender instead? This is where both parties in the conversation record their half and then the two components are assembled together after the fact. This makes for a little more work, but the audio quality is typically a lot better.

Jay Piddy is taking a slightly different approach to his apartment hunt. Rather than searching on his own, he turns to the power of his blog to look for a super place to live in Vancouver. There is a good chance that Jay is also posting something similar on sites like Kijiji and Craigslist, but his blog could reach potential landlords that may not see his ads on other websites. Networking is key!