IMO the best way to find new fonts is to use the collective mind of the worlds designers, tap into them by searching on google. Search for something like “professional fonts”. If I want to make sure I find new stuff I would add “professional fonts + 2009″. You can use any modifier (i.e. Grunge, Clean, Sketchy, Script)  and come across a giant pile of blogs hawking their favorite fonts.

Here are a few that I found.

The best web designers and their favorite fonts

21 fonts that shouldn’t be free but are

20 amazing fonts a designer must have

80 beautiful fonts for professional design

50 awesome fonts for professional design

These folks usually find their fonts in font repositories like these. fontsquirrel is probably my favorite.

fontsquirrel

dafont

fonts.com

If you want some amazing fonts that few people have, your going to have to pay for it. Here are 3 of my favorite paid font sites. I can’t stay on these sites for long, because the drool tends to drip and short out my keyboard.

MyFonts.com

Veer

House Industries

Creating your Social Media Radar

Many companies have an interest in what people are saying about them in the social space. There are lots of options when it comes to finding out what people think about you and your business. Half the battle is simply getting an account and participating. The Reputation management tools below can help you build a “social radar system” to see what people are saying about your brand, your competitors, and your industry.

Paid Reputation Management Tools

There are several companies that provide a dashboard that shows insight into what people are saying about your brand. however at several thousand dollars per month they are not feasible for most individuals and small companies.

Listening and management tools

reputationdefender

Radian6
Collective Intellect
Trackur (free trial)

Free Reputation Management Tools

I think that you can get 95% of the information out there at no cost. here are some of the best tools that i have used.

Web

Google Alerts
Keotag

General Social

SocialMention

Forums

Omgili
Boardreader

Micro Blogs

Twingly
HootSuite
Twitter Search

Blogs

BlogPulse
Google Blog Search
Backtype – Blog comment search

Aggregating

You don’t have time to go out and check these resources daily. Get all the buzz delivered to you, most of these services have an RSS/Atom feeds of your search results, take this URL and pull it into FriendFeed, or Yahoo Pipes and then take your “Master Feed” and put it into your iGoogle dashboard. Now you have your own reputation management radar.

Friendfeed
Yahoo Pipes
iGoogle

Hopefully that helps you gain some insight into what people are saying. Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions in the comments.

Other resources:

Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide

300+ Online Reputation Management Resources

34 Online Reputation Management Tools

Online Reputation Management: 16 Free Tools

Reputation Management Tools

This Monday April 13th 2009 I will be presenting as a guest speaker for Gwen Bell at the University of Colorado ATLAS program. My topic will be the relationship between Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Social Media Sites (like Twitter and Digg)  and how to use social media to improve your search engine rankings and drive more traffic to your site. You can watch the presentation live on ustream beginning at 6:00PM (MST) Please feel free to join us.