Hey there guys! Before I give you your link love for the week, I’d like to indulge in a little bit of self-promotion. I’m thrilled and honored to report that Brazen Careerist has named me as one of the nominees in their Top 50 Blog Posts of 2009/Blogger of the Year contest! There are a lot of great writers on the list, and it feels pretty darn good to be among them. If you find me worthy of top honors, however, I’d appreciate your vote! Instructions — and a link to the other nominees — are at the link above but, really, all you have to do is tweet the following:

I’m voting for @stephauteri’s post in the #Brazen Careerist #BestOf 2009 contest: http://bit.ly/UaRsw

Hashtags, URL, and all. (That link, by the way, leads to my winning blog post.) I’d appreciate any Twitter love you can give me! (Plus, your votes enter you for a chance to win a Starbucks gift card. Coffee = Major Win.)

And now that I’ve gotten that out of the way…

• The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s Identifying the Reasons Your Freelance Writing Business Isn’t Growing
• WordCount’s Lessons Learned from a Year on Twitter
• Brazen Careerist’s How I Failed at Networking
• Brazen Careerist’s I Didn’t Do Vacation Right
• Words on the Page’s If It’s December, It Must Be June
• BayNewser’s Top Twitter Trends of 2009
• Mediaite’s The Gawker Decade: How Gawker Media Defined the 2000s
• Mashable’s 10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement
• The Wall Street Journal’s Coping with Criticism
• Open Forum’s Document Collaboration Tools for the Small Business
• Diana Vilibert’s Queefs, Balls, and Why I Write
• NWJobs’ Your Company Holiday Party as a Networking Tool
• Copyblogger’s Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants
• Jezebel’s “Taking a Man’s Name Opened Up a New World”: Why a Blogger Hid Her Gender
• The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s Do Male Bloggers Receive More Respect?
• Design Informer’s The Bare Bones That Every Freelance Contract Should Have
• Freelance Folder’s Freelance Overload: How To Deal with Too Much Work