Picture Tutorial: StumbleUponStumbleUpon is a fun and helpful website that allows you to browse the internet with just a click of a mouse. Browsing through StumbleUpon allows them to track your interests and favorite articles, and suggest news articles, videos, or other online media that would be of interest to you. Creating a separate su.pr account will allow you to add your own links to the stumbleupon database, allowing access to millions of daily users. This tutorial will show you how to use StumbleUpon and su.pr.

Step 1: Go to www.StumbleUpon.com, and create an account. You can create an account using Facebook, allowing links between both sites and giv-ing you connections to your friends from Facebook that also use StumbleUpon.

Step 2: Once you log in, click settings to set some of your interests into the Stum-bleUpon system. This helps StumbleUpon find media you’ll be interested in.

Step 3: When in the settings tab, go to manage interests. Check off all the topics you are interested in. Once you’re finished, click save interests and head back to your home page.

Step 4: You’re ready to Stumble! On your homepage, click the large stumble button and you’ll get right started. You’ll be taken to your first article, which you can either say you like or dislike, share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or via e-mail, comment, or continue to stumble. If you click the stumble button, you will be directed away from this webpage, and brought to another that relates to your interests. Over time, StumbleUpon will grow to understand your interests, as you flip through pages and decide which are your favorites.

Step 5: Under the “Stumblers” Tab on your homepage, you can check out more suggestions on what users you can follow, find out other visitors that have looked at your favorites, or recent sites you’ve looked it. You can follow user’s favorites, and other users can fol-low your’s. This is a great tool if other friends, family, or co-workers are on StumbleUpon, as well.

Step 6: The Discover tab allows you to look up recommended sites for you without stumbling. While not as much fun, it makes looking for a specific type of article easier. You can also tailor your stumbles on your homepage, by stumbling only news, certain websites, certain followers, photos or videos.

Step 7: After you become familiar with StumbleUpon, login to su.pr by using your Stumble-Upon account.

Step 8: Su.pr works similarly to HootSuite, in that you can tweet and update your facebook sta-tus from it. You can also use it to just shorten links, and by doing so, register them into the StumbleUpon sys-tem. If you copy and paste a link into the message box, press the just shorten button, and your link will register.

Step 9: You can check quick statistics of the links you’ve posted by looking at your su.pr history on the su.pr homepage. Each link you’ve made will show you how many users have clicked on the link you posted directly from you (in this example, 50), how many users have clicked on this link from StumbleUpon.com (in this example +2502), retweets, and reviews. You can also view more statistics by clicking the “view stats” button, and can find out overall statistics on your side-bar. The overall statistics will tell you how many followers you have on a specific account (twitter or facebook), how many clicks your links have recieved overall, and the suggested posting time for your clicks. Click on these invidually to find out more statistics.