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EDIT: As far as a best practice, I would SAPS it :D (FYI, I made that acronym up...) Starter - Create a starter to get the cell count high enough - http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-5.html Aerate - Before pitching, use one of the many available methods to aerate the wort - http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-9-2.html Pitch - When the ...

...so you want to shake the yeast after fermentation is complete and you've racked off the lees? If anyone disagrees here, please weigh in, but I don't think you'll see a difference, and if anything, you're at a slight risk of oxidizing your beer. If you're talking about how the Wyeast pack balloons up after you shake it, that's because you're knocking a ...

In general there is no reason to do this as it just prolongs the settling out of all the yeast. If you had good yeast health going into the bottling phase all should be fine. I don't like to intervene with the process any more than necessary, unless something out of the ordinary occurs. If your bottles don't carb up, or they seem inconsistantly ...

One reason to try and keep the yeast in suspension is that a better contact between yeast and beer helps the yeast to decrease diacetyl. Depending on whether you have had a proper secondary fermentation before bottling, this could be important. I agree however with the security-concerns already mentioned further up.

From commenter Mike S: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-9-2.html Explains why you shake at the beginning. http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-9-3.html Explains why you do not shake after primary.