February 2009

This week’s Fetching Friday includes a review about three inspirational sites all rolled up into one and blogging resources. Also, check out previews for next week and related news about the Facebook Pages vs. Networked Blogs and my new Youtube account.

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Here is some experimentation with macro photography on some little flowers around my office.
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In one of my most popular posts, The Blogging Process, I compiled a list of things I do to keep kikolani.com running, including prep work for posts, social media promotion, bookmarking, interacting with readers, and other technical updates. This article focuses specifically on using social networking for blog promotion. Unless your blog is purely personal in nature and only meant to be shared with family and close friends, chances are you want to bring in more readers. Because what is the point of putting your thoughts online if you have no audience? And if your motives for blogging are fiscally driven to create a secondary source of income, or at least to cover the costs domain renewals and hosting services, then it is going to take a lot of traffic to bring in the revenue.


Read more to find out the 9 ways I use social networking to promote my blog, in order of the networks that bring in the most amount of traffic for this site.

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This is my first experimentation with macro photography with our cat Merlin.
Closeup of our cat Merlin

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Twitter Photo Mosaic

by Kristi Hines on February 18, 2009 · 18 comments

I saw this at Potpolitics.com and couldn’t resist making one of my own. Read more to see my Twitter mosaic and find out where to create one of your own to show some love for your Twitter followers.

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