April 2009

Butterflies at the Desert Botanical Gardens

by Kristi Hines on April 28, 2009 · 22 comments

In the final installment of photos from the Desert Botanical Gardens, here are the butterflies inside the butterfly pavilion. I have never seen so many butterflies in one place, and even had the pleasure of one landing on my foot.
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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, #FollowFriday, Facebook Humor

by Kristi Hines on April 24, 2009 · 17 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FollowFriday recommendations, some related Twitter news, and a preview for next week’s posts on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup


Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.

Blogging & Social Media
Bullet Promote your blog without spending money.
Bullet Is the new Diggbar evil?
Bullet Facebook applications for better connectivity
Bullet Comparison of Twitter search services
Bullet 10 stages of a Twitterer

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Chihuly Glass at Desert Botanical Gardens

by Kristi Hines on April 23, 2009 · 23 comments

In the third installment of photos from the Desert Botanical Gardens, here is the Chihuly: Nature of Glass displays that were interspersed with the desert landscape. They created a random, yet beautiful effect in contrast to the surrounding nature.

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Vacation Proofing Blogs and Social Networks

by Kristi Hines on April 21, 2009 · 61 comments

There comes a time in every blogger and social networker’s life where they must step away from their keyboards and mice for an extended period of time. A time when real life will happily consume every moment of many days in a row. And let’s face it, for some of us addicted to the internet, we need this kind of a break to see life beyond the 1680×1050 screen.

For me, this time will begin this coming Friday, the day before my wedding, and for the week long honeymoon to follow. I really cannot begin to describe how excited I am about this time in my life. So along with all the wedding planning, I have been thinking about ways to prepare this site and my social networks for the extended time away. Here are the tasks I have planned to do for kikolani.com and my social networks.

Vacation Proofing the Blog


Auto-Scheduled Posts – beginning with this week’s Fetching Friday, I have auto-scheduled posts to appear throughout my time away.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, #FollowFriday, Twitter News

by Kristi Hines on April 17, 2009 · 23 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FollowFriday recommendations, some related Twitter news, and a preview for next week’s posts on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup


Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.

Blogging
Bullet Anatomy of a Blog Post
Bullet How to get people to keep reading your blog
Bullet Links for new readers and bloggers
Bullet Less SEO tags, more visitors?
Bullet Related posts that make sense

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