August 2009

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, cats on catnip, and the week in review on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

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This past weekend, I attended the Star Trek Convention at Hilton in Las Vegas with my hubby and my mom. Here are some shots from the convention.

Brent Spiner - Data from Star Trek Next GenerationGeorge Takei - Sulu from Star Trek Original SeriesStarfleet PoodlesStar Trek CostumesCelebrating with Drinks from Fat Tuesdays

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, a Star Wars Dance Off, reviews, and previews for next week’s posts on kikolani.com.

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

Blogging

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StumbleUpon can be a great tool for sharing websites with your friends and also driving traffic to your own website. But with its share to all option, it can also be an easily abused tool which will ultimately drive users bonkers. Here are some big no-no’s when it comes to StumbleUpon etiquette, along with some StumbleUpon tips and resources to make your Stumbling experience rewarding.

StumbleUpon Etiquette Faux Pas

Worried about losing your StumbleUpon friends? Here are some things that lead to people removing StumbleUpon users from their friends list.

  • Sending Too Many Shares

    StumbleUpon users will agree that one of the biggest reasons they will remove you from their friend’s list is because of too many shares. When you are sending people 10 – 15 pages at a time, that is just overdoing it. And if it’s almost all from the same site, it also makes you look like a spammer. The exception to this rule is the people who share a variety (not all from one site) of meaningful, valuable content. I think most people can determine if what they are sending is helpful to everyone they are sending it too.

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