Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Volcano Timelapse

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

  • 103 ways to improve your blog in 15 minutes or less – simple little changes that could make a big difference on your blog.
  • Write faster – 12 top tips for freelance writers, bloggers, etc. that want to work less, earn more, and live more!
  • Chris Brogan, A-Listers, and the reality of low self-esteem in blogging – relax, it affects more people than you think.
  • 10 reasons your blog isn’t helping you get jobs – if you’ve been wondering why the offers aren’t rolling in, these tips might help clue you in.
  • What does a blogger do? If you weren’t too sure what keeps bloggers busy, here is a list of the top 38 things.

 


3 Great Social Media Lessons From Ancient History

This is a guest post by Ajay Chavda.

Social media is capable of changing you, your business or your perspective overnight. It is important that we understand the social media before jumping on the social bandwagon. Tweeting, Facebook sharing and video making is only a miniature subset of the entire social ecosystem.

History can teach us a lot about social media. In fact, history has known to be the very supporting pillar of social interaction. Various events spread across the timeline in history can teach us how to successfully derive, build strategy and effectively tackle a business solution.

Every now and then, we see people using history and strategies to tackle various sporting competitions. We can take ancient events to understand and implement a strategy in social media.

Let me give you a few examples which provide useful insights to leverage your output from social media.

 


6 Reasons Why I Like Google+

After using Google+ for a few weeks, I decided to share some of the reasons I like it so much, and hope that it will be an attempt at social networking by Google that will stick around for the long haul.

Google+

1. No automated updates.

Thus far, you can’t feed your Twitter, Facebook, or other updates into your Google+ stream. This means that if you see an update by someone on Google+, they actually made it on the network itself. Less noise, less spam.

 


Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Hi Def Puppy

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

 


7 Common Negative Beliefs That Hold Bloggers Back from World Domination

This is a guest post by Henri Junttila.

You have probably heard many say that blogging is simple, but not easy.

Most of the obstacles to blogging success are in your mind. While this may sound a bit “out there” it’s entirely accurate.

You are responsible for the success you have. There are a lot of negative beliefs and fears that hold bloggers back from achieving true success.

Some may be afraid of guest posting, while others are terrified of creating their own products in fear of what others will think of them.

Today we’ll look at seven of the most common negative belief that hold bloggers back from world domination.

If you feel ready to move on, let’s dive in, shall we?