This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, an effective viral video, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• Online content theft – find out if your content is being stolen
• Headline writing techniques that work
• Blog trolls
• How to match 10 key success metrics to your blogging strategy
• How to keep readers coming back to your blog

Business / Finance

• Advertising and marketing storytelling strategy for brand positioning
• Why we no longer recommend Yelp for businesses
• Can you name 10 of your customers’ customers?
• Your personal brand is not about you
• Top small business blogs and how to create a successful company blog

Graphic / Web Design

• 45 creative resumes to seize attention
• 102 respected designers you should follow on Twitter
• 50 clever and creative business cards
• 70 fresh and inspirational single page website designs

Make Money Online

• Another way to make money online with Mahalo
• Top 3 ways to monetize your blog

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• Seeking wisdom outside the box
• How to keep your mind virus free
• 10 ways to unclutter your mind
• Cultivate happiness by getting rid of weeds in your life
• How to make a quantum leap

Photography / Digital Art

• 30 marvelous nighttime photographs
• Beautiful nature photography
• Showcase of excellentunderwater photography
• 5 animal photography tips to get funny and creative pictures

Search Engines / SEO

• What’s next for SEO?
• Lessons on understanding and love
• New linkspam algorithm for Google
• How to get the maximum SEO benefit from guest blogging
• Top 15 SEO extensions for Joomla CMS

Social Media

• 35 great social media infographics
• 16 Facebook applications to boost fan page popularity
• Jobs that will be replaced by social media
• 5 ways to leverage Foursquare for business
• Everything you need to know about LinkedIn

Tech / Security

• Protect yourself from phishing attacks
• Money saving Firefox extensions
• Belarc – excellent PC maintenance utility

WordPress

• Top 10 ways to make your blog sociable
• 7 must have WordPress plugins for every blog
• 20 best WordPress plugins for image handling
• 30 best WordPress plugins for blog administrators
• 5 Twitter themes for WordPress

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Get ready for something a little different next week. I’m giving the people bloggers despise the most an open forum to defend themselves! If you can’t guess who I’m talking about, then check back on Monday for the answers…

This Too Shall Pass

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1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Busy Week in Review, & Funny Trekkie Video
2. Fetching Friday – Resources, #FollowFriday, The Big 30 & A Literal Music Video
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Happiest Turtle
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Another Day at the Office & Swine Flu

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a journey through Boliva, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• 5 reasons to guest post
• Optimize a single post for SEO on your blog
• Successful guest posting strategy
• Perception is important to your blogging career
• DIY blog post graphics for non designers

Business / Finance

• Stop thinking you’re going to fail just because someone says you should
• 4 life saving tips for small businesses
• Web analytics reporting for small businesses
• Do you know your customers enough to be a social media hit
• Top 5 ways to market your business with LinkedIn

Graphic / Web Design

• 50 cartoon character design tutorials
• 80 extreme advertisements that will challenge your mind
• 11 essential tips for designers
• eCommerce design resources – the ultimate roundup

Make Money Online

• Optimize that conversion rate before it’s too late
• Unlock your marketing genius to make money online
• QueryAds – the Adsense alternative
• Google Adsense publishers say earnings are down
• 5 landing page tips to boost conversion rates

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• Unchain yourself from conventional thinking myths
• 7 personal development lessons – Kung Fu panda style
• What does balance mean to you – the work life balance
• How to be selfish in a good way
• 5 methods to cut down negative thinking

Photography / Digital Art

• Beautiful black and white photography of animals
• 25 breathtaking underwater photographs
• Create tilt shift miniature effect in Photoshop
• 35 stunning examples of HDR photography
• Black and white long exposure photography

Search Engines / SEO

• SEO Chrome extension – comprehensive view of page and domain data
• How Google’s algorithm rules the web
• Infographic – the Google story
• Link building vs. link marketing
• 3 steps to optimizing content for long tail keywords

Social Media

• Multiple personality social media
• Social media impact of Google Buzz
• Art of communicating in social networks
• 10 awesome social media presentations by thought leaders in the industry
• How to use Google Analytics on your Facebook fan page

Tech / Security

• Windows Phone 7 series WP7S overview
• Firefox 3.6 exploit could be causing browser crashes
• 3 best Twitter apps for Droid
• 10 Google chrome extensions for web developers
• PCs, Macs, and security

WordPress

• 12 amazing BuddyPress themes and getting started guides
• How to make the sidebar list dynamic in Thesis
• 14 Flickr plugins for WordPress
• 60 of the latest high quality free WordPress themes

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Next week, I’ll be changing gears a bit to take a look at creating productive to do lists with some social media examples, plus a guest post TBD.

Salar de Uyuni, Boliva

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1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Mean Kitty
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Cats on Catnip
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & a Cute Cat Commercial
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & DoFollow Resources

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a video from TED on creativity, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• Stop launching blogs and start contributing to them
• KeywordLuv – How it benefits us all
• 6 tips to get traffic to new blogs
• How to enhance your blog comments – create a conversation
• Overcome creativity blocks with these offline changes

Business / Finance

• Marketing or advertising your business
• Small business marketing trends for 2010
• Blogging for business basics
• Hiring an accountant or Turbo Tax to file your taxes
• Tips to start a small business blog

Graphic / Web Design

• 50 restaurant and recipe web designs
• Showcase of city tourism websites
• Email newsletter design – guidelines and examples
• 50 fresh design blogs you should be reading

Make Money Online

• The ultimate guide to PPC affiliate marketing
• 5 money making tips for newbies
• Is automated blogging a true business opportunity?
• Bloggers guide to legal, accounting, and FTC guidelines
• 10 questions to learn your niche
• Are there any writing for money sites worth joining?

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• How to use your subconscious to change your life
• How enthusiasm was sabotaging my results
• 8 helpful ways to deal with critical people
• Introvert friends – the perfect fit
• 7 ways to improve your social life

Photography / Digital Art

• 35 spectacular action photographs
• 20 long exposure photography examples
• Photography on the Earth’s Poles – 50 beautiful examples
• Beautiful wildlife photography

Search Engines / SEO

• Pull your SEO together with Scribe
• Link stealing – how to get webmasters to thank you for a link request
• SEO cheat sheets and tools
• Nifty guide to reviews and local search
• Blog links that bring traffic not trouble

Social Media

• 39 social media tools I use today
• Brand, market and manage Twitter with MarketMe Tweet
• 7 reasons not to put all your eggs in the Twitter basket
• 4 steps for managing social media attention
• Social media age distribution stats

Tech / Security

• Why you should turn off Microsoft auto updates
• Email sanity
• 10 things I hate about my Motorola Droid
• 10 Chrome extensions to double productivity

WordPress

• How to integrate Google Buzz into a WordPress blog
• WordPress SEO tips and tricks
• Creating a quality WordPress theme – 12 points to consider
• 3 SEO friendly plugins to display featured posts
• WordPress 2.9.2 released

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Next week, I have an interesting guest post about how bloggers can use online marketing tips to make money online as well as an article on how to make sure people know what you are about when they find you online.

On Creativity

I saw a post on the TED experience and was reminded of this video I saw with Amy Tan speaking about creativity. Just something to open your minds and creative spirits.

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Look What You’ve Missed:
The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Mean Kitty
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Happiest Turtle
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & a Cute Cat Commercial
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Slap Chop Remix

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, and the Mean Kitty Song.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• 6 pillars of a successful blog
• 14 lessons learned from one of the world’s highest paid copywriters
• Creating an articles concept map
• Google Page Rank, links, and guest blogging
• Accepting guest posts – blog cardinal rules

Business / Finance

• Why worrying may be good for your career
• The real point of marketing
• 25 practical Internet marketing ideas for small business

Graphic / Web Design

• 10 questions to ask before building a website
• 27 trendy, unique website header designs
• Tips for web designers from an Internet marketer’s perspective
• A quick look at mobile web design
• 3 golden rules of site redesigns

Make Money Online

• 7 best methods of list building
• How Twitter can earn you some cash
• Best paying Google Adsense words
• 9 tricks I used to triple Adsense earning in 30 days
• Successful strategies for selling ad space on low traffic websites

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• What love is not
• Are you creating what you don’t want?
• 50 ways to get over failure
• Your creativity is inside you
• How to manage your life device drivers

Photography / Digital Art

• 40 brilliant, creative examples of toy figure photography
• A showcase of stunning infrared photos
• 40 aggressive examples of wave photography
• Out of this world coral photography
• 30 unbelievable and brilliant photographs

Search Engines / SEO

• Small business SEO advantages
• Link building strategies checklist
• 5 powerful ways to use Google Reader feed creation tool for SEO
• 30 SEO bookmarklets to save you time
• 15 minute SEO audit – a sample from SEO Secrets

Social Media

• 23 reasons you should not fear social media
• Google Buzz makes Gmail social
• 6 status update schedulers for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
• What does it take to get a million Twitter followers?
• 6 powerful social media persuasion techniques

Tech / Security

• Cool tools for the location independent
• Microsoft Security Updates cause blue screen of death
• 7 awesome ideas to use Gmail filters for SEO tasks

WordPress

• Avoid getting banned from ping services for updating WordPress too frequently
• Top e-commerce solutions for WordPress
• 8 WordPress shortcodes
• 15 must use WordPress plugins for 2010
• 3 ways to display related posts in WordPress

Mean Kitty Song

Last night, at my husband’s baseball game, I heard two fans watching this video on their cell phone. I couldn’t resist posting it… it’s an oldie but goodie!

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The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Kitty vs. Halloween Bowl & Week in Review
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Slap Chop Remix
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & a Cute Cat Commercial
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & the 2nd Largest Aquarium in the World

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a Japanese cat commercial, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging

• How I really built a blog with 6,500 subscribers
• Don’t hit it big unless you’re ready for it
• How I built a blog with 6,500 subscribers
• 20 reasons why you need to start guest blogging
• Why some of your posts flop and how to fix it

Business / Finance

• Ways to support small businesses online
• 5 simple ways to optimize email marketing
• How Yelp and TripAdvisor help businesses thrive
• How do you use social media to boost local business?

Graphic / Web Design

• Stunning infographics and data visualization
• Showcase of web design in Hollywood
• 27 best looking free Drupal 6 themes
• 33 sexy examples of lingerie industry web design

Make Money Online

• My spin on squeeze pages and email lists
• 5 steps to email marketing magic
• Are you ready to work hard to make money online?

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• Is more success always a good idea?
• 100 ways to serve others
• 20 tactics to avoid during an argument
• Dealing with disappointment
• Working with your unconscious mind

Photography / Digital Art

• 35 photos of truly adorable animals in the snow
• 64 gorgeous nature photos of Ian Cameron
• Amazing pictures taken with an iPhone
• 85 photo montages with distinctive surrealism by Ben Goossens
• 20 examples of excellent HDR architecture photography

Search Engines / SEO

• 6 odd tactics for getting ads into Google Maps
• 5 reasons Google Social Search would be a nuisance
• What is a link worth – valuing PageRank
• Leveraging webinars to learn SEO (or anything else)
• 7 tips for local SEO and PPC success

Social Media

• 40 social networks for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups
• 8 simple steps to growing a quality Twitter following
• 10 apps to schedule future tweets on Twitter
• 6 points to ponder before using automatic status updates
• Simple social media marketing tactics for amplified exposure

Tech / Security

• 10 one minute websites
• Twitter users – change your password now
• Become a Gmail master redux

WordPress

• Use WordPress as a CMS with the Flutter plugin
• 20 free WordPress themes that outdo the rest
• 35 essential WordPress tricks and hacks
• WordPress for Android
• Cleaning up WordPress permalinks

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Next week, assuming I have proper research time, I should be getting to that long awaited article on social bookmarking networks.

Japanese Cat Commercial

If you need a daily dose of cute, you should add Cute Overload to your daily blog reading list. They shared this video of a commercial in Japanese… I’m not sure what it means, but it is very cute!

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Look What You’ve Missed:
The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Best Week Ever & Timelapse
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Slap Chop Remix
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & the 2nd Largest Aquarium in the World
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, TED & Creativity

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, the best week ever, and what is coming up next week on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging

• 100 tips on how to write a huge list post
• How to write the most powerful post
• 7 productive things to do when you can’t blog
• Double your traffic by distributing content into different mediums
• Create a blog that promises success

Business / Career / Finance

• How to get to the next level of success in your online business
• 3 ways to market yourself without business cards
• 30 minutes a day online marketing tips
• What is a good starting budget for an online business?
• Businesses can help Foursquare survive

Graphic / Web Design

• What every bloggers should know about design before buying a theme
• 40 examples of typography inspired in web design
• Showcase of web design in Germany
• 45 jQuery navigation plugins and tutorials
• 6 goals to reach when designing your next website

Make Money Online

• My take on having ads on your blog
• 5 C’s of affiliate marketing
• The blogger’s guide to becoming rich instead of just famous
• Is it easy to make money online?
• Are your Adsense revenues dropping and how to maximize Adsense income

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• How to defrag your mind in 5 easy steps
• How to overcome fear
• How to resolve conflicts with people
• Be selective about your activities
• Why I parted ways wiwth my best friend of 10 years

Photography / Digital Art

• 25 easy to use photo sharing sites
• 36 vibrant and colorful photographs by Hougaard Malan
• Amazing animal and nature photography by Scott Sutlberg
• 26 amazing photographs of waterfalls by location
• 30 capivating fire dance photos

SEO / Website Optimization

• Yahoo updating search
• Google is taking content from your site through rich snippets
• What is Alexa rank and how does it work?
• Unleashing the power of website analytics
• How search engines find your content

Social Media

• How to create an outstanding Facebook fan page and drive traffic
• 5 powerful steps to optimize your business on LinkedIn
• StumbleUpon etiquette guide and how to share in mass again
• HootSuite – the perfect Twitter client for business
• How to suck at Facebook

Tech

• Powerline computer networking
• 25 Firefox addons for bloggers
• 10 helpful websites you’ve never heard of
• Apple iPad – everything you need to know
• Replace your lost cellphone charger for free

WordPress

• Making WordPress mobile friendly
• 30 oustanding commercial WordPress portfolio and photoblog themes
• WordPress plugin to view a random post
• 17 important things to do after staring your WordPress blog
• How to add a RSS feed to a post or page using WordPress shortcode

Best Week Ever

This week has been really exciting. Monday I attended the Social Media AZ event in Tempe and learned a lot of valuable information on blogging, social media, and SEO thanks to a great selection of speakers. Wednesday, I woke up to a comment from Fred von Graf, founder of SMAZ, that I won a trip to Mexico for a tweet contest on the Worst Social Media Fail of 2009, which I believe is businesses who use social media as a one way advertising platform instead of two way conversation between them and their community. And today, I woke up to congratulatory tweets because I was voted in the Top 10 Social Media Blogs list with other social media experts such as Mashable, Jay Baer, and Amber Naslund. So all in all, a great week in the world of social media and blogging!

Advertising Opportunities

I have opened up advertising opportunities here at Kikolani. If you have an area you would like to be advertised in other than the sidebar, please contact me and I will see what I can do for you.

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Since I didn’t get to my post on using social bookmarking networks for information collecting in lieu of my recap of SMAZ, it is on the agenda for next week. I was waiting on a guest post to come through before I announced the other major post of next week, but it has yet to appear. Never fear, I will come up with something good if it doesn’t.

Timelapse

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The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Kitty vs. Halloween Bowl & Week in Review
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, 100 Greatest Hits on Youtube & Week in Review
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Week in Review & Poker Face
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Week in Review & a Funny Vitamin Water Ad
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Week in Review & Getting Off Your Computer To Exercise

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Midwinter in Sweden, and what’s coming up on Kikolani.

Thanks for Your Input!

Last week, I asked readers to let me know how many articles they would like to see in each category of the resources mashup. The votes are in, and they are as follows:

I have to admit, it was tough limiting some categories to only five posts. But I have an alternate idea for those who enjoyed seeing more results in particular categories, which I will be implementing sometime next month. So stay tuned!

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging

• How to use blog comments for persuasion – do’s and don’ts
• Does your blog have personality?
• How a blog review helps improve traffic
• Why many posts die quick but some blog posts live forever
• 5 ways blogging can save your sanity

Business / Career / Finance

• Key factors to a successful product launch
• What running a business and having a baby have in common
• Why blog for business
• How to retire young
• 18 online productivity tools for your business

Graphic / Web Design

• Does your site design turn off visitors?
• 30 Photoshop tips and tutorials for web design
• 44 beautiful Joomla website designs
• Design email newsletters without losing your mind

Health

• The ultimate how to get lean guide

Make Money Online

• Is having adsense on your blog worth it?
• Negotiating your worth as a blogger
• Test the monetization of your blog
• 5 ways to get started making money online

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• How to get yourself motivated by starting small
• Planting seeds of intent
• How to discover your real life purpose
• Are you the best version of yourself?

Photography / Digital Art

• 25 truly dramatic examples of animal photography
• 99 brilliant examples of infrared photography
• 50 examples of nature macro photography
• 40 amazing examples of macro photography
• 28 adorable photos of wild animals

SEO

• 10 reasons Google PageRank doesn’t concern me
• 6 super tips for creating a natural backlink profile
• How to fix a Google penalty
• Is Twitter the first result for your name on Google?

Social Media

• New social media connections could equal new opportunities
• How to use Facebook to conduct an interview
• 30 Twitter tools to help grow your community
• Better retweets from Twitter apps
• How to add a custom landing tab to your Facebook fan page

Tech

• Beware of Haiti relief scams
• 10 apps every Google Nexus One owner should have

WordPress

• How to add a RSS feed without a plugin and the feed cache
• 24 free portfolio and photo gallery WordPress themes
• 11 WordPress plugins to incrase blog traffic
• 18 unique uses of WordPress

Writing

• The ethics of your writing
• 7 ways to resurrect old blog content
• How to get your eHow RSS feed
• 33 copywriting tips found on Twitter
• 5 tips for giving your writing more cowbell

Coming Up on Kikolani

Next week, on Kikolani, I will write about the benefits of making your WordPress blog mobile (and how to do it easily), and ways to collect and organize information using popular social bookmarking / sharing sites.

Midwinter in Sweden

If you’re like me and living in an area that doesn’t see snow, or just appreciate beautiful nature videos, then you will enjoy the following video of Midwinter in Sweden.

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Look What You’ve Missed:
The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

1. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Mac vs. Windows Humor
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Happiest Turtle
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & DoFollow Resources
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Another Day at the Office & Swine Flu

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a reader poll, and upcoming posts on the Kikolani Network.

Reader Poll

Before I get to the good stuff (the resources of course), I wanted to ask Fetching Friday fans the following question.

I have been just putting any random number of posts in each category, based on how many I come across that I want to share with everyone (which sometimes can include 20+ articles in one category), but after a suggestion last week that this might be a bit overwhelming, I thought I’d open the floor to the readers because Fetching Fridays are always for you!

For this week, I will do my usual, but based on the response, I might change it up for future Fridays. Voting is open until Wednesday, January20th.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging

• How blog commenting makes a difference
• 7 traits of highly successful bloggers
• Why you should socially promote articles you comment on
• 6 ways to track blog success
• Localizing your blog
• 18 blog tips to help you succeed in 2010
• What do you prefer – comments, tweets or social sharing?
• Foolproof trick to beat writer’s block
• Why do you subscribe to blog comments?
• 10 things you should always do in a blog post
• The ultimate checklist for a killer blog post
• Make it easy to promote you
• How Blog Engage can help you as a blogger

Business / Finance

• Freelance Friday – how to be indispensable, having the right attitude, and more
• 30 New Year’s resolutions for small business owners and entrepreneurs
• Starting a business on a shoestring budget
• 5 ways to build your brand effectively
• 30 best business tips for 2010
• Creating an online marketing plan

Graphic / Web Design

• Single page website designs – 70 of the latest examples
• 70 fairly creative logo designs for inspiration
• 33 beautiful social media icon sets for designers and bloggers

Health

• The basics of chiropractic care
• 20 amazing inspiring fitness blogs

Make Money Online

• The honest truth about blogging for money
• Will Hamilton reveals how he makes six figures online teaching tennis
• Thesis affiliate program moving to Sharea a Sale
• How to make money product blogging

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• What does personal development mean to you?
• How writing down goals changed my life
• 50 ways to get your life in order
• Do you fear standing out from the crowd?
• 30 power words to activate intention setting

Photography / Digital Art

• 85 art of caricatures
• Vintage New York photographs
• Beautiful waterfall photography
• 25 breathtaking nature photography
• Stunning abstract black and white photography

SEO / Website Optimization

• Why nofollow still matters
• 6 ways to speed up loading time of your website
• You may be ranking better in Google search results than you think
• How one blogger increased PageRank from 0 to 4 in 21 days

Social Media

• The first female Digg user in the top 25
• Are you pissing off your Twitter followers?
• 10 gorgeous social media infographics
• Display huge profile pictures on your Facebook page
• How to cleanup Twitter followers after using Tweet Adder
• The complete guide to getting the most out of Twitter
• How to get the most out of Facebook Insights
• Want your tweets in Google realtime search? Get more followers!

Tech

• Are you ready to transfer to Chrome
• Free online virus and spyware scanner
• Do we deserve privacy online?
• Web security – Are you part of the problem?

WordPress

• 17 handy toolbar WordPress plugins for your blog
• Digging Into WordPress giveaway

Top 10 Social Media Blog Finalist

Kikolani is a finalist in the Top 10 Social Media Blogs for 2010. So if you enjoy this blog, please go and show your support!

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Next week on Kikolani, I have two guest posts on WordPress plugins that increase traffic and how one blogger got 200 subscribers in the first month of blogging. Also, check out Famous Bloggers and Blogger Luv, two sites that I will be regularly writing for weekly from now on.

Banana Phone

You may or may not have heard the original banana phone, but either way, this little rendition of it was a funny find by my husband this week, so I have to share it with everyone. The expressions are priceless!

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Hawaiaan relaxation & meditation, and what to expect next week on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging

• Reasons to love CommentLuv blogs
• Beware of scraped comments and fake trackback
• 13 lesser known blogs you should read in 2010
• 5 tips to boost your guest posting success
• Beginner bloggers vs. probloggers – when do you become an expert
• The secret of successful blogs – write, promote, repeat
• 53 promotional websites that increase traffic
• How to get more comments on your blog
• What does blogging mean to you?
• 10 ways to keep visitors coming back to your blog
• 14 traits of successful blogs
• The importance of being earnest with your content
• 13 ideas to inspire blog content
• 10 essential tips for marketing your blog
• Elements of a distinctive blogger
• 6 tips on blog post structure

Business / Career / Finance

• Make blogging work for business
• Help your teens make career decisions
• 27 things your job position requires
• 7 psychology tips that will help you sell
• 5 online marketing resolutions
• Why our online store profits are only up 41 year over year?
• Top 50 free online tools for startups

Freelancing

• Freelance Friday – Your ideal project profile, New Year’s resolutions & more

Graphic / Web Design

• 155 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009
• Lorem Ipsum is killing your designs
• Showcase of modern navigation design trends

Health

• 7 guides for healthy eating habits

Make Money Online

• 5 things you need to do before making money on your poetry blog
• Top email marketing tactics of 2010

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• Why we don’t reach our goals and keep resolutions
• Time to focus on abundance instead of scarcity
• How to quit being a quitter
• Which area of your life do you want to transform in 2010?
• Happiness – by chance or choice?
• 5 ways to conquer self doubt
• Star Trek Guide to Enlightenment
• 10 actions to getting your resolutions done
• 6 deceptively simple ways to conquer your fears
• It always pays well to be a constant student

Photography / Digital Art

• 26 incredible examples of infrared photography
• 57 beautiful nature photographs by Andreas Stridsberg
• 33 awe inspiring matte paintings by Christian Hecker
• 40 beautiful fairy illustrations and manipulations
• Beautiful sun photography – 60+ shots of sunrise and sunset
• 35 stunning digital photo manipulation artworks

SEO / Website Optimization

• How not to be labeled a spammer in Dofollow forums while link building
• Search engine world domination – stage one
• Introduction to Latent Semantic Indexing
• 4 ways to safely syndicate content
• Are your SEO resolutions actionable?
• Link building trends for 2010
• Linking to your own content
• Advices for the newbie in-house SEO
• Confused over .com and regional domain SEO advantages?
• 10 SEO myths to watch out for in 2010
• Top SEO tools and resources – Firefox add-ons
• How to get anchor text links without asking
• Top 10 free website speed testing tools

Social Media

• Will social media change in 2010?
• 8 things to avoid when building a community
• Ranting and deciding something about Twitter
• 8 business lessons learned from using Twitter
• 6 tools to cartoon yourself for Facebook and Twitter
• 25 Twitter backgrounds of famous bloggers
• How to auto post multiple blogs to a Facebook fan page
• How I will add 1,000 Twitter followers this year
• 4 steps for effective online networking
• Best social networking Google Chrome extensions
• How to add a flash video to a custom Facebook fan page
• Fine examples of viral Youtube marketing

Tech

• 25 Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys you need to know
• 10 mobile application development trends for 2010
• Why you should never opt out of a spam email?
• How to check shortened URL’s
• Securing your home network
• 15 top computer tech tips of 2009 from HTS Tech Tips

WordPress

• Is Movable Type’s new dashboard too similar to WordPress?
• 25 high quality premium-like WordPress themes
• 21 outstanding WordPress plugins
• WordPress MyReviewPlugin
• WordPress plugins that make your blog more user friendly

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Next week on Kikolani, I will share my blogging and social media goals of 2010, and also an analysis of how blog commenting makes a difference. Artistic Gemini will feature some of my personal development goals. And on the Dofollow blog, I will discuss the reason nofollow still matters.

Hawaiian Relaxation & Meditation

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Looking for some link love? Articles featured in the resources come primarily from people I interact with in the comments, and on the social networks. So comment away (DoFollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv enabled), and join me on the networks below, and if your article/photo/video catches my eye, it may appear in following Fetching Friday posts.

Look What You’ve Missed:
The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

1. Fetching Friday – The First Resources Mashup of 2010
2. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Your Input Wanted & More
3. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Old City Bar & Happy Holidays
4. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & a Star Wars Dance Off
5. Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Happiest Turtle