This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, just another day at the office, and how it’s not swine flu.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- Theme Switch – another WordPress plugin for theme development
- About ProBlogger
- 5 smart legal steps for your blog
- 35 awesome WordPress plugins for Twitter
- How we earned over 200 subscribers with 2 simple posts
- Twittley – WordPress plugin for Twitter review
Business / Finance
- 20 surefire ways to use Twitter for business
- Are you addicted to cruise control with your small business?
Graphic / Web Design
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health
- 7 ways to say no
- 37 ways to improve your life right now
- Circumvating obstacles
- Booster technique – inauthentic and authentic emotions
- What it really takes to achieve the impossible
- How to find your inner passion
Photography / Digital Art
- 25 cute dog photos
- Creative portrait photography
- Beautiful black and white portrait photography
SEO
- Google whacking on Bing
- Have you been penalized by Google?
- Should I do SEO for Bing?
Tech
- 12 tools to compare data on your hard drive
- Free iPhone apps to keep you fit and healthy
- 10 awesome website that help you discover the best web apps
- Solution to fix a slow running Firefox
Social Media
- Upcoming StumbleUpon changes
- StumbleUpon makeover
- Best practices for sharing Facebook events
- 13 essential word of mouth marketing tools
- How to build a Facebook community
The Last, but not Least
It’s Not Swine Flu
This has been yet another quiet week on the blogging front due to my husband and I both coming down with a seriously nasty respiratory infection. No, it wasn’t the swine flu (although that is what everyone keeps asking us). Just something seriously harsh that put us both down and out for the week. Thank goodness we had the week off for tennis… it couldn’t have been more perfectly timed.
Just Another Day at the Office
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Thank you as always, Kristi
Funny, just this week I have a client freaking out about their website getting penalized from Google. It’s their fault — but now, I, of course have to come to the rescue and fix it! Anyway, the article on Google penalization is timely!
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Excellent round-up Kristi! And thanks for including my post about Firefox too!
Btw, it would be nice to see some more posts about Graphic/Web Design.
Enjoy!
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Another wonderful Fetching Friday post, and glad/hope you and your husband are feeling better. Thanks so much for including the post from MiscBytes on there; I think Stefan did a great job.
I LOVE that Strange Mashups of the Periodic Table! Great find, thanks!
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Kristi,
Love the mentioned articles. You scared me when I read the title of your Fetching Friday – “Another Day at the Office & Swine Flu”
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Funny video, it’s amazing what people can come up with from time to time, and only based on using a song
Out of the links in this post, I’d say the one that caught my attention the most was “How we earned over 200 subscribers with 2 simple posts” and “Google whacking on Bing” – so I’ll go read those first, thanks!
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Hope you and your husband have recovered from the flu and that all is well. The posts on SU changes are useful, I use SU quite a lot and have to say the update took me by surprise. I did look over the SEO articles at techjaws and have bookmarked the sites that can tell me whether the domain is penalized or not. Thanks again for these resources; I’m certainly learning from them.
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The swine flu is going to be a scare all this winter. May as well get vaccinated. They say you need to have the regular flu shot at least a month in advance of the pig flu vaccine. So don’t wait!
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So sorry to hear you and your husband have the flu. I wish you both a speedy recovery.
I just loved the video, if only everyday was like this one.
Thanks you so much for the link luv.
Your the best and you did an fantastic job with the flu. I cant wait to start reading!
God Bless
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Another great one, stumble it till I come back to enjoy the read!
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Thanks for the link to the Twittley review. I just added a comment there after shifting from Tweetmeme to Backtype’s Tweetcount plugin today. I’m not a fan of requiring my blog readers to click into OAuth windows when the Tweetcount plugin doesn’t require it (as Tweeteme used to be).
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Kristi, you are Spectacular.
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Thanks Kristi; great to see you’re still reading. I see you’ve caught the flu; I wish a speedy recovery.
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Thanks for including my blog in your personal development/self improvement list. As usual, this week’s Fetching Friday is full of wonderful resources. It’s Sunday and I’m still reading. Thanks a ton!
I love your links Kristi, I end up visiting so many sites it’s impossible not to find new friends. I hope you are feeling better.
Great post as usual
I think the post on thinking about legal issues for your blog is pretty important and it is correct to say that this is something people are going to need to be more conscious of. I know recently, the FCC passed a rule that makes it necessary to post disclosure statements on sites when reviewing a product that you were compensated for, so, at least for those in the US, this could end up shaping things tremendously…
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Hey thanks for that..I really like the have you been penalized from Google one although not sure about the first Google Penalty checker…it gives its own site a penalty rankings of 10!!!! Thanks
Great portraits at the portrait photography link… I was surprised how many of them B&W… I like those better for some reason…
Thanks: Rob
Crazy weekend and am only now getting around to actually reading through many of the links above. Great stuff, as usual. Very helpful personal development links, which I generally don’t focus on enough. Also found the Blog Herald’s “5 Smart Legal Steps for Your Blog” to be some very good food for thought.
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Thanks for the great info. I’m definitely going to add some of the twitter tools when my site’s blog is up and running.
I’m new to your blog so you may have answered this at some point, I just wanted to know if anyone has gathered any data on if Google puts any emphasis on the ratio of ‘dofollow’ vs ‘nofollow’? It occured to me that perhaps instead of ignoring the ‘nofollow’ they compare it to the number of ‘follow’ backlinks. Anyway, thanks again. – Alan
sorry to hear abt Flu
loved video, hey what abt Sandbox ? can u please post something on it too, we would like to hear more on it too.
yup nice resources and great video i always wait this fetching Friday post in every sturdy wow nice video on office day!!!
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Thank you heaps for the link
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I am glad to hear that your non-flu has come and gone at an opportune time. It seems milder this year than in years past despite all the scare tactics being employed in the media. Before being mandated to stop actually checking to see if people really had the flu, the numbers were running from 2% to just under 20% of cases tested actually having the flu. Normally I do not put much stock in CBS, but I do not think they would have just made those figures up. I do wonder why they didn’t color them in some other way, though.
Also, I can’t wait to dig into your links above. Some of them look really exciting.
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Some of the great post. I really like the posts on SEO Should I SEO for bing? Thank you for sharing
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