This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, DoFollow resources, and the week in review on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- Win a custom logo header for your blog
- How seriously do you take blog comments?
- 22 reasons to blog
- From planning to earning
- 20 terrifying horror blogs
- Take responsibility for your blogging
- Natural linking strategy for bloggers
Business / Finance
- 5 mistakes I made when starting my business, and how to avoid them
- Employers use social networking sites to screen job candidates
- 5 exceptions to minimum wage
- The ultimate small business startup guide introduction
Graphic / Web Design
- 40 free icons sets for designers
- 65 popular and professional fonts for creative typography
- Increase web development productivity on IE with DebugBar
- 50 beautiful and creative portfolios
- 25 tutorials and resources for jQuery
- 15 worst user experience design mistakes
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health
- Learn to cope with early failures
- Why multitasking is more than just inefficient
- Procrastination thumbscrews – know your procrastinating and time wasting weaknesses
- 100 ways to live a better life
- Create powerfully in pictures
- 5 ways to ask for what you want
Photography / Graphic Art / Illustration
- 100 vintage Budweiser ads and posters
- Unusual animal friendships
- 30 PSD’s of outstanding digital paintings
- Visions of earth by National Geographic
- 26 amazing 3d computer graphics
SEO / Tech
- Footer links suck
- Bring your favorite Google services to your Gmail page
- Tech support cheat sheet
- 20 free keyword research tools – comprehensive insight
- Google search results display breadcrumbs
- Google Insight – more languages and forecasting
- 15 useful Gmail sidebar gadgets you won’t find in labs
- Apple funds wild snow leopards
- 5 image bookmarking sites
- French exploding over iPhone
Series
- Anti-Social Lists
- Flashback Monday – WordPress basics, Thesis and life
Social Media
- 24 social media sites offering DoFollow profile links
- Twitter tips and tricks to drive traffic to your sites
- StumbleUpon WTF
- One way to be popular on Twitter
- Have gremlins invaded Twitter?
The Last, but not Least
- 100 sites to learn poetry online
- Uncomfortable movie plot summaries that will offend and amuse you
- Poodle doodles – dogs transformed into pandas, horses and snails
- Movie posters in lego world
- Never feed your pooch table scraps
- A real Bronx tale
Follow Friday Recommendations on Twitter
Here are my Follow Friday recommendations.
- @dofollowinfo for DoFollow resources
- @oneworddotcom of One Word, So Little Time, an interesting writing challenge
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DoFollow Resources
Are you a DoFollow blog owner? Do you want to find DoFollow link building resources? DoFollow Info is a DoFollow blog directory and compendium of DoFollow resources which I will be adding to more and more, including DoFollow social bookmarking sites, DoFollow forums, DoFollow article directories, and how to use them. So if you have a DoFollow blog, come submit your link now – it’s free! If you don’t see a category that suits your site, just suggest a new one. Not sure if your site is DoFollow? Don’t worry, we’ll review it and give you tips on how to make it DoFollow.
Week in Review
This week’s posts have been more on the personal side. I would first like to thank Celes for the mention in last week’s Fetching Friday comments that she missed my non-techie writings. It kind of gave me the reminder that it is ok for me to be non-techie here as well.
My post on Monday was probably the most difficult to form, as it was a tribute to my kitty Merlin that we said goodbye to over the weekend. I have looked at that post every day, sometimes more than once, just to see his face again. We miss him so much.
Yesterday’s post, on the other hand, was quite rewarding. When nice doesn’t cut it is more of a building reaction to life. While I hope to be an overall nice person, and love nice people, it is obvious that nice people get taken advantage of. Not to say being a complaintive grouch all of the time gets you anywhere either, but it’s a matter of finding balance, and not being nice when you deserve something you are not getting.
Let Yourself Feel
This is a beautiful find by an awesome blogger that I had to share. The music by Olafur Arnalds is simply wonderful.
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Thanks for adding me to your list Kristi! Good luck with your new Do Follow Directory,i will make a post on my blog and encourage people to add their site these days.
Cheers!
Nice Blogger´s last blog ..Top 10 Domain Sales 2008 vs 2009
Great round-up! I’d really like to say a special thanks to you for posting up all of that info regarding the do-follow blogs, that will be really helpful to me and I’m sure a lot of other people too.
Well, thanks again for the mention, and I am happy to witness this series evolving from a round-up of what’s hot on the interwebs up to the solid resource that is now. Great work, Kristi
Dragos Roua´s last blog ..7 Symptoms You’re On The Verge Of A Burn Out
I really like the “Take responsibility for your blogging” link, although it didn’t end up to be what I expected. I have made a lot of research on comments on blogs and media. I think that we should put a lot of focus on handling these comments and avoiding hate speech, etc.
Thank you Kristi , I really like your Blogging and graphic links! you have helped me to discover new stuff all the time!
Hesham´s last blog ..37 Links for my Twitter Friends and Sponsors of FBC Contest
This is my first visit and I wanted to say that it’s obvious that you like what you do because a lot of work has gone into creating this great site. Keep up the good work and I look forward to visiting again.
Jax Party Planner´s last blog ..Experiencing Entertainment With A Personal Touch
Thanks for all you do Kristi. Always appreciate the insights, information, and inclusion. You set the standard for a weekly resource series with Fetching Friday.
Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills´s last blog ..Why Multitasking is More than Just Inefficient
Great list, decided to stumble it for you. I really like the Lego posters which are great inspiration for a friend of mine who are trying to create a comic with Lego.
Stefan´s last blog ..Get the Most Out of Your Old Posts
As always this is a great collection. Many of these I have read during the week though some are new. That post on 5 Exceptions to Minimum Wage really made my blood boil as it seem like pretty scummy ways for employers to exploit employees. Can’t think of a better way to destroy any employee loyalty than this.
I appreciate your continued efforts with this post each Friday.
Rich Dansereau´s last blog ..Athletic Alley Blog Carnival – August 26, 2009
Kristi,
Way to serve up some tasty treats even us Sharks love.
Have a great weekend!
Frank J´s last blog ..How to Choose the Right Color Scheme for Your Website
Hi Kristi I just wanted to thank you for being a REAL person
and a great blogger and example to us all
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend
John Sullivan´s last blog ..Hasta La vista San Antonio
Truly appreciate the link love Kristi. I know it has not been an easy week for you, but your determination to be strong and still bless your readers are truly inspiring. Thank you for the resource and your care through the sharing.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
Ching Ya´s last blog ..How Seriously Do You Take Blog Comments?
Hi Kristi,
A classic on Friday on this week you add my (SEO Combat Forum) – SEO, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Tips & Tricks, Tools & Software, Adsense, Adwords, PPC on you list thanks for that and over all here many resources for blogging!!!
SEO Company´s last blog ..Website Promotion – Boost Your Products and Servicesl
Finally catching up on the end of the week and this is a great set of links for helping me get there. Kristi, I especially like and appreciate your focus on DoFollow links and sites in your writings, article links and in your Comments section. Very helpful and useful. Thanks.
Mike McEvoy´s last blog ..7 Reasons Netbook Computers are great for students
Once again, love this resource…I have been pretty out of it with everything this week, just been too busy with work. After going through fetching friday, I always feel caught up. Thanks again!
Hi Kristi,
I always love coming over to your Friday mashup. I find these little treasures in here- very very cool.
My blog is also do follow and the blog that I want to install in a subdirectory ( it will be about blogging) will have the commentluv plugin also.
Anyways- thanks for finding these awesome resources- you totally rock!
All the best,
Eren
Eren Mckay´s last blog ..Biblical creation vs. evolution videos & scientific evidence & facts
Hey Kristi,
Thanks for the link! You’ve certainly did a great roundup of posts for last week. I’ll need to look into the no follow thingy you are talking about. I have no idea about what my blog allows or is doing. I only know how to write and post but am not sure about the finer details of the running of a blog. Thanks for the pointer!
Evelyn Lim´s last blog ..Angelic Reiki Healing with Angels, Archangels and Ascended Masters
Kirsti thanks for this nice list of links. Its nice gift for all of us in the end of that month.
Thanks so much I think I finally made a decision so things are looking up
Hope all is well with YOU
John Sullivan´s last blog ..Is friendship a fantasy ?
Wow, I finally made a Fetching Friday; thanks Kristi! Now I’ve got to try to make it here again!
Mitch´s last blog ..Post #500; Something New For Me
Kristi, this list has made my day. I cant believe it took more than 20 days to land here despite doing hours of search on google. I bet such resources are really handy for newcomers like me to find all info at one place. The Budweiser Vintage Ads being my most favorite, and I plan to work with that page on the weekends which helps me to pop up with some good branding ideas. I am going to refer one of my friend a graphic designer the 40 icon’s page. Needless to say hats off for putting this list that too on a Friday.
Regards,
Mack McMillan
Foreclosure Las Vegas´s last blog ..Las Vegas Property Investments
We can always depend upon you to come up with interesting resources on the web. I found myself enjoying old Budweiser advertisements. They don’t make ads like they used to! Hopefully we’ll get another good round of creative advertising when this recession is truly over.
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