This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, back to school backpack safety, reviews, and previews for next week’s posts on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- WordPress 2.8.2 upgrade information
- Open the trottle to your blog
- Is your blog a community
- Hostgator review and why I recommend this host as a blogger
- New and comprehensive WordPress 2.8 tutorials and hacks toolbox
Business / Finance
- 5 things they don’t teach in business school about being an entrepreneur
- Customer service with a smile
- What recession?
Graphic & Web Design
- Website valuation tools
- 70 typographic clean and minimalistic color scheme web designs
- 20 blogs for designers and 50 designers on Twitter
Personal Development / Growth / Self Improvement
- Power of intention – a personal quest
- “I Can” vs “I Do”
- Success leaves clues for you
- How to live like you were dying
- Do you dread growing older?
- The world needs life referees
- 9 tips for living a happier life
- How to make better decisions
Photography / Digital Arts
- The magic of smoke photography
- Photos of this week’s solar eclipse
- Kung Fu fighting squirrels
- Water faces
- Experience the Grand Canyon
- 20 amusing church signs
- 80 exceptionally beautiful photographys of Paris
- Photographs of Michigan
SEO / Tech
- 5 little known keys to succeed at SEO
- Google PageRank updates more frequent
- SEO oriented search operators for Google
- What is a PageRank?
- 8 reasons to like Bing
- 50 tips & tricks for searching with Bing
- Link-building through DoFollow blog commenting
Series
- Feeding Frenzy – with a big byte
- Anti-Social Lists – great links & guinea pigs eating watermelons
- Flashback Monday – 100 comments, social media marketing challenge
Social Media
- Huge list of Twitter celebrities and free Twitter backgrounds
- 7 habits of highly effective Twitter users
- 12 ways to use LinkedIn today
Follow Friday Recommendations on Twitter
Here are my local Follow Friday recommendations
- @AZNaturalChiro – promoting drug-free, natural health & wellness through chiropractic care in Scottsdale
- @EuroRhythm – Scottsdale dance studio tweeting about the benefits of Ballroom dancing, and how to start a new career as a ballroom dance instructor
Also, if you enjoy this post and my tweets on blogging, social media, photography, and more, be sure to give me a shout out as follows:
RT @kikolani Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Back to School Backpack Safety > http://bit.ly/lrZWR
Related News
This week, I was featured in an interview at Famous Bloggers Club. Also, I wrote a new article on eHow on ways to build backlinks through DoFollow blog commenting.
Week in Review
This week begins a four, possibly five part series on the ways I have WordPress Thesis Theme Customization. Part one is about the specific Thesis Design Options that can be configured without any coding knowledge.
Preview for the week of 27 July 2009
Next week, in continuation of the WordPress Thesis Theme Customization series, I will cover the plugins that I use to enhance the functionality and design of this site.
Backpack Safety
It’s almost back to school time. Here is a short segment about backpack safety.
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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.
The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more
About Kristi Hines
Kikolani covers blog marketing and blogging tips for personal, professional, and business bloggers to succeed in search and social media marketing. Kristi Hines is a 
Wow Friday seems like it comes and goes so fast. I was actually finishing a post and included you. No sooner then I clicked enter then some clown from one of the sites I mentioned wrote me my FIRST negative comment
LOL
Anyway going to scroll through the list thanks again for mentioning me
Stumbled and RT
Kristi,
Thanks for sharing the list of posts. I’m working on SEO for my site now, so I’ll pay close attention to those particularly. Also, glad you shared the video about backpacks. I’ll be back to school in a month or so, and I definitely need to look for a backpack that will not put too much pressure on my back. At 17, I already feel like I’m getting old!
Kristi,
It only gets better! Thank you for the link love! Hey John how do you ever get by the Spam protection here?
These are some really good articles, I read a few of those articles before making this comment. Got information on linkedin and twitter.
By the way, thanks for adding my links.
Kristi, you never cease to amaze me! Another great one.
Kristi,
You have done it again,woman! I look forward to Fetching Fridays so much. I can catch up on everything, I have missed during the week.
You just keep getting better!
This series keeps getting bigger and better. I really liked the backpack safety video. I was just buying backpacks and school supplies for my kids earlier today…that was very insightful.
Hey Kristi! Thank you so much for your link love again, and for your mention in your interview! That’s really an honor!
I love your article on dofollow commenting at ehow too – have rated it with a 5 stars!
@John,
Has that guy who was mad connect you directly?
Wow, I love the series on smoke photography, but surely some of those photos would have to be digitized computer images? If not, they may have some ingenious method they use that controls the random way that smoke rises and stuff.
Kristi, fantastic resources. I cannot say enough about your collection of goodies on Fetching Friday. Thanks for sharing all of this with us!
Great line up of information, I love being able to come somewhere and play catch up from the things I missed online all week.
Very informative post…I really never thought twice about backpacks and what they might do to our bodies. So I guess there are more than just the usual health risks of going to college forever like I did…Thanks For the link love!
Another great round-up of the week althought I am not coming on it till the very, very, very end. Top notch as always! I just hope I can spare the time at the first part of the week making my way thoughtfully through all your links.
It’s nearly a back to school day. Is it the reason that you want to blog some serious stuffs like WP theme customization?
Part one is about the specific Thesis Design Options that can be configured without any coding knowledge.
Nice summarise. I read some of those (not everything of course). I liked the most “Opening the trottle to your blog” from Blogging and “What Recession? Why Year Over Year Profits Are Up 75%” from Business/finance. Your post is like a little library of useful informations. I like that, You check other blogs and sites in search for interesting content and than You show it to people that might be interested in reading. Thanks.
These are some really good articles, I read a few of those articles before making this comment. good information.
Hi Kristi, thanks for your link again, this time to my Grand Canyon post. Also, I like your wonderful twitter links.
Kristi,
I knew I can count on you. ^^ Have been MIA during the WP migration. I know have missed quite a lot of updates here and there. Checking out Fetching Friday and TechJaw’s Feeding Frenzy is a must do weekly. Thanks again!
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
Thanks for the links, there are a lot that I think I’ll enjoy reading. I know I’ll enjoy the Anti Social Lists, Kim’s site is such a great resource (just like this one).
Hi Kristi, thanks for the great link list, especially the photography section, there are some beautiful images in there.
The smoke series and those taken during the solar eclipse are excellent, I love the one with the student wearing a stack of sunglasses to protect his eyes whilst viewing the eclipse! I also couldn’t help but have a giggle at the ‘Kung Fu Fighting Squirrels’, brilliant stuff!
Great stuff man, I really love this post you did an excellent job of providing some of the best resources out there. I have stumbled, reviewed, and shared with my friends! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for these Kristi. Some of the links will prove to be extremely useful.
Wow, some nice posts you listed. I have bookmarked some for later reading. I like the way you have put the posts in categories to help others out.
Thanks for sharing the list of posts. I’m working on SEO for my site now, so I’ll pay close attention to those particularly.
Great Kristi,
You do it again, I look forward to read all Fetching Fridays posts so much, it was great to read all post with the great interests and enjoy, whole series is interesting exited to read..
Thanks for sharing with us..
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