This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FollowFriday recommendations, the Slap Chop remix, 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 / Design
- 15 free Blogspot templates
- WordPress 2.8.1 released
- Payoff your debts using a blog
- Increase blog traffic with these methods
- Why do your blog?
- Beautiful gradient effects on web design
- 100 famous bloggers club members
- WordPress plugins – changes & requests
- 7 CSS galleries to help you find inspiration
Tech / SEO
- Things to check before you buy a domain
- 7 things I like about Seesmic’s browser client
- Comprehensive review of Meta tags
- Review of the Asus – Eee PC Netbook
- Why you need to use Gmail
- How to avoid being penalized by Google
- Keyword Optimization
- 10 ways to increase Adsense revenue
Social Media
- Marketing to the social web and the new rules of engagement
- Find local Twitter users
- 5 social marketing pitfalls you should avoid
- Facebook at work – help or hazard?
Business / Career / Advertising
- Maintain your resume
- Make your online store look awesome
- Factors to freelancing success
- 80 smart and creative advertisements
- Advertising towards dummies – interview with an advertising professional
- How to start an article writing business
Weekly Series
- Feeding Frenzy Saturday – Sharks in the bay
- Flashback Monday – WordPress 2.8.1, article writing case study
- Anti-Social Lists
- Friday with Friends
Personal Development / Growth / Self Improvement / Health
- Have courage to find your life purpose
- 50 ways to boost your productivity
- Positive vs. negative motivation
- First comes fear then the blessing
- Motivation – the heart of self improvement
- How to be happy first thing in the morning
Photography
- Funny dog photos
- Planes in the sky
- Around water
- Sabino Canyon during monsoon season
- 8 steps on how to take awesome pictures
- Tilt shift miniature model effect photography
Last, but not Least
- Apollo 11 Moon Landing – No Hoax
- Greenpeace – Send a whale
- Top 10 overlooked locations in the UK
- 50 amazing facts about cats
#FollowFriday Recommendations on Twitter
Here are my #followfriday recommendations.
- @atmmultimedia of AtMultimedia.com
- @madhollywood of JasonZuckerman.com
- @jenwag57 of ConnectWithYourTeens.blogspot.com
One more shout to last week’s recommendations: @Mike_hts, @hishaman, and @workhappynow.
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, & Slap Chop Remix > http://bit.ly/OpiEK
Related News
This week has been a busy one for me – so much that I had to buy a planner and actually use it to keep track of all my appointments!
Some highlights include:
- Finishing a WordPress customization for a highly recommended Scottsdale chiropractor.
- Writing two eHow articles: How to Improve Well-Being Naturally in Scottsdale and How to Get Started Dancing in Scottsdale.
- Updating my portfolio.
- Designing my first personal business card.
For personal news, I also got a spiffy new haircut and I won with my respective partners 6-4, 6-5, 6-2 in tennis round-robin doubles.
Week in Review
This week, I was 1 out of 2 in the new article front with Benefits of Blogging – Becoming an Authority. Something that I should have clarified in the article, which I did later in the comments, was that I consider authorities people that are knowledgable on a certain subect. They don’t necessarily have to be professionals, but just someone that does do continued research and study on a specific topic, and shares that information with others.
Preview for the week of 20 July 2009
I’ve been wanting to do a run-down of all of the customizations I have done with my Thesis theme. I find lots of websites that have great customization work, but it takes forever to find all of the various websites to get the custom coding. So if there is anything here that you would like to implement on your own site, I will be doing a rundown of all the tweaks and code I used.
Slap Chop Remix
This will be the best infomercial – EVER. The YouTube video quality isn’t the greatest, but it’s the rap that makes it more than the visual. Especially when they get to the nuts!
Better video quality at TMZ.
Closing Question for My Readers
Do you have a business card for your blog? I want to see it for an upcoming post. Please let me know in the comments and I’ll contact you via email.
Want to be Featured in Fetching Friday posts?
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
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Kristi,
Great effort and awesome array of blogs that I missed during the week. It has been a busy week catching up from coming back from a needed vacation.
Great job kid!
Frank Js last blog post..Apollo 11 Moon Landing No Hoax
Pretty good list of sites, as usual. I especially likes EzxtremeJohn’s article WordPress Plugins, and the Apollo moon landing interesting.
Sire@ WassupBlogs last blog post..7 Beautiful CSS Galleries To Help You Find Inspiration
Thanks for the follow friday recommendation. I was so busy today I forgot all about twitter and follow friday. Next week I’ll be at blog her. I’ll eventually have to make up for it. Great post once again.
Jennifer/Connect with your Teenss last blog post..Did Marriage and Kids Change You?
Kristi, you rock! This will keep me busy for awhile. The plugins an blog traffic sound good for starters. Thank you.
Jonathan – Advanced Life Skillss last blog post..Friday with Friends – July 17
Another Fetching Friday HomeRun. Great stuff and plenty to dig into over the weekend. Also looking forward to your upcoming piece on DIYthemes’ Thesis WordPress theme.
Mike McEvoys last blog post..Microsoft Bing – Eight Reasons to Like Bing
Hey, thanks for the link love Kristi! That was unexpected and wonderful to see, thank you so much!
Waynes last blog post..10 Ways To Increase Your AdSense Revenue
I was looking forward to this post. Neat list of link love, something useful to read through over the weekend. Thanks.
Robin Bals last blog post..Getting Hitched? Would You Get Hitched For Money
Some good stuff here, Kristi, and I’ll be checking out a lot of them. Some I’ve already read; seems we have a few similar tastes. Good job!
Mitchs last blog post..Reviewing Visitors
Hi Kristi,
It is late o’clock here. We just got in and as usual Thumper is checking on email and I am relaxing with Fetching Friday but I know it will take me all weekend to cover.
YOU !!are just amazing with all the information you cover on here.
We both want to thank you for featuring my interview with my husband. That was so much fun and truly appreciated.
Keep up the splendid job!
Have a great weekend.
BunnygotBlogs last blog post..Advertising Towards Dummies: Interview With An Advertising Professional
Lovely list. Certainly will need some advice on ways to boost up my productivity (nice post). ^^ Some great resources within, bookmarked to go through them tomorrow. Thank you for saving our times by digging up the juicy news around the web. Well shared.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
Always a nice collection of blog entries. I always find a few I missed during the week. Thanks!
Joanies last blog post..10 Ways to Lose 10 Pounds
Haha ! The Slap Chop and that too a remix !
There’s atleast one TV channel here that has just begun showing the slap-chop infomercial – but they’ve also added with it a free cheese grater where vince goes “Tacos… Nachos… Linguine… Fettuccine… Martini… Bikini”
Always cracks me up !
Jaffers last blog post..Yes, I’m still around and a couple of updates
Another great list of must read content. You might owe me $19.95 because that video made me want that Slap Chop lol
Brian D. Hawkinss last blog post..Just Ask – Article Marketing And Site Promotion
I just rained down on your site some stumble LUV
I just told some Kristi look a like to look u up on twitter
I came by to thank you for mentioning me but more importantly being a cool person and a great online friend NOW WHAT
thanks also for supporting my site I do appreciate it
You add sanity to the NUT HOUSE:)
John Sullivans last blog post..Do follow links good or bad the real answer
Thanks for the link love. I’ve been a totally slacker on commenting lately so sorry for that
Kim Woodbridges last blog post..Don’t Paste Content from Microsoft Word into the WordPress Visual Editor
Hi Kristi always back for Fetching Fridays, I also felt the 100 Famous Bloggers article was excellent and included it in one of my articles earlier today, very creative.
You know you bring up an interesting question in regards to the Business card for your blog, I have never really thought about it, but with having two brick and mortor business’s and an online business it sounds like a great idea. I am curious to see what that article looks like so I can implement one in the best way possible, especially since I don’t recall seeing any on other blogs.
Extreme Johns last blog post..Morphing RSS Feeds
As always a very comprehensive list full of info and very interesting articles. Nice going Kristi! Great job!
Hi Kristi, thanks for including my Tilt Shift post in your list. I always love to read your Fetching Friday as usual … thanks for sharing.
Kristi, since I’m a strange person, I love the non-conformist and the different. I’d almost buy the damn thing even though I’d never use it. I love it. Thanks for sharing!!!
Stephen – Rat Race Traps last blog post..Top 99 Personal Development Principles from the Greatest Gurus of All Time
wow nice point here i like video is much better on this Friday Fetching, nice follow recommended for twitter i like more twitter and give more time on this smo thanks for sharing…..
Wow! Thanks for putting together all of those resources. I am interested in all of those topics apart from the photography section. That will keep me busy reading for a while.
That Slap Chop Remix had me laughing.
Ben | Self Help Golds last blog post..Step on the Brake: You Can’t Outrun Suffering
thanks for a good succession for Investing In Video Follow Friday, & Slap Chop Remix.
Great link list Kristi. Special thanks for the tilt shift photography link, I love the effect it creates, it really is hard to tell them apart from toys or models when the technique is used well. The picture of the assorted Fiat 500 cars is my particular favorite though they are all very good examples.
Stu – T-Shirt Insights last blog post..Electronic Drum Kit T-Shirt from ThinkGeek
Yet another great round up of links! That slap chop infomercial is DA BOMB!!! I thought the video was jamming up on me when I first started playing, then I quickly realized it was a rap!! I thought the product is a little too small though. It’ll be much easier if it’s big and I can just slap chop everything away rather than portion by portion.
Celes | CelestineChua.coms last blog post..Law of Diminishing Returns
As always a very comprehensive list full of information and very interesting articles. Nice going Kristi! Great job!
Nice series of blog posts, i like each posts having different kind of engagement for readers, new ideas and creativity, nothing look repeated ever, awesome writing skills..
Thanks for sharing this..
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