This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, a Star Wars Dance Off, 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
- Using the WordPress more tag to control content on the front page
- How to blog – one topic or many
- Free multimedia for your blog
- WordPress 2.8.3 security update
- 30 ways to make money online blogging
- So you want to be king?
Business / Finance
- How to make time equal money 24 hours a day
- Separating business from personal: the art of marketing
- 30 creative ways to add bullet points to your resume
- 100 best entrepreneurial blogs
Graphic / Web Design
- 30 helpful video tutorials for web developers
- 50 gorgeous flash websites you should see for inspiration
- 30 fresh and inspirational portfolios with a twist
- 30 awesome jQuery photo plugins
- Integrate WordPress in a Joomla website
Personal Development / Growth / Self Improvement / Health
- Small changes that will make you happy
- Declutter your life by decluttering your home in 8 easy to follow steps
- I can be better
- Is it time to reinvent yourself?
- Chiropractic – a natural solution to health
- Take action and start making things happen
Photography / Computer Generated Art
- 20 HDR photographs that make the ordinary look extraordinary
- 26 ridiculously awesome CG portraits
- Classic photography recreated using legos
- 21 stunning examples of macro photography
SEO / Tech
- August 2009 discount coupons and codes
- 12 ways to preview suspicious shortened URLs
- Strategies for dealing with email overload
- 30 free SEO tools you must know
- You’re chance at SEO Mastery
- 7 tips to be more productive with Gmail
- 23 websites to find good content on the web
- 10 stupid reasons use Bing
Series
- Shark Week – two blog reviews every day this week
- Anti-Social Lists
- Flashback Monday – Income, goals and Thesis
Social Media
- StumbleUpon me and I do follow and stumble you
- How to generate blog content from your own tweets with twitter tools
- 7 useful Firefox add-ons for Twitter
The Last, but not Least
- WiseStart – the best homepage for your browser
- 70 creative and amazing origami creations
- Publishing your short fiction
Follow Friday Recommendations on Twitter
Here is my Follow Friday recommendation for this week.
- @phaloo a very friendly member of the Twitter community who shares some awesome websites
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, & a Star Wars Dance Off > http://bit.ly/UNtGE
Related News
- Kikolani was featured in Shark Week over at Techjaws!
On a personal note, I have auto-scheduled this post and a tweet for Fetching Friday because I will be on my way to Vegas for the weekend. Keep an eye out on my Twitter for Twitpics!
Week in Review
This week, I veered off of my WordPress Thesis series in response to the pickup in StumbleUpon spammers. So this week’s post was on StumbleUpon etiquette faux pas, tips and resources.
Preview for the week of 10 August 2009
Next week, the continuation of the WordPress Thesis Customization series as planned with the actual coding in the Thesis OpenHook, custom functions and custom styling section that create the menu, Tweetmeme, layout and more on Kikolani.
Dance Off With Star Wars
If you’re a fan of 90′s music and Star Wars, this is a must see clip!
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Awesome resource as usual, I am sure it takes all week to make this post. I have been thinking to start something like this but it’s a lot of work and I can’t really devote that much time. Thanks for mention of selfalot as always.
Take care and cheers.
.-= Robin Bal´s last blog ..Keep Putting That Toe In The Water =-.
Nice timing I knew I’d catch Frank sleeping LOL
Your such a good friend hey have fun in Vegas
I want to GO
I have many friends that I grew up with that for some reason ended up there
many I knew since birth so It would be cool to see them.
Thanks for mentioning my post
Stumbled
Have a great weekend everyone
.-= John Sullivan´s last blog ..Dropping a hiroshima size bomb on blogging =-.
Great list of resources again. I will check them all out.
Yaa nice update on fetching Friday good video on Dance off with star wars, but in this week i have more trouble with twitter most of time it’s not connect to server i think is there any problem , nice social media update on twitter, in this week Firefox cross 1 billion download good news!!!
.-= SEO Company´s last blog ..Factors Affecting Bing Ranking =-.
Hey Kristi,
Great lit of useful stuff..
and thanks for the mention
.-= Muhammad Siyab´s last blog ..10 Facts About the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki =-.
Twitter: wchingya
August 7, 2009 at 6:16 am
I was just browsing through the links, sure found some gems within. Tweeted some and would visit more after this. ^^ What a dance off! Sure is a fantastic way to kick off Friday with! Where’s the disco ball?
Thanks Krisiti for your stumble & feature. Right back at ya!
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
.-= Ching Ya´s last blog ..12 Ways To Reveal Suspicious Shortened URLs! =-.
This is a great resource as always. Many of these I have already checked out but I will be checking out many of the others. That Star Wars video is pretty hysterical too!
.-= Rich Dansereau´s last blog ..Why we list our member’s Open Houses and other events =-.
I usually start looking for Fetching Friday in the afternoon, but you got the jump on us today Kristi. That’s great, more time to explore the treasures you have for us this week. Thanks for this excellent resource.
.-= Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills´s last blog ..Is It Time to Reinvent Yourself? =-.
Kristi,
It is why I love Friday’s, well, that and the beers after work.
Keep writing!!!
.-= Frank J´s last blog ..Shark Week – Kikolani and CornerScribe =-.
Kristi, thanks for the inclusion. I am glad that you liked my article.
.-= Danny Thornton´s last blog ..Danny Thornton commented on the blog post Separating Business from Personal: The Art of Marketing =-.
I look forward to this every week. Awesome job!
.-= Peter Liu´s last blog ..Keawakapu Sunset =-.
Yet another collection of great pages.
Thank you very much for listing my post (Small changes that will make you happy) among these great posts.
best wishes.
.-= irtiza104´s last blog ..Small Changes to Make You Happy =-.
I always look forward to these posts Kristi. It’s nice to know that there is at least one constant in life that can be relied on. Out of all those links I’ve chosen the post about being king, not that I wanted to be king, I was just interesting to find out what it was all about. Once again it was a good read.
.-= Sire@ WassupBlog´s last blog ..Why I Am Not Such A Social Person =-.
Hey Kristi,
Another great list. Although I was on holiday, I did checked your site on Friday and saw this post, but couldn’t comment until now. Thanks again for the link love and keep those Fetching Fridays coming
.-= Dragos Roua´s last blog ..Finding Reasons To Agree =-.
A weekly round up post is a good idea..you at least know what you have planned for Friday..wish I was organized enough to follow a schedule. Some interesting resources listed above..I’ll have to check out the Joomla/wordpress integration post for sure.
.-= Adam´s last blog .. =-.
Love the Star Wars dance off video, Chewie is definitely a wookie who knows how to accessorize with his shades and gold bag!. He’s no match for Vadar and the storm troopers on the dancing front though, they were superb.
.-= Stu – T-Shirt Insight´s last blog ..Space Invaders T-Shirt – A Simple Plan – Reprinted =-.
Twitter: erenmckay
August 10, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Those are some awesome resources Kristi,
I especially enjoy the Star wars video. My boys love Star wars so I’m going to show them this. We’re having a Star Wars birthday party so it all comes together
Also the 30 video tutorials- very cool.
You always find the coolest things!
All the best,
Eren
.-= Eren Mckay´s last blog ..Gingerbread man decorations & decorating gingerbread house kits plans =-.
Hey Kristi! We haven’t connected in a while so hope you’re doing great so far (with your hubby too!) Hope you’re enjoying your week in Vegas and look forward to reading more about your trip when you return!
.-= Celes | CelestineChua.com´s last blog ..What’s On Your Bucket List? 101 Things To Do Before You Die =-.
Oh I love that star wars dance off video, its great! Have to thank you twice from my crazy star wars obsessed friend, lol.
.-= Dan´s last blog ..My Plans for Domimation =-.
hey Kristi,
I clicked through to this post to see what the “Star Wars Dance Off” was but then a link for “king” caught my eye, and I saw it was to John’s blog which I haven’t visited in too long. Thanks for the link! And all the mash as well.
~ Steve, the trade show guru
.-= trade show guru´s last blog ..Trade Show Kinsella =-.
Wow! Apparently, you spend a lot of time keeping sharp. I’ll go through the blogging articles you’ve Stumbled.
.-= Kennewick Colleen´s last blog ..Kennewick Real Estate Listings =-.
Twitter: Mike_hts
August 13, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I’ve been offline and on vacation for 8 days. Looks like another great set of Fetching Friday info to dig into. Thanks Kristi for collecting some many excellent and insightful chunks of the web and the blogosphere in one place. Love the Stars Wars Dance Off.
.-= Mike McEvoy´s last blog ..Using Bing Search Preferences, Helpful Search Tips =-.
Great list as always – I’ll spend a bit of time checking it out when I get a bit of free time!
Nice Kristi,
Awesome video on Dance off with star wars, i really enjoy it, whole post was interesting, i get crazy after watching this please keep continue to discuss such types of posts….
thanks for sharing with us…
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