This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FollowFriday recommendations, a beautiful video of the 2nd largest aquarium in the world, 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
- How to write compelling content for your blog
- Setup your blog for social media marketing
- Display Twitter & RSS count in plain text
- Is it time to Blog Engage?
- Bunny’s Reads: technical, informative, inspiring
- Big move to WordPress from Blogger
Business / Finance
- How do I make my people happy?
- 10 reasons your business should be using email marketing
- 100 ways to be a better leader
- 15 freelance design & development job boards
Graphic / Web Design
- Top sites to get free icons
- Free web based widget tools for website owners
- Basic Drupal site configuration for a well oilled CMS
- Beautiful coming soon pages
- 52 free high quality, professional fonts
Personal Development / Growth / Self Improvement / Health
- Spiritual growth – top 7 benefits
- Power of less – identify what is essential
- Using your environment to achieve your goals
- Health, healing and positive thinking – exposing the connection
- Is your why good enough?
- Beat procrastination with rewards
- Negative effect of stress on health
- Watch out for these limiting thoughts and influences
Photography
- Pictures of the day
- Volcano of Krakatau in Indonesia
- Koala bears – real teddy bears
- Different moods of dogs
- Beautiful ceilings
- 20 strange and funny road signs
- Unique moments by National Geographic
SEO / Tech
- Avoid FFA pages to increase link popularity
- I got your password
- Free SEO tools
Series
- Feeding Frenzy – Walter Cronkite, Apollo 11, Entrecard
- Flashback Monday – ebook, new web hosting
- Anti-Social Lists
Social Media
- How to get visitors to your blog cheap with StumbleUpon advertising
- Teens revenge for parents joining Facebook
- Earn income from Mahalo pages?
- 100 Twitter feeds for spiritual enlightenment
- Twittl Twitter tool review
- Athlete Tweets
- 100 Youtube videos to boost your mood
- How to get more valuable followers on Twitter
The Last, but not Least
- Best defense against swine flu is flu defence?
- Happy one year anniversary to Life as I Know It
Follow Friday Recommendations on Twitter
Here are my Follow Friday recommendations.
- @CelebTweeple – Looking for celebrities on Twitter? Check out the tweeple this user follows for a quick way to follow your favorite celebs!
- @runningwolfSA of Running Wolf’s Rant
- @Amzolt of Where I Get My Fuel
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, & the 2nd Largest Aquarium in the World > http://bit.ly/Hrl7F
Week in Review
This week’s main post was the second part of the WordPress Thesis Theme Customization, which focused on plugins to enhance the functionality of my theme. With exception to Thesis Openhook, the plugins listed work for any theme.
Preview for the week of 6 July 2009
Next week, in continuation of the WordPress Thesis Theme Customization series, I will cover the actual coding in the Thesis OpenHook, custom functions and custom styling section that create the menu, Tweetmeme, layout and more on Kikolani.
2nd Largest Aquarium in the World
This video just blew me away. For one, I love manta rays. And the music is perfect. To get the full experience, hit play then pause, and let it load fully before playing it through.
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Nice collection of articles in this weeks Fetching Friday. I have also noticed some new additions as well. Welcome to Fetching Friday all!
Thank you for the link love!
Thank you very much for the bloganniversary gift.
Wow, I must have written my Teen revenge post just in time for this column. Your quick. Many more great resources as usual.
You always have an amazing run through on Fridays. Thank you for the effort and information!
Hi Kristi, if you keep this up people will think of Kikolani instead of twitter when they see #FF. In fact, let me see if I can facilitate that!
I have to say that I missed with my Zebida’s Fridays post, but I am trying to find a wa or an idea to help me publish more often than I do, Thank you for the good links!
I liked the “How to Get Visitors to Your Blog Cheap” post from Frank J.
Kristi,
You have wonderful list here. I will check them all out. I am flattered to be included in it.
Have a great weekend and keep up the fantastic job.
Thank You
Been waiting for this all day. Thanks and keep it up.
Takecare and cheers
Wow Kristi you know I am a huge fan of your Fetching Fridays and have been for a while, I never expected to be included in one. Wow, thank you very much I appreciate you including me.
Stumbled and RT
Sometimes it seems like there are two days in the week
and Monday 
Friday
Hope between now and then you have a great weekend
Thanks so much for adding me and supporting my site
I do appreciate it.
wow…this is quite the list..I am also a huge fan of Fetching Fridays. What a great way to round out the week. Looking forward to checking out all the articles!
Wow!!! great list i like your SEO techniques in above list avoid FFA link is very important thing while you go for link good information thanks for sharing i book mark it!!!
You always put together such a great bunch of links Kristi and it takes way too much of my time to go through them all that I have decided to pick out the most interesting one, to visit the blog and to leave a comment. Today I chose Chings post about the move to Wordpress and I am pretty happy with it. Thanks for supplying the opportunity for another good read.
Thank you Kristy.
Wow! Wow! Wow! I love the video!
Happy weekends:)
Another inspired Fetching Friday. You are blogging as beautifully, technically, and artfully as ever!
The more I read about it, the more I noticed it’s a highly recommended idea for social networking. Fetching Friday could be a trend, I think Jonathan has a point there. We all benefit from your compilation, to read and get discovered by new visitors, I think that’s a great lesson for all of us to share the info/love with each other.
It’s an honor to be picked by Sire.
Thank you, Kristie. If not because of your kind act, I wouldn’t get to know how extraordinary Sire is — gosh, he manages like 9 blogs?? I enjoyed visiting to his site, and that would not happen if not because of Fetching Friday.
Thank you, Kristie. You’re a blessing to all of us.
Its very worthy to read this article. Its very nice very informative and interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
Wow, that aquarium is amazing, the fact that they have multiple whale sharks in there really gives you an idea of how huge it must be, they’re not exactly small fish! I like how the divers in there give it a ‘fishtank in the corner of the living room’ type feel, difference being that these divers are real!
Hi Kristi. Thanks for the shout-out.
And I absolutely love the aquarium vid. Wow! It was so spiritually moving. I’m going to post it too
Thanks again.
Alex
Thanks for this – you somehow manage to catch all the great posts that I miss. My RSS reader is pretty full so I’m loathe to add more. I use you to catch the ones that i miss!
Thanks.
Thanks for the mention! I always enjoy these posts; lots of good stuff to read, and I’ve found a few RSS feeds to follow this way as well. Thanks!
An excellent list as usual, thanks
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