This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FollowFriday recommendations, some tennis love, 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
- Long live blogging! Free WordPress ebook
- WordPress 2.8 – 10 things you should know before and after you upgrade
- To blog or not to blog that is the question
- What role do you play in blogging?
- 45 useful web design checklists and questionnaires
- 55 creative and unique blog design showcase
- Best RSS submission sites
- 7 perfect WordPress portfolio themes
Tech / SEO
- 20 open source content management systems
- SEO tips for bloggers
- Firefox 3.5 – under the hood
- What is Web 3.0?
- Best Windows freebies – wallpapers, icons, fonts, guides
- SEO experts don’t know jack
Social Media
- 50 free social Twitter resources and icon sets
- Cybercrime spreads on Facebook
- Tweet Funnel – tweet multiple users from a single account
- How to get StumbleUpon traffic
- 70 ways to get more Twitter followers
- Tweeting in the marketplace
Business / Finance
- 5 alternative and fun ways to make money online
- Create a profitable online store in 5 easy steps
- 17 sexy commercials and advertising towards dummies
Weekly Series
- Feeding Frenzy Saturday – Featured blog articles
- Flashback Monday – Good news, great news, killer whale arms?
Personal Development / Growth / Self Improvement / Health
- Relationship between success and failure
- Pay yourself first
- You always have a choice
- How do your explain death to children?
- Can you override genetics?
- Bizarre sleep disorders
Photography
Last, but not Least
- Bloggers unite for a free Iran
- Colbert Report Classic
- The real downward facing dog revealed
- Top 10 tortured artists
- Star Wars wedding cakes
#FollowFriday Recommendations on Twitter
Here are my #followfriday recommendations.
- @yoonsee of Greener Pastures
- @irtiza of Life as I Know It
- @_George_Jetson_ super discoverer from StumbleUpon
- @Killroy_60 of Fear and Loathing
One more shout to last week’s recommendations: @Thesispress and @Konakiko.
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, #FollowFriday, & Some Tennis Love > http://bit.ly/7PLGL
Related News
Personal Creation
This week, I created something personal that I have been wanting to do for a while now. Sarukura is a blog about my grandmother’s family in Japan. I’m hoping that one day, someone will Google names in their family tree and stumble across this site and contact me. I hope to build up a good collection of current Japanese genealogy resources.
Career
On the career front, I have revamped my resume and am in process of creating have finished my online portfolio – Kristi Hines – to hopefully expand my freelance exposure. So far, I have done one project and have two outstanding proposals.
Site Updates
Site design hasn’t changed too much, except for a crash of my social bookmarks plugin. So I resorted to using the Polariod social media icon set and some code from Stratos.me’s post 101 socialble links for manual insertion in WordPress. I had to edit the code to work in the Thesis custom funtions, so instead of <?= the_title();?> I used <?php the_title();?> and instead of <?= the_permalink();?> I used <?php the_permalink(); ?>. I also tinkered with the Polariod icons to change Gmail to email and added Sphinn and Mixx to the set.
A Glowing Review
Today, I was pleasantly surprised to read a very wonderful review of my site along with four other awesome female bloggers over at Bunny Got Blog. So I wanted to say thanks in this post!
Facebook Users
Finally, I am in the quest to get my custom username for my Facebook page, which is based on the number of fans you have. So please, if you haven’t yet and are on Facebook, be a fan of Kikolani.
Week in Review
This week, I bumped the posting back up again with a great guest post on how to get more from Twitter with tips from the Twitter Marketing eBook by Marko Saric. Also, in a continuation of the Benefits of Blogging series, this week I covered the benefits of enhancing learning and strengthening interests including personal examples of ways I use blogging to help with tennis, genealogy research and more.
And I haven’t forgotten… Mt. Lemmon photos will be posted soon!
Preview for the week of 6 July 2009
I took a peek through my backup hard drives and found some interesting photos I took years ago on a business trip to a furniture market in North Carolina. So next week, I will be sharing some of those photos.
Next week, in continuation of the Benefits of Blogging series, I will continue on the learning theme and focus on the various technical and marketing knowledge that bloggers gain.
Tennis Time
The Wimbledon men’s finals are this Sunday! Two of my favorites, Roger Federer and Andy Roddick, are playing, just as I predicted in my Tourney Topia picks! Unfortunately, my favorite female player, Dinara Safina, didn’t make it. So after this weekend, here’s looking toward the US Open!
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The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more
About Kristi Hines
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OMG did Frank finally take a day off. I hope he’s at the local watering hole with some good friends enjoying a cold one.
Well thanks for the mention. It seems like if 5 days go by and we don’t talk it seems like forever
Hope everything is going great. I’m on this little notebook when I get on my desktop( the kids have it sewed up ) I will be sure to come back and stumble
Have an awesome holiday weekend both you and your husband
thanks for the comments on my blog I’m still thinking about that Robot txt.
Happy 4 th Everyone
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Hi Kristi,
I wanted to show my gratitude and appreciation for you and your site.
It is wonderful and so are you.
Have a fun and safe weekend.
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Hi Kristi, looks like you’ve done it again. You set the bar pretty high for anyone publishing a Friday resource collection. I think Fetching Friday pretty much sets the standard. Excellent!
Jonathan – Advanced Life Skillss last blog post..Learning to Celebrate Life!
Kristi – In the house! Awesome array of articles. I bookmarked 3 of them for a later read. Good week in celebration of the 4th!
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Great round up as usual! I really look forward to these every week. Thank you for continuing with this weekly tradition.
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Good resources to read at weekend. I have bookmark this post, i will read it later. Thanks for sharing.
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I have enjoyed the long live blogging e-book, and also the making money fun ideas link!!
I wonder when I will be able to have fun making money, because it’s kind of stressing sometimes when you try to push thing to work good for you and discover that you need more and more time!
great links by the way!
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Thank you very much for your time and effort gathering material for these Friday briefs. They are very useful, resourceful and I look forward to read them every week.
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Fantastic Kristi. I am a big fan of your blog. Everything is always so informative, and couldn’t be said better. My blog is your blog. What do I mean? Well, everything I do has some sort of correlation with yours. Your blog is an inspiration!
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I joined up on your fanbook page. I know you’ll hit 100 real soon.
You have some great resources here. I love the wide variety.
Karl Staib – Work Happy Nows last blog post..The Target in the Bull(y)’s Eye
Hi Kristi,
Nice resources on Friday i follow most of things and love your paragraph Tens time and very impressive with how to get traffic from stumble upon !!!
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A wealth of content to review once again, you certainly like to keep your readers busy each weekend! I like the look of the Polaroid icon set for your bookmark links, I can’t honestly remember how the old ones looked but these are defintiely toward the better looking end of the scale compared to some I see used elsewhere.
On the Tennis front, I wanted Roddick to win but that didn’t work out so well, still at least it was a good match!
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I heard that they turned down #followfriday because people were spamming using followfriday, as far as what I read!
Finally get the chance to drop a few words after days of occupied schedules.
Congrats on getting your career profile ready, and I like the way you portrayed your expertise and interests. Very well done, prompt me to have a freelance profile of my own. Wish you best in your career, and thanks for making sure Fetching Friday is still up to date even during your busy schedule.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
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Kristi, forgot to say before that Sarukura looks great, a perfect choice of theme! I notice you have made a few tweaks here and there which have improved it further, good work.
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Hi Kristi,
Just a quick comment to say thanks very much for putting this list together. Some excellent reading. I can never remember what I Stumble so you’re much more organised than me!
Cheers,
Gregor
Hisham,
This is a great way to share the love! You also have a lot of sites
-Kai
I need help with this. What do you love about tennis? What do you love about AUSTRALIAN tennis? the heat? The arena’s?