This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a video from TED on creativity, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging / Writing
- Stop launching blogs and start contributing to them
- KeywordLuv – How it benefits us all
- 6 tips to get traffic to new blogs
- How to enhance your blog comments – create a conversation
- Overcome creativity blocks with these offline changes
Business / Finance
- Marketing or advertising your business
- Small business marketing trends for 2010
- Blogging for business basics
- Hiring an accountant or Turbo Tax to file your taxes
- Tips to start a small business blog
Graphic / Web Design
- 50 restaurant and recipe web designs
- Showcase of city tourism websites
- Email newsletter design – guidelines and examples
- 50 fresh design blogs you should be reading
Make Money Online
- The ultimate guide to PPC affiliate marketing
- 5 money making tips for newbies
- Is automated blogging a true business opportunity?
- Bloggers guide to legal, accounting, and FTC guidelines
- 10 questions to learn your niche
- Are there any writing for money sites worth joining?
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health
- How to use your subconscious to change your life
- How enthusiasm was sabotaging my results
- 8 helpful ways to deal with critical people
- Introvert friends – the perfect fit
- 7 ways to improve your social life
Photography / Digital Art
- 35 spectacular action photographs
- 20 long exposure photography examples
- Photography on the Earth’s Poles – 50 beautiful examples
- Beautiful wildlife photography
Search Engines / SEO
- Pull your SEO together with Scribe
- Link stealing – how to get webmasters to thank you for a link request
- SEO cheat sheets and tools
- Nifty guide to reviews and local search
- Blog links that bring traffic not trouble
Social Media
- 39 social media tools I use today
- Brand, market and manage Twitter with MarketMe Tweet
- 7 reasons not to put all your eggs in the Twitter basket
- 4 steps for managing social media attention
- Social media age distribution stats
Tech / Security
- Why you should turn off Microsoft auto updates
- Email sanity
- 10 things I hate about my Motorola Droid
- 10 Chrome extensions to double productivity
WordPress
- How to integrate Google Buzz into a WordPress blog
- WordPress SEO tips and tricks
- Creating a quality WordPress theme – 12 points to consider
- 3 SEO friendly plugins to display featured posts
- WordPress 2.9.2 released
Coming Up on the Kikolani Network
Next week, I have an interesting guest post about how bloggers can use online marketing tips to make money online as well as an article on how to make sure people know what you are about when they find you online.
On Creativity
I saw a post on the TED experience and was reminded of this video I saw with Amy Tan speaking about creativity. Just something to open your minds and creative spirits.
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Once again, fantastic list! I have some great new blogs to read now, and am sure to add quite a few of them to my RSS reader.
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Wonderful list as always. I’ve warmed up to these post over time and you’ve helped fill my Delicious bookmarks with some wonderful items.
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Such a great list, Kristi! I was just about to click on the very first one in Blogging/Writing and work my way down but I noticed you included my post in the Personal Development section so I wanted to stop and thank you. Now back to this awesome list – time to read!
Have a great weekend!
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This is getting crazy. I haven’t even started looking at this weeks resources, and I am already looking forward to next weeks guest post. It’s a bad case of Fetching Friday Fever.
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Twitter: FamousBloggers
February 19, 2010 at 12:57 pm
I found my self interested in webdesign this week even more than making money online, there is a coming project I am working on
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Something to consider, Kristi: It would be nice to see the source of each of your links and some commentary in a sentence or two elaborating why you find the content valuable enough to share with us.
I can click links to figure out if valuable to me, but you’re sharing for a reason and I’m always curious why.
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Ari, as many links as she’s putting out, and as often as she’s doing it, let’s just be satisfied with what she’s already giving us. We always seem to want more, even when we’re getting stuff for free.
Thanks again for a wonderful list, Kristi.
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You must’ve missed my introductory three words of something to consider.
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Nope, I didn’t miss them.
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February 21, 2010 at 1:16 am
I’m with Mitch, I think Kristi’s putting a whole lot of work into these posts just by sourcing the links and categorizing them for us. I know she has a lot on her plate and I am more than happy with her efforts.
Another great series of article collection. Well Kristy how you collect all of blog post? I also thinking for making one weekly series on my blog.
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Hey Kristi, thanks for featuring my article on dealing with critical people! I hope your readers find it helpful. Great Fetching Friday once again! Thanks for sharing the video with Amy Tan – I really enjoyed it. I was very impressed by how she presented the whole content too – extremely engaging.
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That is really a fantastic list – it will take several days to get through all these resources. I’m not even sure where to start – Google Buzz WordPress integration or the photography resources. Hey thanks!
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Kristi, Awesome list as always! Some i have read..and some not…Will get t o all of them over the weekend.
One question Kristi…At the moment i am on wordpress.com and was thinking about shifting to my own domain name. Wordpress.com offers a forwarding mapping facility. What i was wondering is that if i do change my domain name…will that affect my existing google ranks and will that also affect all the incoming links to the blog?
Much love,
Z~
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Page rank is meaningless, so don’t worry about that. If you provide online content that is dynamic and that people like, comment on, and link to, then search engines notice it.
As far as your second question, if you change an existing link, then people would link to the old, not the new.
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February 21, 2010 at 10:06 am
Thank you for including the Extreme Ezine. Great list of sites and resources.
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February 21, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Another amazing list as usual, but I’m really looking forward to those two guest posts.
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February 21, 2010 at 1:07 pm
RE: Guest posts – as long as I’m here, I’ll ask…do you look for anything specific? One topic over another kinda thing?
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Twitter: kikolani
February 23, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Not particularly… I’ll take a guest post on anything that fits with the blogging & social media theme. I like giving an outside perspective to readers here.
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February 24, 2010 at 2:45 am
I like the article about keywordluv. I am using it on my website and it really spreads the luv among bloggers. It is really a great wordpress plug-in to use.
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I love Ted talks. Thanks for reminding me of Amy Tans talk on creativity. I especially love her idea that creativity is a combination of Nature, Nurture and Nightmares.
Your Fetching Fridays always have a slew of cool stuff I like. Thanks.
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I have been so out of touch the last few weeks due to my brick and mortar business’s FINALLY being in season, this is going to be a great start to getting caught up on things as it always is. Thank you Kristi.
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Nice list. I especially appreciate the link to growmap.com
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wow nice resources again on Friday post i book mark your post i like the concept of enhance your blog comment and nice explain here and great tips for increassing traffic in blog thanks Kristi!!!
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