This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, week in review at kikolani.com, and getting off your computer and exercising.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- 6 ways to create link magnets with every blog post
- How bloggers can prepare for the future of journalism
- Blogging / sales experiment followup
- 3 fail proof rules for creating a viral post
- 13 steps to successful blogging
- 101 ways to promote a new blog
- Lazy blogger’s guide to the ultimate WordPress plugins
- 5 WordPress pluginsyou never heard of
Business / Finance
- Starting your own business does not have to be risky
- The human brain in the workplace
- 5 mobile marketing ideas for your small business
- 15 podcasts that will make you richer
Graphic / Web Design
- Mistakes to avoid while designing your landing page
- 30 high quality photo effects every designer will love
- Devlisting – Web developer resources
- 40 incredibly useful web design tools you should use daily
- Best of free HTML email / newsletter templates
Making Money Online
- 800 top paying Adsense keywords for November
- Three ways to increase your ad space earnings
- Using affiliate tools to your advantage
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health
- How to kill interruptions and prevent new ones
- Are you journaling for success or failure
- How to bring your shooting star down to earth
- Should you trust your intuition?
- Lazy man’s guide to beating procrastination
- What does midlife mean to you?
- Lifestyle design
- Make peace with time
- How your beliefs create your reality, part I
- 3 things necessary for success that the school system neglected to teach
Photography / Digital Art
- Beautiful pictures from the Ezzal collection
- 70 strange photos that are not photoshopped
- 30 stunning inspriational digital artworks
- 70 beautiful macro photos of insects
SEO
- Where did Google’s organic search results go?
- 30 SEO problems and the tools to solve them
Social Media
- The boom of social sites
- Networked blogs now supports Facebook fan pages
- Twitter lists – I’m not down
- 5 reasons Twitter is not worth your dime
- Why joining 38,943 people is bad
- Six social media trends for 2010
- Seesmic desktop the first to integrate Twitter lists
- Calling all freelancers on Twitter
- How to be a star employee on social media
- Tips to building a Facebook branding strategy
- Facebook is no longer sacred
Tech
- 45 timesaving keyboard shortcuts for Gmail
- 12 free tools that alert you to useful information
- How to remove fake antivirus software
- Have you gotten your Google Wave invitation?
- 5 Google Wave gadgets you will most likely use
- Install free programs at once on Windows 7
Writing
- Guidelines to self-publishing
- 7 reasons your press release sucks
- Quentin Tarantino guide to creating killer content
Week in Review
This week on Kikolani, a reivew of the new Twitter Lists feature, including some pros, cons and lots of great responses by the commenters.
Getting Off the Computer and Exercising
“Sometimes your greatest joy comes from getting off the computer and exercising outside every once in awhile.”
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Wow, LOTS of very interesting stuff to read this week. I don’t know whether to start with blogging or personal development or… This is such a great resource, so many sites I didn’t know about. Thank you for including my post!
.-= Christie´s last blog ..How to kill interruptions and prevent new ones from hatching =-.
Thanks for including a link to my blog post as well as sharing the video.
Have a great weekend ahead!
.-= Wayne Liew´s last blog ..Interview with Ali Pena, CEO of Forums Event Design & Production =-.
Twitter: Mike_hts
November 6, 2009 at 9:54 am
Another Fetching Friday Home Run. Interesting new section on Making Money Online – excellent addition. Love the exercise routine
Lots of great resources and links to dig into. Thanks Kristi.
.-= Mike´s last blog ..Gmail – 45 Timesaving Keyboard Shortcuts =-.
Those macro photos of insects almost make insects look appealing – I still think they’re gross and will squash them as needs be.
The SEOMoz post on “30 SEO Problems” has been bookmarked: that looks like it is very valuable stuff, just hope I can put it to use.
.-= ashok´s last blog ..Briefly Noted: Plato’s “Menexenus” =-.
Twitter: FamousBloggers
November 6, 2009 at 11:28 am
I was waiting for this post this week to check the making money links, very useful Kristi, I needed to read more because of the blog! Thanks!
.-= Hesham´s last blog ..Have you got your Google Wave invitation? then defiantly you need Firefox Add-on Notifier =-.
Kristi, You should get some kind of “Highest Quality” award. I there a link here for that?
.-= Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills´s last blog ..How Your Beliefs Create Your Reality part 1 =-.
Kristi,
Awesome list! As always you are amazing in finding these little jewels.
Have a great weekend!
.-= Frank J´s last blog ..How to Create BlackBerry Ringtones =-.
Very interesting posts that some people created this week. I did some link walking for some of them.
Thanks Greg Ellison
.-= Greg Ellison´s last blog ..Picture Friday Out House Style =-.
Fantastic selections you have here. I can’t wait to start reading them.
Hope you have a great weekend!
.-= BunnygotBlog´s last blog ..12 On Blogging: Katie Clemons, “Making This Home” =-.
Thanks for the link Kristi. As always, I appreciate it.
.-= Karlil´s last blog ..The Lazy Man’s Guide To Beating Procrastination =-.
wow great resources again i agree with you Kristi this is time for social media it’s boom of social site i seen lots of new site in this industry, nice post thanks Kristi…
Hey Kristi,
Another gem. Thanks for the link love, always appreciated. Lifestyle design is really something important to me. As for the video, that was amazing, I just couldn’t believe I didn’t think at this first. Exercising outside, what a bliss
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.-= Dragos Roua´s last blog ..Lifestyle Design =-.
Twitter: AussieSire
November 7, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Great mashup and a Cool clip. I wonder if he blogs between sets?
.-= Sire´s last blog ..The Child Of God =-.
Thanks Kristi for yet another compilation of wonderful resources. You really have a way of picking the best of the best, so I’m honored to be included in this wee’s mashup.
One of my favorites was “70 strange photos that are not photoshopped,” but there were so many others that I enjoyed. Keep up the good work.
.-= Nea | Self Improvement Saga´s last blog ..Are You Journaling for Self Development Success or Failure? =-.
I would have to agree with Nea, as the 70 strange photos was my favorite as well. Those were some really cool strange pics over at 10steps and there were a lot I hadn’t seen. I thought the perspective ones with the clouds and such were pretty neat and even though that is done a lot, they were still really original.
.-= Steve´s last blog ..Choosing a Safe Standing Aid =-.
Hi Kristi,
Great list as always. One of your links isn’t working, as it seems the web page has disappeared: 5 WordPress pluginsyou never heard of
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Do Images Increase Readership? =-.
again great resources here i love 101 ways for promoting new blog really great help for me, Pretty comprehensive list there! i use it thanks for sharing!!!
.-= SEO Company´s last blog ..Zimbra Email Hosting : Integrates Latest Technologies =-.
Such an awesome list!!! I am just itching to dig in
Hopefully these articles will make me a better person, blogger and geek..all rolled up in one
.-= Zeenat{Positive Provocations}´s last blog ..Do you really Think??? =-.
Nice list. I am going to take a look at some of those Self Improvement links….particularly the one about ‘how to kill interruptions’. I can get sidetracked easily so any interruption is not a good one for me.
.-= Paula from Affiliate Blog Online´s last blog ..How We Tripled Our Blog Traffic =-.
Twitter: erenmckay
November 11, 2009 at 8:36 am
Hi Kristi,
Once again thanks so much for this great resource. I definitely will go around and read them. I loved that video – so hilarious and so true
All the best,
Eren
.-= Eren Mckay´s last blog ..How to make friends online =-.
This is a great mash-up that’s full of links useful articles. I’ve read some and reviewed them. The others will be on my weekend reading list. Thanks so much for doing this on a weekly basis. I appreciate it.
.-= timethief´s last blog ..Technorati and HubSpot Blog Grade =-.
Twitter: DennisEdell
November 22, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Dang I didn’t even notice, thanks Kristi!
.-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..How Do You Feel About A Static Homepage On A Blog? =-.
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