This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, the best week ever, and what is coming up next week on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- 100 tips on how to write a huge list post
- How to write the most powerful post
- 7 productive things to do when you can’t blog
- Double your traffic by distributing content into different mediums
- Create a blog that promises success
Business / Career / Finance
- How to get to the next level of success in your online business
- 3 ways to market yourself without business cards
- 30 minutes a day online marketing tips
- What is a good starting budget for an online business?
- Businesses can help Foursquare survive
Graphic / Web Design
- What every bloggers should know about design before buying a theme
- 40 examples of typography inspired in web design
- Showcase of web design in Germany
- 45 jQuery navigation plugins and tutorials
- 6 goals to reach when designing your next website
Make Money Online
- My take on having ads on your blog
- 5 C’s of affiliate marketing
- The blogger’s guide to becoming rich instead of just famous
- Is it easy to make money online?
- Are your Adsense revenues dropping and how to maximize Adsense income
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- How to defrag your mind in 5 easy steps
- How to overcome fear
- How to resolve conflicts with people
- Be selective about your activities
- Why I parted ways wiwth my best friend of 10 years
Photography / Digital Art
- 25 easy to use photo sharing sites
- 36 vibrant and colorful photographs by Hougaard Malan
- Amazing animal and nature photography by Scott Sutlberg
- 26 amazing photographs of waterfalls by location
- 30 capivating fire dance photos
SEO / Website Optimization
- Yahoo updating search
- Google is taking content from your site through rich snippets
- What is Alexa rank and how does it work?
- Unleashing the power of website analytics
- How search engines find your content
Social Media
- How to create an outstanding Facebook fan page and drive traffic
- 5 powerful steps to optimize your business on LinkedIn
- StumbleUpon etiquette guide and how to share in mass again
- HootSuite – the perfect Twitter client for business
- How to suck at Facebook
Tech
- Powerline computer networking
- 25 Firefox addons for bloggers
- 10 helpful websites you’ve never heard of
- Apple iPad – everything you need to know
- Replace your lost cellphone charger for free
WordPress
- Making WordPress mobile friendly
- 30 oustanding commercial WordPress portfolio and photoblog themes
- WordPress plugin to view a random post
- 17 important things to do after staring your WordPress blog
- How to add a RSS feed to a post or page using WordPress shortcode
Best Week Ever
This week has been really exciting. Monday I attended the Social Media AZ event in Tempe and learned a lot of valuable information on blogging, social media, and SEO thanks to a great selection of speakers. Wednesday, I woke up to a comment from Fred von Graf, founder of SMAZ, that I won a trip to Mexico for a tweet contest on the Worst Social Media Fail of 2009, which I believe is businesses who use social media as a one way advertising platform instead of two way conversation between them and their community. And today, I woke up to congratulatory tweets because I was voted in the Top 10 Social Media Blogs list with other social media experts such as Mashable, Jay Baer, and Amber Naslund. So all in all, a great week in the world of social media and blogging!
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Coming Up on the Kikolani Network
Since I didn’t get to my post on using social bookmarking networks for information collecting in lieu of my recap of SMAZ, it is on the agenda for next week. I was waiting on a guest post to come through before I announced the other major post of next week, but it has yet to appear. Never fear, I will come up with something good if it doesn’t.
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Ah, the perfect Friday lunch.. A great Fetching Friday post just full of wonderful stuff I can read while I eat my soup! Thanks so much for including my post.
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Oh, and I forgot – CONGRATULATIONS! The trip is awesome enough, but to be part of the Top 10 Social Media Blogs, being alongside Mashable and Chris Brogan – that is outstanding!
Thanks… it has been an exciting week!
Congratulations on this major week for Kikolani.com. This recognition is well-deserved! Your blog is an essential must read for anyone starting their social media campaigns or just want to know what the heck social media actually is. Great job!
Thanks so much for the kind words, both on here and on IM this afternoon.
Congratulations for ranking so high at that contest: i closely watched it and I was glad to see my vote wasn’t in vain
Again, thanks so much for the link love. I must say that keeping the posts to a max of 5 makes them much more digestible. Not to mention that this constraint will force you to select only the best posts.
Have a great week-end
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Well thank you for voting! Honestly, I thought cutting it down to 5 posts in each topic would make the process quicker, but it actually still takes the same amount of time because of that selection – having to go with the top 5 in each category. It’s a difficult decision to make!
Another great collection of links and resources. Plus I always enjoy the Fetching Friday Videos. Consistently interesting.
What a great week you had! Congratulations on scoring a spot on the Top 10 Social Media Blogs. Well deserved.
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Thanks! I always try to look for something interesting. I figure it’s the last thing in a post leading to the weekend, so I like to start it with something fun, cool, awe inspiring or relaxing.
Another good week, Kristi. Didn’t make it this time, but I still enjoy seeing this one every week.
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You know, it’s really though limiting to 5. There are still posts I would like to include but can’t. I do have a plan in mind to take care of that coming soon though.
Hi Kristi
I have been kicking back and ready to regroup after that BloggerLUV set back but it’s all good. I learned more about databases that’s for sure.
Awesome
A hour into Friday I was thinking about this post. Then saw people coming to my blog from my link you included
Was real happy to see you on that list of Top Social Media Blogs
Have a great weekend Kristi /everybody
Thanks
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It’s tough setting up a new site, especially considering you’re not just dealing with it for yourself, but for a group. We’ll all be there when it’s back up and running again!
I really enjoyed the Blogging articles this week, especially the one from myblog2day.com. I’d never heard of Odiogo until reading this article and I’m impressed.
I also really benefited from your article on making WordPress mobile friendly. As always, Fetching Friday rocks.
Thanks for including my self improvement article on overcoming fear in your marvelous list.
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You’re welcome. I had to include your article, as overcoming fear is something I’m working on for myself.
how awesome! Congratulations on everything! That would make an incredible week wouldn’t it, and you are most deserving of it all. I’ve watched you take this blog from what it was before Thesis, to this, and I am very, very impressed and inspired as well by all you’ve done here.
I’m not blowing sunshine either, I mean that. lol
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It’s nice to know someone has watched this site from the beginning and stuck with it in the evolution process. Thanks so much!
Congratulations Kristi on your achievement. It’s always good to see friends being rewarded for all the hard work that they’ve done.
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Thanks! I really didn’t know that my site meant so much in the social media realm, so it is nice to know that people went and voted so I could make that list.
Kristi,
Nice work and keep on writing!
I see John is in the house – How to write the most powerful post.
Hi Kristi. Thank you very much for including my post in this awesome list! I really appreciate it. By the way, congratulations to you on being voted as one of the top 10 social media blogs of 2010!
You deserve it!
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I too would like to extend my congratulations to you Kristi for a job well done.
I find myself getting fond at this Friday posts because of the resources that I know provides some real meat. I mean, Kristi won’t just make a list of links that are rehashes of several other old posts you find anywhere. As I’m interested in SEO at this time, I find the entries under ‘SEO / Website Optimization’ very useful. Thanks.
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Hey Kristi,
Congrats once again.
Congrats…WOW…i always feel very happy when a fellow female blogger gets recognition…And well deserved recognition
And thank you for this weeks list of awesome reads. Am getting to them right now…Believe m you have made me SEO and social blogging friendly. This coming from a gal who had no idea what on earth a blog was 1 year back …;)
Much Love,
Z~
Hey Kristi, thanks for the link love! The post was guested post by Melvin, so the credit goes to him.
Regards,
Lee
You are really good at this. Another great list of links. I especially liked “having ads on your blog”, I personally just recommend products and post ads of products which I have tried and found out to be good.
amazing Mashup Kristi. I would like to say that u make, my work simpler by making a list of the best posts. Thanks for the link love
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In response to 7 productive things you can do when not blogging (great find, by the way) –
I find that exercise and brainstorming are great when paired together. I go jogging and try to think of new blog ideas and new ways of connecting to my visitors.
I’ll be looking at the other links you posted later when I have more time. thanks Kristi!
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Yes Kristi i want say thanks for nice video now i like the blogging tips How to write the most powerful post blogging is just posting what is your thoughts, want to share ideas, and tell some experiences and without using SEO!!!
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