This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, what social media is (and isn’t), and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.
Blogging / Writing
- How to create a blog post idea incubator
- Huge list of 120 compelling headlines for your blog
- How unsociable is your blog?
- 5 reasons readers like numbers in a headline
- 5 old blogging rules that are killing your readership
Business / Career / Finance
- 12 ways to market your brand better
- What if the US regulated internet marketing?
- 13 ways to position yourself as a trusted source
- 10 tools for the freelancers toolkit
- 7 ways your business can help the environment
- How to add the new Facebook like button to WordPress blog posts and websites
- How to encourage people to fan (now like) your Facebook page with custom content
- 6 useful Facebook productivity tips
- 3 important things about the Facebook like button
- How to protect your personal information on Facebook
Infographics / Inspiration
- Free online tools to spice up your Twitter background
- 27 blog designs with amazing design and functionality
- Showcase of web design in the Netherlands
- Zombie inspirations
- 8 useful infographics on Twitter stats
Making Money Online
- 20 top young entrepreneur blogs
- 10 creative ways to make money blogging
- Why you should become a niche blogger
- Does a negative attitude = negative bank account?
- How bloggers can make money online with affiliate products and holiday promotions
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- Who do you think you are?
- What is your perfect day?
- 7 daily inspiration messages
- Allow gratitude to transform your life
- 5 tips to reduce stress and increase productivity
Photography / Digital Art
- Sell your photography, not your soul
- 30 new tutorials for manipulating photos in Photoshop
- 40 jaw dropping photo manipulations
- 77 stunning photographs to refresh your mind
- 40 photos of lovable babies
Search Engines / SEO / Traffic
- Google releases best SEO tips ever
- SEO Doctor Firefox addon – a new feature rich SEO plugin
- How to boost your SEO with a YouTube channel
- Blogging guide – increase traffic and Google crawl rate
- Link building pet peeves
Social Media
- 8 enhancments to LinkedIn’s sharing feature to make your content sexier
- 8 ways to manage up for social media success
- 10 social media monitoring tools to see your brand’s performance and results
- 2010 social media marketing industry report
- Is your life interrupted by social media?
Software / Security / Tech
Twitter WordPress Next week, I have some guest posts on how to self promote on social media without being a narcissist and if your content is in need of a refresh. Stay tuned!
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About Kristi Hines
Kikolani covers blog marketing and blogging tips for personal, professional, and business bloggers to succeed in search and social media marketing. Kristi Hines is a 
Hi Kristi!
Thanks for the mention here! That was an awesome guest post from Jonathan Brill – he really stirred things up this week!
I wish you an amazing weekend!
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I just discovered your blog a few weeks ago via the weekly roundup – it’s a great site! I hope you have a good weekend too.
Hi Kristi,
This is a great list and I really appreciate you including one of icebluebanana.com’s posts in there!
Have a great weekend!
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Kristi,
One word – spectacular and I spelled it right the first time.
Good collection. This week I’m noticing some new articles stumbled upon and added here under the sub-title of “Twitter”. Good, I like twitter because of its simplicity and speediness.
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I started Twitter’s own section last week as most of my social media articles were on Twitter. It made sense!
Hi Kristi, nice job as usual. Do you think you’ll ever include any Buzz related posts in your social media category? I’d love to find some good Buzz posts.
Thanks!
@Ileane
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I too would love that.
Recently got into messing with Buzz and seems interesting so far.
Till then,
Jean
I will keep this in mind – honestly, I don’t use Buzz that much, but I will make an effort for next week to be on the lookout for some posts on their service.
Here’s some good resources on Buzz on some popular social media sites:
http://mashable.com/tag/google-buzz/
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/google-buzz/
http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/tag/google-buzz/
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?s=google+buzz
Thanks for the links, I’m looking forward to next Friday already
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Really great list of sites, I shall try to visit each of them sometime this weekend. (The ones I haven’t yet)
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I got this message on my blackberry and couldn’t wait to come back here and comment and check them all out. What an awesome list and I’m sure it took some time to pull it together, so for that I say, thanks!
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It usually either takes about 10 – 15 minutes per day throughout the week, or about an hour and a half if I wait till Thursday night. I enjoy it as I get to catch up on the great articles of the week as well!
Kristi – thanks for including a MiscBytes link in this post! Although I see about 15 posts I want to read “immediately,” I know which section I’m diving into first tonight – Twitter!
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I hope you it! There’s a Twitter infographic in the above section as well.
Thanks for the link Kristi – so many other great ones to go through.
I was wondering whether to go through older article and change fan to like but decided it really wasn’t worth it. Once I changed them, Facebook would have renamed it again
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Probably so. We were just discussing this at work – how there are so many changes in social media sites that make write about it hard because you never know how soon what you say will be made obsolete by a new change. Even newly published books on Facebook are now all wrong!
Exactly. There are pros and cons of such massive changes. I was just wondering how do we address ‘People who Like’ in shorter form. Likers? Is that even grammatically correct? ;P
Thank you for including my article, Kristi.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
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I always look forward to your weekly lists Kristi! So many new blogs to read and consider following.
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Kristi,
You got to stop doing this!
I got up early today to finish a client’s work and now I am distracted by these great links! I just have to look at the majority of them (I did like the YouTube channel one – great SEO tips there).
Now I won’t have time to go shopping with my wife – oh, that’s good isn’t it?
So, on second thoughts – keep doing it!
Andrew
P.S. Loved the video as well – really sums up Social Media (which most of us get wrong!).
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Andrew! LOL.. First of all you should finish your work! Then have a look at these links. No doubt these are just so effective! And without any argument Kristi is doing awesome job!
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I really can’t stop – it’s an addiction! I hope that you find a good way to balance reading time, client work, and personal commitments though. It’s tough, but well worth it in the end!
Another great round-up and another morning lost to reading some great articles. Well, the return-on-investment is all that extra usable information that I’ll have.
Always a pleasure to work my way through your posts Kristi!
Karl
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Hey !!
Kristi
Great list and thanks a lot for including my post. I really appreciate it
Cheers
Dev
Hi Kristi! Among the resources, i love to read the Top 20 Young Entrepreneur blogs and 2 Great WordPress Plugins to Find Your Blog Most Powerful Page. I really get inspired from the article of Top Young entrepreneur. Thanks for your sharing!
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Yet another great roundup Kristi. Thanks for the mention and I hope all is well with you. Have a great weekend. I’ll be visiting some of the posts above and if I leave any comments, I’ll tell them you sent me:)
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Thanks for the link love.
Kristi, Liked your guest article on vertical measures.
Great, I will look forward to the guest articles.
Tweeted
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I think this week’s Fetching Friday might be your best ever. There are so many articles listed here that I don’t know when I’ll get to them all. I’m bookmarking this post so I can keep going back to it.
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Kristi,
Thanks for posting Gail’s article concerning my issue with Twitter; apparently happening for over a year and very disconcerting, especially to the newly signed.
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That was the first I’ve heard of it, but at the same time, I feel like I have seen some issues where I don’t get the @reply to show up in my mentions, but I can find them in searches. I always thought it had something to do with people who put a colon at the end of the username, like @kikolani: – maybe that made them hidden.
I would certainly hope twitter would find something as simple as a colon in a years time. lol
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Hi Kristi, so much great content that sometimes we just miss stuff, thanks for putting all these resources together. I’m particularly curious about reading how to setup the “Like” button on posts.
Have a great weekend
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You’re welcome. I’ve been doing this for awhile now, and it’s always a good thing for me too, as it forces me to keep up to date on what’s being talked about elsewhere. It can be a great source of future writing inspiration!
wow that must have taken many hours to compile that post. It would take me at least an hour to read through them all. I did click on several. I really liked the 20 young entreprenuer post. Now I have 20 more blogs to check out!
This day I’m mad about SEO, so SEO section goes to me. Thanks Kikolani.
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Hi Kristi, out of your great selection of links I decided to check out the one about the five old blogging rules that may be killing my readership. I must say I found it to be an interesting read so I left a comment there in appreciation.
Thanks for all you effort in keeping Fetching Friday alive.
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Kristi, I actually spend most of the weekend having fun, but I really appreciate all of these links and am busy looking at the most intriguing ones.
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This is an incredible list of resources. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. The posts 10 tools for the freelancers toolkit and How to encourage people to fan (now like) your Facebook page with custom content were very useful to me.
Lovable! I see new addition is Facebook!
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This is really useful, thanks for sharing and I’ll be sure to tune in every Friday!
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Thanks for the list. I can’t wait to read the link building pet peeves. I am going to go look at your YouTube channel.
You offer great service here! Looking forward to reading more from you Kristi!
Megan
thanks you kristi for huge resources book mark this post, i am finding this thing many time but today i got it…i try to unsubscribe some post but the sent again and again mail here is lot’s of informative post on how unsubscribe…
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