Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & What Social Media Is and Isn’t

by Kristi Hines on April 23, 2010 · 45 comments · Fetching Friday


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

Business / Career / Finance

Facebook

Infographics / Inspiration

Making Money Online

Personal Development / Self Improvement

Photography / Digital Art

Search Engines / SEO / Traffic

Social Media

Software / Security / Tech

Twitter

WordPress

Coming Up on Kikolani

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!

What Social Media Is and Isn’t

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Looking for some link love? Articles featured in the resources come primarily from people I interact with in the comments, and on the social networks. So comment away (DoFollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv enabled), and join me on the networks below, and if your article/photo/video catches my eye, it may appear in following Fetching Friday posts.

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Kiesha from We Blog Better April 23, 2010 at 12:15 pm

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 9:12 pm

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.

mark April 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm

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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Frank Jovine April 23, 2010 at 3:38 pm

Kristi,

One word – spectacular and I spelled it right the first time. :)

Aminul Islam Sajib April 23, 2010 at 5:35 pm

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 9:13 pm

I started Twitter’s own section last week as most of my social media articles were on Twitter. It made sense!

Ileane from Blogging
Twitter:
April 24, 2010 at 1:01 pm

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
.-= New from Ileane@Blogging A Growing List of Top Google Buzz Tips =-.

used tires April 25, 2010 at 3:40 am

I too would love that. :) Recently got into messing with Buzz and seems interesting so far.

Till then,

Jean

Kristi
Twitter:
April 25, 2010 at 6:49 pm

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

Ileane | The Podcast Blog
Twitter:
April 25, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Thanks for the links, I’m looking forward to next Friday already ;)
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Dragon Blogger
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 5:38 pm

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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Tia from BizChick April 23, 2010 at 7:28 pm

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 9:14 pm

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!

Christie April 23, 2010 at 8:04 pm

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 9:15 pm

I hope you it! There’s a Twitter infographic in the above section as well.

Kim April 23, 2010 at 8:18 pm

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 9:17 pm

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!

Ching Ya from Social Media Blogging
Twitter:
April 26, 2010 at 6:43 pm

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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Tom from geoarbitrage April 23, 2010 at 8:38 pm

I always look forward to your weekly lists Kristi! So many new blogs to read and consider following.
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
Twitter:
April 23, 2010 at 11:05 pm

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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Mansoor April 23, 2010 at 11:09 pm

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 25, 2010 at 6:54 pm

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! :)

Karl Foxley April 24, 2010 at 12:01 am

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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Dev | Technshare
Twitter:
April 24, 2010 at 1:56 am

Hey !!
Kristi

Great list and thanks a lot for including my post. I really appreciate it :)

Cheers
Dev

Kok Siong from Cancer Research April 24, 2010 at 2:46 am

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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DiTesco
Twitter:
April 24, 2010 at 6:17 am

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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Gautam Hans from Blog Godown April 24, 2010 at 9:27 am

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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Jennifer April 24, 2010 at 9:49 am

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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Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing
Twitter:
April 24, 2010 at 11:30 am

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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Kristi
Twitter:
April 25, 2010 at 6:56 pm

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.

Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing
Twitter:
April 26, 2010 at 3:19 pm

I would certainly hope twitter would find something as simple as a colon in a years time. lol
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Francisco Rosales April 24, 2010 at 1:34 pm

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
.-= New from Francisco Rosales Is Twitter Killing Blog Subscriptions? =-.

Kristi
Twitter:
April 25, 2010 at 6:58 pm

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!

Davey Havok April 24, 2010 at 6:55 pm

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!

Arafat Hossain Piyada April 26, 2010 at 12:14 am

This day I’m mad about SEO, so SEO section goes to me. Thanks Kikolani. :)
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Sire
Twitter:
April 26, 2010 at 1:03 am

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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John Soares from Time Management Techniques April 26, 2010 at 8:01 am

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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Clara Mathews April 26, 2010 at 11:33 am

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.

Aminul Islam Sajib April 26, 2010 at 2:51 pm

Lovable! I see new addition is Facebook! :D
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Jorgen Sundberg April 27, 2010 at 9:51 am

This is really useful, thanks for sharing and I’ll be sure to tune in every Friday!
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Megan from Online Business Mentors May 14, 2010 at 7:36 am

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

SEO Company May 24, 2010 at 11:22 pm

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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