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Fetching Friday – Web 2.0 At the Bookstore, Twitter Resources

by Kristi on March 13, 2009 · 15 comments

This week’s Fetching Friday includes Web 2.0 resources at the bookstore and lots of Twitter resources. Also, check out previews for next week and related news about recent changes to this site.

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9 Ways to Use Social Networking for Blog Promotion

by Kristi on February 23, 2009 · 90 comments

In one of my most popular posts, The Blogging Process, I compiled a list of things I do to keep kikolani.com running, including prep work for posts, social media promotion, bookmarking, interacting with readers, and other technical updates. This article focuses specifically on using social networking for blog promotion. Unless your blog is purely personal in nature and only meant to be shared with family and close friends, chances are you want to bring in more readers. Because what is the point of putting your thoughts online if you have no audience? And if your motives for blogging are fiscally driven to create a secondary source of income, or at least to cover the costs domain renewals and hosting services, then it is going to take a lot of traffic to bring in the revenue.


Read more to find out the 9 ways I use social networking to promote my blog, in order of the networks that bring in the most amount of traffic for this site.

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Thursday Things

by Kristi on November 20, 2008 · 14 comments

Thursday things – the I Love Your Blog Award, my first guest post, useful Web 2.0 Resources, and YouTube favorites.

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Explaining Web 2.0 Features

by Kristi on October 14, 2008 · 43 comments

One thing I have noticed in my first few months of blogging is that I receive a lot of feedback, in terms of commenting, bookmarking, and subscribing, from people who also blog. But not so much from people I know in real life who do not. The more information provided to visitors about the features of your website, the better response you will receive from them.

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The Blogging Process

by Kristi on October 2, 2008 · 50 comments


When I first started blogging, I thought that all I had to do was design my site, post great content, tell a few friends, and I would have a relatively popular site in no time. Little did I realize then all the things I would be doing now. In not-so-particular order, here are the almost daily things I do to keep my blog running at full steam.

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