20 Aug 2010 – Several weeks back I did an unconventional blogger Follow Friday post that was very enjoyable, so I decided to do it again (ahhh, endorphins).
This time, I am throwing in the term our circle because if you’ve been watching closely and paying attention to who’s blogging and who’s commenting, you’ll start to seen an ever-growing circle emerge. It morphs, of course, and changes, and will continue to grow, but it is a circle nonetheless.
I appreciate everyone who reads this blog so much and hope to continue to be useful, motivational, and supportive. If I left anyone out, it was definitely not intentional – just leave a comment so I can remember next time! Have a great weekend, everybody!
Follow Friday: 13 Posts to re-read, bookmark, and share on Twitter if you haven’t already. Pay it forward, people! 
Development/Growth
- The Power of Questions: How Asking Can Help You Rock Your (Digital) Life – Awesome post – Mars Dorian takes a look at how and why we should ask more questions in order to get ahead in business and life.
- How to Get Off the Meltdown City Express: Got too much on your plate and getting ready to implode? Check out this great post at VirginBloggerNotes, because some of us have been there and sooo done that!
- How Do Entrepreneurs and Solo Proprietors Juggle All Those Balls? Sherryl Perry of Keep Up with the Web talks about the challenges entrepreneurs and solo proprietors face when we have to wear so many hats (and juggle so many balls).
- The Road to Success: How do you keep yourself going? What motivates you? Julius over at And Break! talks (briefly) about staying motivated when it seems like success is out of reach.
Networking/Blogging Alliance
- Take Time to Show Kindness to Fellow Bloggers: Evelyn Parham gives a little tough love here; are you taking the time to reciprocate the favors other bloggers are showing you? Hmmmm???
Blogging Tools/Tips
- 3 Ways to Keep Readers on Your Site Using Apture: Great, concise review of Apture and the features that you could use to improve average time on site and reader engagement.
- Back To Your Roots: When does catering to your readers become detrimental to your intentions as a blogger? Wayne Howard brings up some good points based on the Become a Better Listener post. I like this one, because it’s sometimes very easy for people to write about things that get a lot of comments, like social media and SEO, even though that has nothing to do with their blog or target readers. Ya dig?
- Is the iPad Good for Blogging? What do you think? Kristi breaks it down by posting links to some positive and negative reviews of iPad and asks for your opinion, too.
- Blogger Tools that Every Blogger Needs to Use: From the list, I’d say BlogGrader.com was the standout tool to me. I’ve used it now and love it. You will, too.
- Will a Popup Increase Mailing List Subscription Rates? Everyone is using Popup Domination, it seems. Does it work? Justin sheds some light.
SEO
- When Is #1 Google Ranking Yours to Lose? When you’ve got a sucky domain name, that’s when. Ana’s guest post over at Famous Bloggers gives some good advice regarding how to choose a domain worthy of search engine attention.
Making Money
- The Ultimate Guide for Making Money Online: I like Kathy’s post since she bases her guidance on common sense and long-term thinking. You’ll find no get-rich quick gimmicky talk here.
A Little Something Different
- Food Giveaway: Win a Glee Gum Candy Kit! from Gera over at SweetsFoods.com. If I said I wanted to win this for my (2 year old) son, well, I’d be lying. Even while writing this, my mouth is watering for candy now.
- What’s Eating Your Paycheck? I’m not sure, but if you figure it out, please let me know. Really nifty infographic. Thanks, Laura!
Next Week’s List
Want to be part of next week’s list? It’s easy! Just start interacting here on the blog, on Twitter, and also on the other blogs in the circle. Everyone is welcome, no matter the niche.
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