Every Saturday, I plan to share helpful resources that I come across from my Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and RSS feeds. If you have links to blog posts, articles, and lists that you want included in our Saturday Sharing series, drop me a line via the Contact page with the subject line “Saturday Sharing” and I’ll include it here. I do reserve the right to veto links that I think are not appropriate to for this blog or to common decency.
Here’s the first set of tips, tricks, tidbits and tutorials that you may find useful and/or profitable: 
Writing / Blogging
- How do you become an amazing blogger? Read, read again, and read lots more!
- Laziness, selfishness, and an identity crisis are among the 7 deadly sins you want to avoid when blogging.
- When blogging, remember to not sweat it. Here’s a way to write a great blog post in 15 minutes, tops!
- And of course, the way to kick off a blog post is with a resounding bang.
- A last minute reminder: improve your blogging prowess with a continuing education plan.
Making Money Online
- Here’s a list of 9 ways on how you can make money online.
- Making a living from online pursuits is sexy. Thing is, behind the scenes, there are unsexy truths that you have to deal with.
Social Media
- If you’re totally new to social media, here are the first things you need to know about social media–from A to Z.
- A special guide to tweeting, especially for businesses, from Twitter. Everything on getting started, to learning the lingo, and best business tweeting practices. (Great for freelancers who know jack about Twitter!)
- For freelancers, 3 of the 17 ways to use Twitter include personal branding, networking, and finding prospects.
- The ultimate guide to using Facebook for bloggers (and freelancers)…or at least, how Facebook can help in your branding.
SEO
- SEO 101, in plain English. (Links direct to video.) I must confess, this simplified SEO for me.
- SEO basics from Aaron Wall, one more time.
- This time, it’s SEO at a glance. (Infographics)
- Aaron Wall’s comprehensive SEO advice for bloggers.
- The 5 different types of links, explained for ordinary Joes and Janes like me.
Personal note:
If you’ve been seeing this blog transmogrifying every now and then today (and possibly into the next few days), I’m busy testing themes, tweaking code, and making a lot of newbie mistakes in customizing my blog.
Feel free to throw in your 2 cents’ worth of advise, criticism, and suggestions…just be sure to break it to me gently if the opinion is a little more of a rant than a rave. I cry “Ouch!” easily.
