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January 29, 2010

SOB Business Cafe 01-29-10

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:34 am

SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking — articles, books, podcasts, and videos about business online written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Colleges and Universities
Here is a list of 100 blogs that will help you improve your writing by providing inspiration, motivation, creativity and new techniques from experts, freelancers, and editors from every genre.

Top 100 Blogs to Improve Your Writing in 2010

Misadventures with Andi
I did find a few blogs to read, but this activity also left me with the overwhelming need to share a piece of basic web usability advice.

Are you overloaded?

Thomas Clifford
Pink definitely motivated me to rethink how organizations might use multimedia in ways beyond traditional corporate communication methods. Let’s look at one idea from the book and adapt it for our purposes.

What is Our Company’s Purpose? The R-O-I Method

Stephen Smith
How can you not generate big ideas every day? Some of them will not be good ideas, but that is okay. Get them out of your head.

Good ideas come from doing something differently, an unusual experience, an unexpected inspiration. Seek these experiences intentionally. Listen to a radio program that you disagree with, or music that you do not like.

Linchpin – Generate Ideas Every Day

45 Things
Mute.

In today’s workplace, I think a lot of people long for a “mute” button. Unfortunately, not only do we not have the option of tuning everything out, but the increasing stress levels have made it just a bit too loud — in all kinds of ways.

3 Ways to Give the Best of Yourself

Cube Rules
Meetings have many purposes. One of the purposes is to get a decision made about something so people can move forward in their work.

Yet, few would say that meetings produce decisions. Many, if not most, people will tell you the vast majority of meetings are a complete waste of time.

How to get a decision made during a meeting

John Haydon
What if you could cut down on the number of social media sites that you’re posting content on? Posterous allows you to do just that – entirely by email.

How To Automatically Repost Content With Posterous

Related ala carte selections include

Social Media Examiner
In this video I interview Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer for the 358,000 member organization MarketingProfs.

How MarketingProfs Manages Its Brand on Twitter (an Ann Handley Interview)

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–ME “Liz” Strauss

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5 Comments to “SOB Business Cafe 01-29-10”

  1. January 29th, 2010 at 9:11 am
    Business Development | Social Media Literacy | GTD and Productivity Workflow said

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  2. January 29th, 2010 at 9:20 am
    @Stephen said

    Good morning Liz, thanks for the link and for sharing these amazing posts.
    I have been thinking about posterous lately, so that link comes in very handy.

    I’d love to hear what your readers think about getting bad ideas out to make room for good ones.

  3. January 29th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
    bencurnett said

    John Haydon is a total nuts-and-bolts guy. If I’m ever wondering how to do something with social media tools, he’s probably done it, and made a tutorial about it. Awesome.

  4. February 1st, 2010 at 11:27 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hey Stephen,
    I really liked your post this week, and I love your question. Personally, I think that putting lots of ideas on the table helps us to take bits of all of them and make an even better one. :)

  5. February 1st, 2010 at 11:31 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Yeah, Ben,
    John is awesome! He puts his entire being into everything he does. Glad to see you’ve noticed that too!

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