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February 20, 2009

SOB Business Cafe 02-20-09

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 1:21 pm

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

social media explorer
With so many different services, blogs, and sites out there, small business owners and other marketers who are usually already stretched thin often figure that monitoring and participating in social media will require a time commitment and technical savvy that they just don’t have.

Not true. It’s better to participate at a level you can manage than to ignore social media altogether.

A Quick ‘n Dirty Guide to Setting up Social Media Monitoring

Barry J. Moltz
Process needs to trump outcome. This is nearly an impossible goal because regardless of what we say, the common belief is that the ends always justify the means.

Letting Go of the Outcome

Direct Marketing Observations
There are people out there, that don’t like you. I know, shocking isn’t it? For some of you, it might be. In social media we talk about, and write even more about how social media creates these magical relationships of synergy, business alliances, and friendships. But what people rarely talk about, are the relationships that have originated from social networking-that have gone sour.

Social Media is the Platform for Bad Relationships too…

Divine Purpose Unleased
There are lots of ways the roles you play change; actually roles change often. Sometimes your role gets yanked out from under you like when you get fired from a job. Your role shifts when your children grow up and move out of the house. You might get married… or divorced.

Your Life Purpose is NOT a Role You Play!

RANDOM ACTS OF LEADERSHIP
As of today 316,641 results returned when searching Amazon for books on leadership. According to Warren Bennis in Leaders (1997) “academic analysis has given us more than 850 definitions of leadership”. I think it is fair to say that defining leadership will be studied and debated for a long time to come and it is likely we will never all agree on THE BEST definition.

THE Best Definition of Leadership…

Related ala carte selections include

Amy Derby wants to know …

What color crayon are you?

Terry Starbucker is making a great offer …

Announcing the “Blog It, Earn It” Discount for SOBCon09 (but hurry!)

By my eBook to learn the art of online conversation!

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like. No tips required. Comments appreciated.

–ME “Liz” Strauss





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8 Comments to “SOB Business Cafe 02-20-09”

  1. February 20th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
    KatFrench said

    Hey, thanks for the recommendation!

    (And apparently, I am a RED crayon.)

    Have a lovely weekend, Ms. Liz!

  2. February 20th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
    Amy said

    I wanted to be purple. I was orange. But on the part of the quiz where it told me I was orange, the picture of the crayon was green.

    :-)

  3. February 21st, 2009 at 8:05 am
    Barry Moltz said

    Thanks for the call out! Honored to be here!

  4. February 21st, 2009 at 11:28 am
    Nick Wagner said

    Hi Liz. Yesterday, you wrote about connectivity, and hear’s a connectivity story. I saw your link to Barry J. Moltz’s post, Letting Go of the Outcome. I thought what he had to say would be interesting to my audience of Catholic ministers. So I adapted his business principles to spirituality principles in this post: Do you run your RCIA like a business? Maybe you should. Thanks for the lead.

    Nick Wagner

  5. February 21st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
    Michelle Vandepas said

    Liz, Thank you! What a suprise!…..and now I’m off to read Barry… I hope everyone takes advantage of that great early bird discount for SobCon.

  6. March 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
    CK Reyes said

    I’ve been avoiding my role as a blogger since day one. My judgment is that bloggers are on-line all day long. I’m on-line all day long. My Divine Purpose is to empower people to live their fullest life. I guess I do that through my role as blogger–but don’t tell anyone! I’ve asked Michelle to say, “Hi!” to everyone in May! I’ll be holding down the computer…

  7. June 28th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
    Susan Mazza said

    Hi Liz,

    I just moved my wordpress blog out of wordpress and this link appeared. Never saw it on my old site. Wanted to thank you for the link even though it was so long ago. Means a lot especially coming from you.

    I am also glad it showed up today because “the quick and dirty guide..” is the perfect post for me to read at the perfect time! Perhaps there are no accidents…

  8. June 28th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Susan,
    What a gift and a wonder that you bring these words here. Most folks would figure this was history. You are one special person.

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