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November 21, 2008

SOB Business Cafe 11-21-08

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 11:05 am

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Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Career Renegade introduces the once-in-a-lifetime manifesto.
The economy has just served you up a big, fat opportunity! In fact, you may never get an opening like this again. A chance to make a bold change, take a shot at doing what you love, and not be judged for trying. You’ve got a once-in-a-lifetime window here created by a once-in-a-lifetime event.

The Fire Fly Manifesto

Just Creative introduces secrets to the cutting edge of blogging.
Although these tips may sound common sense to some, for others it isn’t (hence the secret)… If blog owners implemented these 7 tips, their blog would certainly have an edge over the competition - The funny thing is, so many blogs don’t!

7 Secrets You MUST Know To Give Your Blog The Edge

Presentations Zen introduces us to Tim Brown’s ideas about playing.
I often associate at least one aspect of play and playfulness with the old Buddhist idea of the beginner’s mind (or child’s mind). That is, in the child’s mind there are infinite possibilities, but in our adult mind (one filled with habits and routines) there often seems to be few.

Play is good for you (and it’s good for business)

Barbara Ling introduces us to our inner eagle and our inner turkey.
In other words, we might be eagles at heart, but if our circumstances plops us down among a flock of turkeys, we had better know how to happily peck for seeds with the crowd too.

An Unfettered EAGLE amongst turkeys - embracing your learning style

Technosailor
The saga of cheatsheets and reference sheets continues with this outline of the hot new WordPress 2.7 which will be released soon. . . .

Termed “Crazyhorse” at the beginning of the cycle, the WordPress admin is the result of complete thinking outside the box, research and user testing. The concept began as “Let’s throw everything away that we assume to be proper and correct and see what we can come up with when we have no preset conditions”.

The result is a semantically, aesthetically and structurally different WordPress than you’ve ever known before. This is not your grandma’s WordPress!

10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7

Related ala carte selections include

Random Good Stuff introduces . . .

Star Shine II

Thanks to everyone who bought 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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2 Comments to “SOB Business Cafe 11-21-08”

  1. November 21st, 2008 at 11:20 am
    Jonathan Fields said

    Hey Liz,

    Thanks so much for including me in this week’s SOB Business Cafe and for helping spread the word about the Fire Fly Manifesto. It’s been a labor of love and you’ve been a constant source of inspiration, information and support throughout the journey! :)

    Jonathan

  2. November 21st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
    Jacob Cass said

    Thank you very much for the link out Liz in this weeks SOB :)

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