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April 11, 2007

Why SOBCon and Not That Other One?

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:44 am

Conversation Means YOU Talk Too

SOBCon 07

A conversation involves more than one person talking. A conversation means you get to talk too. Research has proven the best adult learning is interactive and inquiry-based. The best ideas come when we mash up the knowledge and approaches from different fields and when we look at ideas from all points of view.

Imagine SOBCon — a room filled with web publishers, many you have met on your blog or blogs like this one.

See the SOBCon presenters. They’re all leading conversations with the audience. Conversation means you get to talk too.

Can you see it? It’s an audience of people engaged in swapping strategies, making valuable contributions, offering top-notch thinking from which you get to choose . . . Here’s just a few of the folks who will be adding value.

  • Brad, Sheila, and Marcus, who know how words make connections with readers
  • Lisa, who brings the soul of an actress and the mind of a teacher
  • Jesse, who can see how a gamer might get over a wall
  • Tony, who can diagnose a problem inside a plan
  • Dr. Wolcott, who is at the top in the field of business innovation
  • Ashley, who brings a painter’s vision and delicate hand
  • Sandra, who knows tools and techniques of visual thinking
  • Joe, who brings those grounding questions and computer expertise
  • Jeff, who understands good to great and will get there
  • Tammy, who knows the people in every part of our job and the dynamics of conversation
  • Tim and so many others, who bring the heart that calls folks to join with us
  • Steve, who is the extreme leadership that lifts us to try
  • Dawud, who brings those goals he wrote that prove we express ourselves in our business
  • Vernun, who knows how to celebrate others as part of our dream
  • Muhammed, who can’t help but provide energy and new ideas
  • Robert, who will be there with a practical eye toward what is real
  • Franke and Timothy, who know the “group think” of the situation
  • Easton, who knows how to organize and monetize without killing the grace of an idea
  • Ann and Kent, who are leaders that know presentation is as important as content
  • Troy, who thinks big and challenges everyone to take permission to do so

And add to that list people from every walk of business life — corporate innovators, public relations communicators, and the hippest new media contributors — no kidding really. I’ve seen who’s coming and they’re all on it.

Why SOBCon 07 and Not That Other One?

An entire room of experienced minds will be challenging each other to find the best ways of

  • engaging readers and connecting with customers
  • drawing people into deeper and more meaningful conversation
  • using architecture that invites people hang out around and talk longer
  • converting visitors into friends and super influencers
  • reaching out beyond the blogosphere

And of course, each person’s answer will be different.

Think about that . . . a roomful of minds all looking the same direction — toward how relationships can build a business — your blog, your business.

SOBCon 07 is more than a conference. It will be an experience — a one of a kind.

A roomful of incredible minds, ideas, and choices.

You can’t get that just anywhere.

Can you see the SOBCon difference?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Please, please, please be sure to book your hotel room at the promotional rate before the room block releases on Friday the 13th — the rest of the hotel is sold out.

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25 Comments to “Why SOBCon and Not That Other One?”

  1. April 11th, 2007 at 9:29 am
    Jesse Petersen said

    We’ve heard of way too many conferences where you sit and listen to the speakers all day or week, paying $800-2000 for the admission alone, and the best times happen at lunch!

    I am most pumped at knowing who I will be there with and getting to talk to the attendees as much as the speakers.

    That is a first, at least for me. Being a darn extreme introvert, this may be the first time I’m actually going to pursue conversations, although I’d be just as happy to have people come to me (I’d be the short guy with the red beard leaning up against the wall by the snacks).

    SOBCon 07 has everything going for it.

  2. April 11th, 2007 at 9:31 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Jesse,
    You did a lot to get there. I bet you’ll be getting every penny’s worth from it. :)

  3. April 11th, 2007 at 9:48 am
    Chris Cree said

    SOBCon is going to be a powerful experience. I can’t wait to rub elbows with all those brilliant folks!

  4. April 11th, 2007 at 9:51 am
    ann michael said

    ….and let’s not forget YOU! I’d go to see you alone!

  5. April 11th, 2007 at 9:52 am
    Jesse Petersen said

    Hear, hear!

  6. April 11th, 2007 at 9:54 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Chris and Ann!
    It’s going to be something rare. All of those people with the head start of common knowledge wanting to make something outstanding and spectacular happen.

  7. April 11th, 2007 at 10:08 am
    GP said

    sigh… if it werent the very same weekend as my first endurance ride/race… i’d be seriously re-thinking that Cessna.

    What an incredible group
    GP in Montana

  8. April 11th, 2007 at 10:39 am
    Easton Ellsworth said

    It’s going to be exquisite.

  9. April 11th, 2007 at 11:24 am
    Tony D. Clark said

    I’m looking forward to it!

    It’ll be nice to shake hands with people I feel I’ve known for a long time, yet never met in person.

  10. April 11th, 2007 at 11:27 am
    Mark Goodyear said

    I just read The Tipping Point. (Hey, I’m only 7 years behind…) And I realized why SOBcon is so important. The people there will be the Mavens. They are the Connectors.

    And all of us will be exploring the big blogging question: is it possible to monetize our blogs?

    Liz, you and Chris and the rest are creating a powerful environment to excite and empower the bloggers who come. I can’t wait.

  11. April 11th, 2007 at 11:29 am
    Sheila at Family Travel said

    Can’t wait to meet everyone and exchange ideas; I had such a blast at SXSWi and didn’t even know anyone, but here I feel like I’m seeing old friends.

  12. April 11th, 2007 at 11:48 am
    ME Strauss said

    @ Easton, you’re helping make that so!

    @ Tony, we’re looking forward to meeting you too. Plenty of people have told me so.

    @ Mark, we can’t leave out Terry and Mike and Lisa who’ve been sweating it out right with us and all of the speakers and sponsors. ;) I know you know that. :) WHAT A GROUP!!!

    @ Sheila, amazing isn’t a big enough word. We’re going to have invent a new vocabulary!!

  13. April 11th, 2007 at 11:59 am
    Mark Goodyear said

    Sorry, Terry and Mike and Lisa! I just shoot these things from the hip, you know.

    I’m so excited I’m about to pee myself. Or maybe that’s the coffee.

    Um. Time for lunch.

    (Did I mention I shoot these things from the hip?)

  14. April 11th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Mark!
    You bring so much joy and enthusiasm. That room is going to be filled with electricity!

  15. April 11th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
    Chris Cree said

    Did Mark reference that Wiki-place? I see crayon marks all over. :lol:

  16. April 11th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
    Jesse Petersen said

    That’s a good one, Chris. ROFL.

  17. April 11th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Chris,
    Have Klondike bar and give one to Jesse, please. :)

  18. April 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
    Mark Goodyear said

    Hey, I like wikipedia! It’s easy and quick. (Shooting from the hip, remember?) I prefer to use it to find a quick bibliography for better links, but I got lazy.

  19. April 11th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Oh Mark,
    I’m now coloring all over my flat screen again. I was traumatized by their editorial guidelines once. I’ve never fully recovered. I know what I’ll be doing tonight. . . . where’s the screen cleaner. I sure hope we didn’t run out again. Why is it I think I hear Chris laughing all of the way from Georgia?

  20. April 11th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
    Chris Cree said

    He’s laughing. Oh yes. :lol:

  21. April 11th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
    ME Strauss said

    I knew it! :)

  22. April 11th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
    Dave Schoof: said

    I am really looking forward to this - you and your comrades have been working hard to create something brand new. In many ways you have already delivered through the communities and connections being made ahead of the event.

  23. April 11th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Dave,
    I don’t think we’ve even fully grasped the depth of how much difference it’s going to make that the audience has so much history and so much intelligence. Whoa! it blows me away to think of the potential in that room.

  24. April 12th, 2007 at 8:13 am
    On the Tipping Point of Communications - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You’re only a stranger once. said

    […] Something Mark Goodyear said yesterday about SOBCon reminded me of how often folks have called me a connector or a maven and of how many connectors and mavens I know. . . . a connector and a maven – one who links like-minded people and one who gathers and shares deep information . . . that sounds the definition of almost every relationship blogger I know. We are connectors and mavens at the tipping point of communication. […]

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