SOB Business Cafe 09-19-08

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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

Seth’s Blog offers a thought on noisy people.
Should you listen to the loud ones, the ones who call the sports radio stations to complain about the pitching, the ones who post websites about your lousy service, the ones who organize nationwide boycotts?

Listening to the loud people

Talking Story weaves a lesson about friendship and learning.
I find I am thinking about friendship, and what it has done for me over the course of my life.

Embracing What I Learned From My Friends (This stuff is good!)

Punctuality Rules gives journalism new meaning.
Did you ever really think about the fact that “Journalist” has two completely separate meanings?

Are You a Journalist?

Blogsessive rocks on blogging.
Have you ever wondered what was it that made blogging turn into such a mass phenomenon, with billions of bloggers and readers spread all over the world?

Top 5 Reasons Why Blogging Rocked Our World

spatially Rrelevant is inviting community intelligence.
If you find it particularly useful, feel free to let some folks know about it. The concepts in the book are a continuing area of interest for both Sheryl and me, so feedback appreciated.

The Social Marketing Construct: Evolving Brands and Emerging Realities

Pistachio sheds more light on listening.
Any brand looking to “get” social media must learn to listen, first. People are talking about your company, brands and products. They’re also discussing preferences and desires about the market your product serves.

Listen At-a-Glance with Tweetgrid

Essential Keystrokes shows the gymnastic skills of WordPress.
The first decision I had to make was whether to code the new WordPress site from scratch or to use another theme as a base.

Project Files - WordPress as a CMS Comes Through Again

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zefrank rejiggers his own memory game.
based on your advice here is an updated version of the Flickr Memory Game :: if you have the time i would love your advice on making it better ::

memory game

Thanks to everyone who bought my eBook this week!

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

Great Graphic Ideas: Nebon Media

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Cool Things Are Happening

If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. Lorelle shared this design group with me.

Great Find: Nebon Media

Permalink: http://www.nebonmedia.com/en/inthehut.html

Target Audience: Design clients

Content: Any web citizen who appreciates great design likes to check in what cool designers are doing. The folks at Nebon Media have some great ideas. Take a minute to check them out. Click the screenshot to make a visit.


Nebon Media


I don’t know them. I’ve never talked to them or worked with them. I just like what they’re doing visually. Notice how you can see through board to the trees behind the “hut” the shelves are in.

Great design engages imagination ways like that.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
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SOB Business Cafe 09-12-08

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SB Cafe

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

I’ve been gathering tips and suggestions on e-mail etiquette for a while now, and looking for the opportunity to share them. ‘Respect’ seemed like the right framework, so with no pretences at originality, here’s are some classic ways to disrespect my inbox plus a collection of great links and resouces on how to get it right.

Confident Writing is exploring an in-box epidemic.

20 Ways to Disrespect My InBox

Christine Kane is exploring fixes some folks search a lifetime to find. Read both parts.
The problem with all of it is this:

It’s externally focused.

It’s what I call “fixing the outside form.” It’s like trying to change a movie plot by rushing up to the screen and shouting to the characters what they should do next. Very tiring. Not very productive.

Creating College: 5 Things I Wish I Knew as an Undergrad

the Blog Herald is exploring handwriting analysis in a new way.

Blogging and the Handwriting Challenged

business Opportunities and Ideas is exploring how to fix a lack of attraction.
Sadly advertising does not work for the majority of small businesses. So they give up believing that advertising is only something “big businesses” do, claiming that “advertising doesn’t work for my type of business”.

7 Questions To Ask If Your Advertising Doesn’t Work

Write to Done is exploring the “writes” of success.
I love reading about my favorite writers and what writing habits led to their success. Below, I share with you some of my favorite writers’ work habits … and it’s obvious that there’s no single way to success.

Learn from the Greats: 7 Writing Habits of Amazing Writers

David Airey is exploring words that look good.
Inspiring typographical Flickr collections, for designers and type nuts. The following groups contain more than 50,000 images showcasing typography. Just about enough to quench your type desires.

30 inspiring Flickr groups on typography

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Carpe Factum is exploring that eternal question . . . while you’re there contact him about the deal he’s got on group purchases of his business fables.

Do You Like Green Eggs and Bear?

Thanks again to everyone who bought my eBook to learn about 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

SOB Business Cafe 09-05-08

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SB Cafe

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

own your brand has thoughts about creativity.
“I can help him!” declared the neighboring teller.

“No, you can’t!” replied “my” teller.

I Can Help!

BIGG Success has thoughts about how to get where we’re going.
In this age of personal branding, a coach can do the same for us – take us where we can’t take ourselves. We’ve found that our coaches save us time – we get where we want to be faster because they help us identify what’s most important.

Great Athletes Have One. So Should You

the brandbox has thoughts about things rolling downhill.
All of us, at one point or another, have had a bad experience with a company. Sometimes, it’s mild enough for us to grumble for a few moments and go on our way, and give them another shot another day. Other times, it’s bad enough that we’ll never do business with that company again, but we don’t spread that to other people.

The Brand Damage Snowball Effect

Bold Enterprises has thoughts about checking out and checking in.
If you were to lose your job, how surprised would your network of acquaintances be to hear from you?

Listen In -> Uncertainty & Stress #5: Stay Connected to Your Relational Network

Occam’s RazR has thoughts about tricks to get your attention.
Which is worse:

A title that goes overboard with buzzwords?

Or that sinking feeling in your gut where you realize you’ve been gamed through human engineering?

10 Worst Ways to Digg-Proof Your Inbox-Zero from Social Media Overload with Google Chrome

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influx technology has visuals on the future of information retrival.
Mac Funamizu a web/graphic designer working in Tokyo, Japan has developed some great visuals showing some interesting concepts around the future of search.

the future of search

Have a few thoughts about that brand new feeling. . . .

BLOGGING FEELING EVENT

Thanks to everyone who bought my eBook this week!

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

SOB Business Cafe 08-29-08

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SB Cafe

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

The Marketing Fresh Peel has brought us . . . an entertaining and enlightening conversation.
I’ve hosted some excellent authors in past Post2Post series, but interviewing Tom adds a whole new level of excitement for me. I’ve been a fan of his cartoons for a number of years and I’m routinely amazed at how with a simple cartoon, he can take issues that baffle brand managers and marketers and portray them with such clarity.

Interview with Author and Cartoonist Tom Fishburne

Loudmouthman has brought us . . . a real opinion.
There is this snobbish notion that my profession and interests are not Real. That conversations via email, skype and twitter are not real compared to conversations you may have when you meet face to face in physical sense , the term more commonly referred to In Real Life.

Keeping it Real since 1971 05 Aug

Confused of Calcutta has brought us . . . some reasons to remember how our links connect us to each other.
When I read this evocative piece by Tim O’ Reilly on Linking To Yourself, and began to understand just how widespread the “habit” had become, I began to wonder.

Circle-linking

Engaging Brand has brought us . . . something to wonder about.
Seven more wonders of the — ahem — business world.

7 Wonders of Anna’s Business World

45 Things has brought us . . . the wisdom of family television.
When I saw the apartment, I fell in love. It was in an old Victorian home that the owner had converted into three units. High ceilings, a claw-footed bathtub and no olive green appliances. I immediately grabbed it and put down my deposit.

But after moving in, I began to discover some things that I had not observed in my first starry-eyed inspection of the place.

What the Brady Bunch Can Teach You About Finding the Right Job

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Less Ordinary has brought us . . . a reason to bring out the living color.
I don’t know about you, but when the weather is like this I find myself sinking into a colour slump: that state in which you no longer really see colour around you, you become very serious and work-orientated and you forget to have fun.

10 Tips For Adding A Splash of Colour

Meanwhile . . . thanks to everyone who bought my eBook this week.

Buy the eBook and 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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