Thanks to Week 133 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The SOBCon Influence According to BuzzLogic

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Conversationally

This news from Valerie Coombs at BuzzLogic . . .

I just did an influence query on “sobcon liz strauss” and got these results.

How did we get these results?
BuzzLogic’s influence algorithm takes a dozen factors into account in determining the influence of posts and a blog overall. They include:

a blogger’s credibility and expertise on a specific topic over time,
who is linking in,
the quality and influence of all in-linkers and
the popularity of a post overall.

Congrats to Lorelle VanFossen for the most influential post in the entire sobcon conversation!

SOBCon Remembered and Recommended

See below the Top 25 right as of the close of SOBCon.

Liz Strauss
Lorelle – Lorelle has the single most influential post ever about SOBCON!
Phil Gerbyshak
Brain Based Business
David Armano
The Blog Herald
James D Walton
Timothy L Johnson
Bootsnall travel community
Ben Yonkavitz
Joe Hauckes
Tim Draayer
Des Walsh
Dawud Miracle
Jon Gatrell
Drew McLellan
FutureLab blog
Kent Blumberberg
Geoffrey Philp
Robert Hruzek
Christine Kane
Amy Palko
problogger
Mary Schmidt
Adam Kayce

See the screenshot of the Social Map around Lorelle’s post. Click to see it full size.

BuzzLogic Conversation around the Most Influential Blog Post

We will continue to watch the conversation and update you on changes…. Valerie, BuzzLogic

Do you have influence? Will the SOBCon blog posts you write change this listing?

For more about BuzzLogic, visit Jeremiah’s post of Shel’s Interview with the Co-Founder. Sandra and Valerie are both in the vid.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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The Mic Is On: We’re Talking About All Things Mexico…

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Hola!

With Cinco de Mayo this week, it’s a great time to go just a little south of Chicago to Mexico.

Trips and vacations in Mexico
Our favorite Mexican foods
Mexican holidays and Mexican traditions
Stories about Mexico that we know

Of course, we’ll talk about everything under the sun as well. And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)

Oh, and bring links to share about Mexican things.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: All Things Mexico!

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Hola!

With Cinco de Mayo this week, Tim Johnson suggested that it’s a great time to go just a little south of Chicago to Mexico. We’ll talk about trips and vacations in Mexico, our favorite Mexican foods, Mexican holidays and Mexican traditions, stories about Mexico that we know and anything else that comes up.