SOB Business Cafe 03-23-07

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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

Strategic Name Development talks about branding your band.

Brand Naming: Characteristics of a Band Name

Logic + Emotion has Armano v. von Oech.

Analog-Digital Foreign Exchange Program

Wendy Piersall at Problogger has a way to gain leverage from an A-Lister.

How to Leverage the Traffic of an A-List Blog

Ask Dr. Kirk gives some pointers on how to present information during a presentation.

Communicate With Body Language While Teaching

Blogging Pro’s new design is available.

Blogging Pro’s Theme Released

Related ala carte selections include

The Instigator Blog has decided to take on Copyblogger at writing the most contagious headline ever!

You Don’t Have To Play With Yourself Anymore

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

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 03-09-07

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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

Blogoprenuer offers a lesson taken out of context.

Content is king, context is the palace

Kent Blumberg has a series for us on the elements of greatness.

The Elements of Great Managing: 1 - Job Clarity

Life Coaches offers a manifesto for every parent, teacher, manager, friend, mentor, brother, sister, person who knows another person.

The Life Coach Manifesto v1.1

Talking Story tells about customers and work ethic.

Waiting Tables and Work Ethic

Creative Think celebrates 100 posts with an interview.

What Makes David Armano Tick?

You Already Know This Stuff asks if we’re ready to take grown-up steps.

How FAR would you GO to Play Big?

Related ala carte selections include

Ask Dr. Kirk has a remedy for that bad feeling.

How To Manage That Feeling Of Being Overwhelmed

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

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Dr. Delaney Kirk Is a B.A.D. Blogger

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Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Delaney there?

From the second that we first started talking at 7:30a.m., Delaney and I were immediately discussing people and their behavior.

We started with people who speak for a living — how so many are animated and outgoing when in front of an audience, but extremely self-conscious when they first meet someone individually. I suggested that the difference was once explained to me as a matter of who is holding the microphone. I suppose in today’s environment that could be considered the ultimate permission to talk.

Delaney and I discussed talking to the audience before a presentation and other ways to draw an audience into the experience, ways to make a relationship before the first word is spoken. We shared the pain of watching someone who had memorized every word, and the misuse of PowerPoint <--well, we said the word, PowerPoint. We were more interested in mindmapping and storytelling. It figures that two teachers would be. We spent the most time talking about how people remember stories and the ideas that stories illuminate.

Dr. Kirk taught me a term I’d not heard before — impression management — managing how people perceive us. We discussed the way teachers manage their image so that students respond with respect for them and what they have to say. That made me think about how I did that with the first graders in my classes. It came up how our impressions affect whether we cut someone a little slack when we find they have reached a rough spot. I told her that’s why I studied harder for the first test than the final in my college classes — the first test said who I was. Delaney knew exactly what I meant.

Delaney wanted everyone to know that the book list she asked for is longer than she could have imagined, and now she has her work cut out deciding which books to use when class begins in January. That led us into a discussion of how she was thinking that her next book might come from her blog. I pointed out that knowing that now works in her favor; she can write her blog with the book in mind. We talked about ways to do that. One way was to write a series of blog posts that would become each chapter — later she could pull the content together already organized, rewriting only to smooth the segues.

She’s full-time professor, one busy blogger, our Dr. Delaney Kirk, and now she’s going to write another book!

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

I enjoy blogging because I’m able to reach out to mentor people, and share the little bit I know and other people can do that too. –Delaney Kirk

Stop by Delaney’s Blog, Ask Dr. Kirk, and say hi!

Thanks, Delaney, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Let’s Help Delaney Find Great Books on Organizational Behavior

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Dr. Kirk Doesn’t Want to Use Textbooks

At Tuesday Open Comments Night, Delaney Kirk told us that she was going to teach her classes using business books — not textbooks. She asked our suggestions and we mentioned some powerful selections.

On Saturday morning, Delaney and I continued the conversation. We talked about books and blogs that also could be useful.

Dr. Kirk still has time to put her list together. Won’t you join us in helping her? The topics include:

  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • Communication
  • Organizational Change
  • Teamwork
  • Power & politics

You can catch up on what books we’ve recommended and get the details by clicking the title below.

What Business Books Do You Recommend for Students to Read

Take a look at your shelves and your bedside table. Check your briefcase, your desk, the arm of the couch, wherever you keep business books you might have. It’s also a great excuse to visit your favorite bookstore. You can always say you’re helping the college kids.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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