SOB Business Cafe 02-23-07

Filed Under Great Finds, Successful Blog | 8 Comments

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

Don’t take out your tools to answer the question posed by Creating Passionate Users.

Are our tools making us dumber?

Seth’s Blog states the two things most folks get from blogging.

If no one reads your post, does it exist?

Marketing Profs ask about whether we’re paying attention to our readers.

What If We Practiced a Little Customer Engine Optimization

Copyblogger suggests a Roman statesman as your next blog consultant.

Let Cicero Build You a Sticky Blog

9:o1am diggs up another kind of trademark story.

Digg to lose name to Lucasfilm?

Problogger offers the fine points to blog conversation.

How to Add to Blogging Conversations… And Eliminate the Echo Chamber

Related ala carte selections include

Word Sell has age old advice about Search Engine Marketing.

Search Engine Marketing–Size Doesn’t Matter

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

Tags: 9o1am, copyblogger, Creating-Passionate-Users, Marketing-Profs, Problogger, Seths-Blog, Word-Sell

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SOB Business Cafe 12-15-06

Filed Under Business Life, Customer Think, Marketing, Outside the Box, Successful Blog, Trends, ZZZ-FUN | 6 Comments

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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Marketing Profs is explaining why everything old is new again.

Creating Passionate Users suggests that we innovate on our own model.

The Copywriter Underground points to something unconventional and asks whether it could be a trend.

Resonance Partnership discusses a trend most folks are hoping will die out.

Attract More Customers points out three reasons people miscommunicate.

Seth unveils the magic and mystery that is the difference between being an Apple and owning a Dell.

Related ala carte selections include

Lorelle on WordPress has a challenge. Help her compile the list.

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

Tags: Attract-More-Customers, Creating-Passionate-Users, Lorelle-on-WordPress, Marketing-Profs, Resonance-Partnership, Seths-Blog, The-Copywriter-Underground

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Time for Everything: Letting Go to Find Flow

Filed Under Analysis, Perfect Virtual Manager, Productivity, Successful Blog, Trends | 26 Comments

A Time for Everything

To everything there is a season,
A time to drive, a time to eat,
A time to type, a time to hear,
A time to connect, a time to reflect,
A time for phones, a time for elevators.
To everything, there is a season — paraphrased from Ecclesiastes 3

A few days ago, Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users wrote about a product called Twitter.

For those of you who don’t know about Twitter, it has one purpose in life–to be (in its own words)–A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? And people answer it. And answer it. And answer it. Over and over and over again, every moment of every hour, people type in a word, fragment, or sentence about what they’re doing right then. (Let’s overlook the fact that there can be only one true answer to the question: “I’m typing to tell twitter what I’m doing right now… which is typing to tell twitter what I’m doing right now.” Or something else that makes my head hurt.)

Click the title to see the product page

Why would anyone want to do that?

Twitter also a tool for

Social Networking System
Chatroom
Microblogging
Multiplexer
Group Communicator
RSS Feed
Salon
Meme
MLM

For me, that makes it worse. I had seen Twitter, and frankly I hoped that it would just go away. I see it as one of the weird worm holes of an overly plugged-in culture that I’m trying fiercely to avoid.

Kathy Sierra makes fun of twitter for the same reason that I avoided it. We both see it as one more way to fragment our attention in a world that already does a great job of doing so.

Finding focus is impossible when we live in a state of constant interruption. Call me cold and unfeeling, but I don’t care about some stranger’s cat named Fluffy — and it irritates me when that stranger makes a call in an elevator to find out about Fluffy, invading my space, my thoughts, making me virtually invisible — practically screaming that I don’t exist. Exactly how rude is that?

I’m all about finding Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience“>Flow.
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Tags: Continuous-Partial-Attention, Creating-Passionate-Users, Ecclesiates, Flow, Twitter

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SOB Business Cafe 10-05-06

Filed Under Branding, Business Life, Community, Marketing, Successful Blog, Trends | 14 Comments

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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Business Blogwire has some ideas for what you might do with your Fridays.

Life Beyond Code offers a way to build relationships while building a personal brand.

R Web Designs wants us to check our adsense code.

It’s Not About Your Stuff reminds us that we need to value ourselves when payday comes.

John TP interviews a digg gamer on how the game works.

Related ala carte selections include

Creating Passionate Users wants you to know it’s not too late to show what you’ve got.

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!

Tags: Business-Blogwire, Creating-Passionate-Users, Its-Not-About-Your-Stuff, JohnTP, Life-Beyond-Code, R-Web-Designs

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SOB Business Cafe 08-18-2006

Filed Under Business Life, Community, Customer Think, Great Finds, Marketing, Productivity, Successful Blog, Tools | 5 Comments

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 title shots to enjoy each selection.