SOB Business Cafe 11-10-06

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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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are



Freshblog has been investigating a social search engine.

Social Searching with URL[dot]com



Creative Think wants to know what your rules of thumb are.

Tom Hirshfield's Rules of Thumb



Sensational Color draws attention to the ligihting.

The Temperature of Light



ePublishingDaily is wondering whether 10,000 views of Michael Connelly’s book is a sign of a new opportunity

Can you use YouTube to marke you info product?



OnebyOne Media is offering a special for your reading pleasure.

A Side of RSS with Your Email?



Carpe Factum asks whether we’re competing when we should be pitching in.

Racing Against Phantoms

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We still have a chance to be part of the Make It Great! contest.

Contest Extended to November 10



Newton doesn’t know that Shards of Consciousness has the laws of relativity reapplied in a new and interesting way.

The Laws of Belief

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

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SOB Business Cafe 07-28-2006

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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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Freshblog provides the what, why and how of haloscan trackbacks.

haloscan Trackback What Why How

Genuine Curiosity takes a close look at the humanity of our human resources.

How are your human resources

Educational Technology and Life offers a wealth of links from Blogging Institute Day 1.

Links from Blogging Institute Day

The Publishing Spot considers our “not so” melancholy profession.

“>This Melancholy Profession

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ePublishing Daily points out how to boost your profits with back selling.

Boost Your Profits with Back End Selling

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

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SOB Business Cafe 04-14-2006

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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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Brian at Copyblogger catches the New York Times being clever with their headlines. Great analysis. Well-worth reading.

Copyblogger Linkbaiting New York Times Style

God over at the godblog lets us know she enters contests. The latest that she’s signed up for is Valleywag’s coin a Valleyspeak word contest. Win free music. Proof that god likes music. Like the new template, god–you must have a thing for change: seasons, day and night, people getting older . . .

GoodGod Blog Valleywag Contest

If only Rocky could package this post and give it as a presentation to some CEOs I know. They need to learn that people need time and resources to do things right the first time. Lot’s of CEO’s could use a Hillbilly PhD. to get their priorities straight.

Hillbilly PhD Doing it right the first time

The essence of great writing and editing is knowing how to remove all of the words that you don’t need. This post from Jamdo Marketing does a great job of explaining that. (Apologies for that errant “b” earlier.” It’s Jamdo.” Get rid of the letters you don’t need too.)

Jamdo Stripping Excess Words from Your Blog

Freshblog comes through again with some creative hacking for Blogger. Now you can make your posts expand and contract. Congratulations on the new design Freshblog–like your name it’s FRESH . . . I’m looking for my link in the blogroll, I think it fell off by mistake. . . . hope this doesn’t mean that we’re breaking up.

Fresblog Post hackery for blogger

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Marianne Richmond’s article on paying attention had such a strong impact on me last week. I was led to rethink some things in the quality of my own life. This one by Liz, from my writing blog.

Letting me be The Essence of Being Alive

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

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