SOB Business Cafe 02-09-07

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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

Problogger details how he well and truly earns over six figures.

How I Make Money from Blogs - My Top Earners

Logic + Emotion is talking about the guy who might be the
next Malcolm Gladwell.

Made to Stick

Small Biz Survival has the news about teaching.
entrepreneurship.

News: Teaching entrepreneurship

Own Your Own Brand coaches us to find our artist/industrialist.

Spielberg Your Business

Balanced Life Center explores how communication works.

5 Tips for Better Communication

Related ala carte selections include

Shards of Consciousness has a work of art for our listening
pleasure.

Your Life, Your Greatest Work of Art.

Spooky Action shows the use of game design in designing
consistent experiences.

PED - The Game Designer’s Model

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 01-12-07

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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

Success from the Nest has a question that could impact our bottom line.

Do You Know Where Your Nuts Are?

Deep Jive Interests has offers Yahoo! a plan to get their ROI from MyBlogLog.

Hereâ€™s How Yahoo! Could Capitalize on MyBlogLog

Solo Business Marketing reminds us of one thing we should be certain to find out.

Does Your Client Have the Authority to Pay?

Workboxers explains how to name a real world business opening online.

Selecting a Solid Business Domain Name

Drew’s Marketing Minute has an important ultimatum.

Love me or let me go

Logic + Emotion gives us a tour of what will soon be the newest and fastest growing habitat of the business world.

The iPhone Ecosystem

Technosailor details a series on the business of podcasting.

Podcasting Essentials: Strength in Numbers

Whimspiration has gathered a comprehensive list of non-GMO, natural, heirloom, organic, and CNG seed vendors for gardeners looking to buy products on the Internet

Related ala carte selections include

Scribbit reminds us that not all things should be business.

Creative Family Activities: Part One

Creative Think explains the benefit of resting to change and creativity.

Pause for a Bit

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

David Armano IS a B.A.D. Blogger!

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Blogger A Day Call: Hello is David there?

David Armano left New York for Chicago. My first question was what he found when he got here. He said he was surprised at how beautiful the city is and how it surprised him that we don’t live and breathe fashion the way they do in New York City. “Everything is more casual,” he said. These days David says he beginning to like that, especially now that he’s raising a family.

That was a perfect opening for me to give one Chicagoan’s view of New York, LA, Boston, and Chicago. It goes something like this: You’re easily forgotten after 15 minutes in LA. In Boston, after 15 years you’re that person from wherever you came from. In New York, it takes 15 times for them to really get to know you. But in Chicago after five minutes a Chicagoan will take you out for a beer. We both laughed.

David and I talked about how he started blogging. He mentioned that he tries to keep his blog completely separate from the work he does. He pointed out that it still spills over some — folks mention in HR, while they are interviewing that they have read David’s blog. He said it’s not so much that he doesn’t want his blog to represent his company, but that he doesn’t want it to raise his profile in the workplace. He likes his blog to be his creative space away from work.

David and I spent some time talking about the people who blog and the effect that blogging has on people. I asked David whether he thought blogging changed him appreciably. He said, “When I first started blogging, I was a corporate citizen . . . now a year later, people put me in another class.” I said I understood what he was saying, calling my blog a 1200 page resume, pointing out that obviously he had shown he was a thought leader. We talked about whether anyone experienced the same change in “status” that he had. We decided it took more than a blog to do that.

David talked about other changes he sees in his life. How a few years back he’d never have thought of himself as an author. He said he’d never have considered writing a book, but now, he thinks about that very thing. He said that he never has faced his blog wondering what he would write. It was exciting and fun to discuss how he can feel himself reconnecting with his creative spirit. THAT was a cool conversation to share with him!

I think about how when the conversation started, I told David how Chicagoans like it when people who move here call themselves “Chicagoans.” David said that he might try that. I sure hope he does.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

I’ve found out things about myself that I’ve rediscovered. I always valued the quick creativity and ideas I had in college. The fact that I’ve rediscovered that has a lot of meaning to me.–David Armano

Stop by David’s Blog, Logic + Emotion, and say hi!

Thanks, David, 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.

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