SOB Business Cafe 07-07-2006

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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

Jonic Linley analyzes an interview with Blake Ross, co-founder of the Mozilla Firefox browser project, by a Seattle newspaper. Jonic’s analysis is what makes this post so strong. Great information here.

100yen article

Seth Godin explains Diggbait.

What's Diggbait?

Tom Vander Well’s thoughts for bloglings are worth reading no matter when you started.

Thoughts for Bloglings

Mama Mouse knows where the Google Blogger/Blogspot help is — multiple links to informed sources.

Help for Blogger Problems

Related ala carte selections include

Bloggers Blog let’s us in on Chris Pirillo and Brad Fitzpatrick’s new comic venture.

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

Seth Godin, Seminars, & What I Almost Missed

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Choosing to Go Isn’t Easy

They say that when the learner is ready the teacher appears.

061506 Seth Godin and Liz

I had the privilege of attending a Seth Godin seminarthis week. My closest friends can’t believe I managed to get there.

Getting to a seminar is a problem for me. There are so many seminars, and there’s so little time. I have a problem choosing. I don’t really like to commit my time. I really like learning, but I’m leery of things that look like school.

Learning is task that I do by myself. A seminar is a BIG DEAL — It’s an investment of time and money. I have a whole speech that talks me out of such things. I can call that speech up in a second.

“NO WAY! Can’t afford it. No time. Too much to do. Need to be working, not spending. That would be fun. That would slacking. . . . taking the easy way. Can’t buy folks’ wisdom just ’cause I feel like it.”

What a crock!

It’s a great speech. It’s not a valid argument . . . but it works when want to talk myself out of something. It’s not about time or about slacking. NO WAY, No time is my back door to avoiding something that I feel is risky.

Attending a seminar is saying out loud that I want to learn something.

What if I go and it’s not what I thought? What if I don’t learn anything? What if I fall off my bike?

The answer’s the same to all three questions. But you knew that. I had to learn the hard way. I skipped the seminar on the value of seminars. If had skipped the Seth Godin seminar, I would have missed so much more.

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