SOB Business Cafe 11-07-08

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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

Copyblogger describes how to move people to action.
The right message at the right time can start a movement that changes the world, in both big and small ways. And social media has the ability to spread that message and organize that movement in ways not possible in the recent past.

How to Change the World Using Social Media

davidbullock describes the key factors that made success. Be sure to follow the link inside the post to Using Social Media As A Promotional Strategy.
To learn any new skill, I find it is best to follow those who are actors in the marketplace. These are the ones who have uncommon practical experience that will never be found in a book and most times will never be documented and you have to engage them in the moment because it is easy to forget the details and thinking that surrounds a successful project.

Barack Obama Social Media Technology Team Interview

Seth’s blog describes how to turnaround your life.
And for everyone else, effort is directly related to success. Not all the time, but as much as you would expect. Smarter, harder working, better informed and better liked people do better than other people, most of the time.

Is effort a myth?

Confident Writing describes our resposibilities.
When thinking about writing and responsibility, let’s not forget this part. Your responsibility to shine. To lift the lid off. To write your most brilliant, sparkling stuff. To move mountains, and soften hearts. To write the words that’ll make the difference.

Your Responsibility to Shine

Related ala carte selections include

And BeingFive introduces

Prune Juice

Thanks to all who bought my ebook to learn the art of online conversation!

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

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Two Blogs in One: A Good Hack Gone Bad

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Two Blogs in One

On Tuesday Open Comment Nights while the comments are flying at one or more per second, Joe says Successful-Blog has a time warp. Come and see for yourself. He seems to be onto something. Yesterday I thought Is there a space warp too? It sure felt that way.

The problem started Thursday night — folks could see their own comments, but couldn’t see mine. Had I fallen out of my blog into a black hole? No, a server move met my way of finding unique problems to solve.

Not everyone could say they had two, two, two blogs in one.

Thank you, Jeremy for telling me what was going on. I didn’t know you were moving house, yet you stopped to find out, so I would know.

Thank you, HART for the screen shot of what you saw — it helped solve the problem with fewer words.

What I Saw What You Saw that HART Sent

A Good Hack Gone Bad

The smartest technology architect from b5media, who had plenty to do, Aaron Brazell saw that I was still on the old server blog. He found a forgotten hack in my computer. It was made months back to fix an issue I hardly remember.

Helpful hacks can be problems waiting to happen. This was a case of a good hack gone bad.

We deleted that hack. Suddenly, I was back on the blog inside your computer.
Thank you, thank you, Aaron. I so appreciate every minute you spent.

Gosh it’s great to be back. Yeah I know, most folks say I’m lost in space anyway. So what’s new?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

PS. Please don’t ask why I never thought to check one of the other 8 million computers in our house. I was lost in space. I didn’t know where I was.

Of course, when I finally told my husband what was up, that was the first thing he did. Go figure.

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July 3rd, the Liz-t

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On This Day

324 - Constantine defeated Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople

1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect was born (d. 1574)

1567 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer was born (d. 1635)

1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain

1767 - Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).

1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)

1878 - George M. Cohan, American composer, was born

1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer was born. (d. 1924)

1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand

1928 - First color television broadcast in London.

1938 - World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).

1947 - Dave Barry, American writer was born.

1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.

1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies) was born.

The youngest child of Geno and Daisy was born.

Do you have more to add to the list?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Thanks to wi- wi- wi-ki-pedia for help in putting this list together.
Yes, I purposely left Tom Cruise out.

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