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The Mic Is On: It's Barry Moltz Talking About Failure

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

The Mic Is On

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

GUEST HOST: AUTHOR BARRY MOLTZ on FAILURE

Bounce! The Path to True Business Confidence

Tonight at Open Comments, Barry J. Moltz, author of Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success, is our host. Join us as we discuss how to achieve true business confidence by letting go of both your failures and successes. It’s time to …

  • Stop letting our egos brag about our successes.
  • Honor our failures.
  • See failure as an ingredient in success.
  • Let go of the fear.

And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)

Oh, and bring example links.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
image: sxc.hu
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Perfect Blogs, 404 Errors, and Humanity

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What Makes a Perfect Blog?

When I talk to an organization considering a blog, they often are aiming for a perfect example of the genre. It takes a while to coax them into realizing that perfection isn’t what they think it might be …

  • to their product team, a perfect business blog showcases the product features in shining glory
  • to their marketing group, a perfect blog is one that gets customer attention and participation
  • to their sales group, a perfect blog generates qualified leads for products that sell and stays sold
  • to their design team, a perfect blog is aesthetically pleasing
  • to their coders, a perfect blog has no 404 errors
  • to their lawyer, a perfect blog is far from controversial
  • to their CFO, a perfect blog costs next to nothing
  • to the CEO, a perfect blog is one that does all of those things
  • to their customers — it connects them to people, ideas, and answers.

In that sort thinking, a perfect blog is something different to everyone.

My experience is that we do best when we move thoughts of perfection to paths of connection. People talking to people is what turns a blog into a community.

The perfect blog is code filled with humanity.

How do you bring the human connection into your blog?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: We're Talking with BARRY MOLTZ About Failure

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Join Us Tonight

JOIN US TONIGHT AT 7PM

GUEST HOST: AUTHOR BARRY MOLTZ on FAILURE

Bounce! The Path to True Business Confidence

Tonight at Open Comments, Barry J. Moltz, author of Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success, is our host. Join us as we discuss how to achieve true business confidence by letting go of both your failures and successes.

Oh, and bring example links.

The rules are simple — be nice.

Do be nice. 🙂

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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My 2009 WordCamp Las Vegas Presentation

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My Presentation at WordCamp Today

Presentation Is Not Conversation

Seven sentences from blog to community.

  1. Show up
  2. Be in with both feet
  3. Be a friend first
  4. Blog your experience
  5. Don’t tie things up in a bow
  6. Be trustworthy
  7. Start small … think BIG

with lots of stories and links in between.

Here are the slides with the hyperlinks. It’s one of the features I love about yudu.

From Blog to Community -- WordCamp Las Vegas Notes
From Blog to Community — WordCamp Las Vegas Notes

When the video is ready, I’ll add it here too.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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SOBCon09 is May 1, 2,3 in Chicago. Register before 2009 and save!

Thanks to Week 168 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 01-09-09

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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

Delightful Work has a clear take on achieving prosperity.
Many have experienced the emptiness of wealth without purpose. Others have experienced authenticity without prosperity. Fewer have experienced both financial abundance and authenticity, simultaneously.

Blogging Without A Blog has a clear take on community building.
People innately desire to belong. It makes us feel safe, secure and wanted. The sense of belonging gives us the courage to speak up and share our thoughts and feelings.

The Harte of Marketing has a clear take on terminology and customer strategy.
The issue at hand, as I see it, is that a lot of people are adding Social Media Marketing as part of their service offerings, but they haven’t spent a day doing the marketing part and because of that they struggle with implementing social media as part of an overall marketing strategy.

ELITEBLOGGER has a clear take on getting traffic.
One of the easiest and best ways to get new traffic to your blog, is to write a guest post for another blog.

Harding & Company has a clear take on innovation.
. . . hunger spoils our judgment. Eager to avoid a financial crisis, professionals sometimes overreach, taking on business they shouldn’t.

Related ala carte selections include

Think Simple Now has a clear take on what’s attractive.
Just imagine the things we would accomplish if we had the belief that we could do absolutely anything, especially if we could maintain a level of self-esteem that no circumstance could shake. What would you be doing?

Gas Pedal is sponsoring a social media event.
Executives from 8 Fortune 150 companies are going to share insights, stories, and case studies on how they do corporate blogging and social media.

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