Dr.Kirk is hosting tonight and she’s brought her expertise. Tonight we’re talking about advice, websites, and links to tools to use in either training or teaching. What makes a good educational experience for you?
Do be nice. 🙂
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?
On Saturday morning, I had the humbling experience of an interview with Kathy Jacobs, Community Guru of All Voice and a Microsoft MVP, known on Twitter as @CallKathy. We took a few minutes to talk about whatever we wanted.
The primary topic was citizen journalism, but she also challenged me to do some on the spot thinking. hmmm. If you’ve not yet discovered allvoices.com, co stop to see what we’re talking about. It’s a chance to raise your voice above the noise.
As social media connects us online in offline situations, video is becoming a way we get to know each other. Often we first say more into the camera than we have said to each other face to face.
Among all of us, online and off, cameras are no longer reserved for special events. They capture our faces in elevators and on security monitors. We change our routes on sidewalks to avoid cameras pointed where we might walk. We’re using them to mark moments and memories that once might have been fleeting or lost in the passing of time.
Cameras are in backdrop and the foreground. They’re changing the way that we record our lives.
How have cameras changing how you’re being seen and heard in the noise?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Two weeks ago I had a conversation with Teresa Morrow about her business. Right off it was easy to spot that this woman loves her work and loves the people she works with. Everything she said about it made me want to hire her, even though I didn’t have a need. So I did next best thing. I asked her to write about what she does. Meet Teresa.
For any author who wants to place his or her book before online audiences who are most interested in the bookâs message, there are many options to consider. Making choices about what to do when can be overwhelming.
A good option to consider is the creation of a virtual blog tour. This online promotional opportunity is similar to a traditional book tour. However, unlike the brick and mortar tour, the virtual blog tour does not include the hassle of packing clothes, complications of travel, including airport congestion and airplane, train or bus schedules.
The virtual blog tour allows you to bypass the often-tiring and expensive task of traveling from city to city and state to state. Your journey as the author through the virtual tour wanting to reach his or her market is primarily handled through establishing a presence on the blogs of cyberspace.
The process initially begins by the development of a list of bloggers whose audiences would be interested in the topic of your book. The list can include bloggers who have already responded to your book as well research results of new bloggers whose audiences and professional ratings are in keeping with yours.
Ask these online citizen journalists to become one of your virtual blog tour hosts by reviewing the book, allowing you to be a guest blogger, and/or accepting another writerâs review of the book. You can also offer the book as a promotional giveaway item as this has become a very popular and successful virtual blog tour strategy.
The length of a virtual blog tour can vary from seven days to three weeks or more. Ideally, the schedule would be set up to feature your book through on a daily basis for the selected length of your tour. You can further assist blog tour horsts by providing them a book cover image, your author picture and your biography.
In addition you can create a mutual beneficial relationship with your blog tour hosts by highlighting them on your blog or website. The many options for doing this can include links to the hostsâ sites and invites to select hosts to be a guest blogger for you. If the hosts are also authors you can even offer to review their work at a later date.
Donât forget to share virtual blog tour details (tour date, site links and host names) with social networking sites, such as Facebook, Linked In and Twitter.
Promoting your book online through a virtual blog showcases your book and builds important relationships with bloggers with whom you share common reader interests.
Teresa Morrow is on the Florida Board of Advisors with The WECAI Network â⢠and an Editor at Large at WE Magazine for Women ââ¢. She is passionate about working with authors, speakers and writers to manage their business online promotion. She cares about her clients and is available for 20 minute free consultation. You can contact her via email at keybusinesspartners@verizon.net or visit her website at http://www.keybusinesspartners.com.
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Thanks, Teresa! You’re inspiring!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. This group is another that Lorelle turned me on to.
Great Find: kriesi.at new media design
Permalink: http://www.kriesi.at/
Target Audience: Design clients, design fans
Content: Any web citizen who appreciates great design likes to check in what cool designers are doing. The folks at kriesi are subtle in their use of light and color. Be sure to mouse over their nav bar. Click the screenshot to make a visit.
I don’t know them. I’ve never talked to them or worked with them. I just like what they’re doing visually. Notice how you can see through board to the trees behind the “hut” the shelves are in.
Great design engages imagination ways like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,
I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.
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. The 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.
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
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.
Seth’s Blog offers a thought on noisy people.
Should you listen to the loud ones, the ones who call the sports radio stations to complain about the pitching, the ones who post websites about your lousy service, the ones who organize nationwide boycotts?
Talking Story weaves a lesson about friendship and learning.
I find I am thinking about friendship, and what it has done for me over the course of my life.
Punctuality Rules gives journalism new meaning.
Did you ever really think about the fact that ââ¬ÅJournalistââ¬Â has two completely separate meanings?
Blogsessive rocks on blogging.
Have you ever wondered what was it that made blogging turn into such a mass phenomenon, with billions of bloggers and readers spread all over the world?
spatially Rrelevant is inviting community intelligence.
If you find it particularly useful, feel free to let some folks know about it. The concepts in the book are a continuing area of interest for both Sheryl and me, so feedback appreciated.
Pistachio sheds more light on listening.
Any brand looking to ââ¬Ågetââ¬Â social media must learn to listen, first. People are talking about your company, brands and products. Theyââ¬â¢re also discussing preferences and desires about the market your product serves.
Essential Keystrokes shows the gymnastic skills of WordPress.
The first decision I had to make was whether to code the new WordPress site from scratch or to use another theme as a base.
zefrank rejiggers his own memory game.
based on your advice here is an updated version of the Flickr Memory Game :: if you have the time i would love your advice on making it better ::
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