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Thanks to Week 80 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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National Networker

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

I thank every one 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 directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and 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. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 05-04-07

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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

Lorelle on WordPress delineates the minefields of trying to market to bloggers as a class, a group, or a generic list.

thomas r. clifford has a beginner’s mind and I thank him for this blog post sharing it.

The Blog Studio has some advice on process.

Design Your Writing Life has a series we make need to make it a goal to read.

Passion Meets Purpose has a few re-minders.

Manage To Change answers a key question. Be sure to read the comments.

Related ala carte selections include

Black in Business explains the critical difference.

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

In the end, to make a life better . . .

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I’ve been thinking . . .

about Mihaela, Robyn, and Adam, .all three asked me a question — not the same question, but somehow leading to the same answer . . .

I know that on that last day, I will look upon what went before and see that every hurt I caused could have been avoided, if only I had a little more unconditional love to go around.

The words — words that I wrote in beauty and wonder came from love. . . . But sharp, thoughtless replies could not have left their mark, if I had lived the idea of unconditional love at a trying moment.

The father’s hand that held mine gave me unconditional love. I knew it in my soul, in my fingers. I might have passed that love on with a touch, a kind word, a care to someone’s feelings.

If only . . .

Mihaela, Robyn, and Adam, I made this contract once.

I will be the writer that strives to keep alive the music of the language, to hold head and heart together in the words, and to write with hope and passion that one person is better because he or she read what I wrote. — — Contract with Lisa.

On that last day I will have lived it. I will be that writer, that human being.

I have the power to make a life better through the unconditional love inside me.

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Finding Your Frequency in Business and in Life
Change the World: That One Person Is Better

Interview 16.2 Easton Ellsworth — the Blogger

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Interview and Commentary

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Yesterday, we found out that Easton is a SuperHero! He won our hearts with stories of his work at home schedule. He also shared some great comments with us and told the story of the PEZ dispenser — in the comments following the interview. Today we find out what kind of blogger Eastonis and what keeps him blogging.

How has blogging changed who you are as a person? What do you hope you will still learn from it? What so far is your greatest blogging success?

Blogging has made me more courageous and less selfish – not because of the technology, but because of the activities and relationships I’ve experienced along the way. I still hope to figure out how to decide at any given moment, what’s the most important thing to say and who to say it to, and in what way. Now there’s a lifelong pursuit! I think my greatest blogging success so far has been using blogs to benefit people in spite of opportunities to do the opposite.

What was the biggest surprise about blogging? What is the part you most enjoy? What is the part you could live without?

How personal it is. That’s what I love most about blogging, by far. I could live without the technological limitations we still have to deal with – the latency, the bugginess, the complexity under the hood.

What’s the best advice you ever got from a blogger about anything? What advice would you like to pass on?

I’ve gotten one supreme piece of advice from several bloggers, and there are several ways of saying it: Don’t give up. Be persistent. Keep at it. Stick with it. I might boil that down to one word: persevere. Change your strategy as needed, but always strive for a higher level of excellence. There’s never a lack of opportunities, only a lack of vision. So get out there, believe in yourself and your power to change the world, and use the opportunities that come to you and create them where you can’t find any. You can do it. So do it. Do it!

Easton, you are an inspiration and a friend. I feel lucky to have met you. Thank you for this interview. Thank you for being a blogger.

Meet Easton at SOBCon 07 on May 11&12 — Why SOBCon not that Other One. Register now

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Interview 15.2: Jeff Talks about the Two Myths that Get in Our Way
13.1 Meet Glenda Watson Hyatt
Interview 11.1: Rajesh Setty — Raj’s Story

SOBCon 07 News and Updates 05-03-07

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Eight Days and Counting!

Hi Everyone!
Only 8 Days Until SOBCon!
Then we will start one of the most amazing experiences that I can imagine. Think about it. So many people, who have shared each other’s thoughts, there fully present in one room swapping strategies and learning. It has to be synaptically electric. The thought is stunning.

SOBCon 07

Here’s a bit more of what’s going on.

  • Peter Flaschner of the Blog Studio is giving away a $2000 elite blog design prize to one lucky registrant. To be eligible attendees must be fully registered and paid by midnight Saturday, May 4th, 2007. Don’t miss your chance to win this one!
  • Attendees who have completed their paid registration by midnight Saturday, May 4th, 2007 will receive a free copy of Ted Demopoulos’ best-selling blogging book, “Secrets of Successful Blogging.” This offer good only while supplies last — on a first come, first served basis.
  • Andy Sernovitz, David Armano, Phil Gerbyshak, Wendy Piersall, Mike Sansone, and Liz Strauss will be starting conversations all day Saturday at the conference.

Hotels and Housekeeping

It’s true the Sofitel Chicago Ohare is sold out, but four other hotels are within walking distance and quite lovely places to hang your hat for a night. I know several folks are staying at the Crown Plaza Chicago Ohare. Other hotels within walking distance include the Hyatt Regency Ohare, Embassy Suites Chicago Ohare, and the Doubletree Chicago Ohare. All of the hotels are outside of the airport complex and lovely accommodations. You really can’t go wrong.

We sure could use your help to make SOBCon 07 spectacular. Planning a small conference is a lot like planning a large wedding reception.

If you’re like I am, you wait until the very last second to pay for any event like this one. Yet, everything that happens needs to be provided for in advance. So if, like me, you are waiting, know that if you register now we’ll be better able to plan the menus and the other event extras that will make SOBCon the highest-quality experience.

We want this to be the most incredible content-rich, relationship event that comes off without a hitch. We’re grateful to you and our sponsors for anything you might do to help.

Don’t Forget These, if You Want to Know More

To can hear interviews with speakers on iTunes, click the logo below.

Podcast Series logo and link

Char at Essential Keystrokes has fabulous interviews.

And there are more

Wow! Folks are sure treating us nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
SOBCon 07 limited seating. Register Now!