Conversation Means YOU Talk Too
A conversation involves more than one person talking. A conversation means you get to talk too. Research has proven the best adult learning is interactive and inquiry-based. The best ideas come when we mash up the knowledge and approaches from different fields and when we look at ideas from all points of view.
Imagine SOBCon — a room filled with web publishers, many you have met on your blog or blogs like this one.
See the SOBCon presenters. They’re all leading conversations with the audience. Conversation means you get to talk too.
Can you see it? It’s an audience of people engaged in swapping strategies, making valuable contributions, offering top-notch thinking from which you get to choose . . . Here’s just a few of the folks who will be adding value.
- Brad, Sheila, and Marcus, who know how words make connections with readers
- Lisa, who brings the soul of an actress and the mind of a teacher
- Jesse, who can see how a gamer might get over a wall
- Tony, who can diagnose a problem inside a plan
- Dr. Wolcott, who is at the top in the field of business innovation
- Ashley, who brings a painter’s vision and delicate hand
- Sandra, who knows tools and techniques of visual thinking
- Joe, who brings those grounding questions and computer expertise
- Jeff, who understands good to great and will get there
- Tammy, who knows the people in every part of our job and the dynamics of conversation
- Tim and so many others, who bring the heart that calls folks to join with us
- Steve, who is the extreme leadership that lifts us to try
- Dawud, who brings those goals he wrote that prove we express ourselves in our business
- Vernun, who knows how to celebrate others as part of our dream
- Muhammed, who can’t help but provide energy and new ideas
- Robert, who will be there with a practical eye toward what is real
- Franke and Timothy, who know the “group think” of the situation
- Easton, who knows how to organize and monetize without killing the grace of an idea
- Ann and Kent, who are leaders that know presentation is as important as content
- Troy, who thinks big and challenges everyone to take permission to do so
And add to that list people from every walk of business life — corporate innovators, public relations communicators, and the hippest new media contributors — no kidding really. I’ve seen who’s coming and they’re all on it.
Why SOBCon 07 and Not That Other One?
An entire room of experienced minds will be challenging each other to find the best ways of
- engaging readers and connecting with customers
- drawing people into deeper and more meaningful conversation
- using architecture that invites people hang out around and talk longer
- converting visitors into friends and super influencers
- reaching out beyond the blogosphere
And of course, each person’s answer will be different.
Think about that . . . a roomful of minds all looking the same direction — toward how relationships can build a business — your blog, your business.
SOBCon 07 is more than a conference. It will be an experience — a one of a kind.
A roomful of incredible minds, ideas, and choices.
You can’t get that just anywhere.
Can you see the SOBCon difference?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Please, please, please be sure to book your hotel room at the promotional rate before the room block releases on Friday the 13th — the rest of the hotel is sold out.
last night. I read part of The Right to Be Reflective. The writer spoke of time spent at the Boundary Waters (“chains of deep, startlingly clear lakes stretch from the arrowhead country of Minnesota so far to the north you cannot navigate them all within your lifetime.”) 
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