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Thanks to Week 57 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

After Thanksgiving Link Love — 15 Links that Are Better than Left-Overs

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Can’t Have You Sitting Home with Left-Overs

I’ve collected 15 links for you to read or add to your tool kit over the weekend. A wealth of interesting stories, toys, and treasures.

News Stories

  • Roundup: Digg’s crisis, Odeo, Amidzad’s touch, Mobio’s movies, HAVA for Christmas

  • Best of the Web 2006 Clicke the categories in the sidebar to see each list.

    • Tools for Developers and Developer Wannabes

  • the web developer’s handbook Subtiopics in this resource include: creativity tools, css showcases, css galleries and showcases, color tools, color schemes and palettes, color patterns, fashion color selections, color theory, royalty free photos, css daily reading, css in German, web design daily reading, css theory, css layout, css navigation menu, css technique, css software and Firefox extensions, css web tools and services, html web tools and services, accessibility checkers, miscellaneous tools, javascript, ajas, DOM, fonts, typography, RSS, CMS and forum software, blogging, specifications, usability and accessibility, add a link (free), seo tools, seo references, how to get things done, freelancers, web 2.0, 2reads this week.

  • Online Generators ascii generators, css generators, color generators, domain name generators, email generators. favicon generators. flash generators. form generators. fun & humor generators. graphic & image generators. htaccess generators. metatag generators. misc. generators. password generators. pdf generators. php & MySQL generators. popup generators. robot.txt generators. rss generators.sitemap generators. text generators.tooltip generators. weblog generators.xmnl generators.

  • Curvy Corners Does what it says.

  • Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites Includes links to The Complete List of Visual Studio Add-Ins and Tools, The Complete List of Ajax Tools, The Complete List of CSS Tools. The Complete List of Great Free TV Web Sites on the Internet. The Complete List of Software Development Events to Attend in 2007, The Complete List of Software Development Frameworks, Process’s, Methods, or Philosophies

  • Full Web Building Tutorials – All Free Too many to list.Includes basic HTML examples and color codes.

    • Buzz, Comments, and Links

  • Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking Meausre, observe, analyze link popularity, track comments, get links

  • Blogger ForumTopics include Newbies, Template Design, Link Eschange, Coding, Getting Noticed

    • On Jobs

  • Steven R. Covey on Job Security In this pieces at JibberJabber, Steven Covey discusses the employment cycle, career management, branding and building a real network, and adapting to a new career.

  • A Job Candidate’s Bill of Rights 10 Traits to Expect from an Interviewing Process.

    • SEO/Marketing/PR

  • 10 Shortcuts for Successful SEO 10 Steps to follow.

  • Judy’s Book: Word of Mouth Website You Need to Know About

  • 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic from SEOmoz Solid advice.

  • PRWEB Where it is and how it works.

  • Top Seven Ways How Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business

  • Creating a Slogan from Scratch Define your niche. Test adaptablility. Check for Matches.

    • No turkeys in this bunch. That was last Thursday’s deal. 🙂

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    SOB Business Cafe 11-24-06

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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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

    The Specials this Week are

    Customers Always Are chooses the best communicator to make a point about interacting with customers.

    Debbie Millman describes every kind of creative client I’ve ever been, and I’ve probably been all them in the last two weeks.

    Genuine Curiosity has a fix for tiny email fonts on mobile devices.

    From Jakarta, zlythern explains what to do to be My Bloglogging in a matter of minutes.

    Manage To Change passes on sage advice about how to change the world.

    Be the Change [2]

    Service Untitled is serving executives who want to focus on customers.

    Related ala carte selections include

    Ramblings from a Glass Half Full offers a Joyful Jubilant Learning about the power of belief in humanity.

    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

    Victoria Elizabeth Is a B.A.D. Blogger

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    Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Victoria Elizabeth there?

    Don’t tell the folks in England, but the folks in Canada are only pretending. They might speak to the monarchy over there, but they have a queen over here. She must be royalty. Not only is she called the Quipping Queen, her name is Victoria Elizabeth. You can’t get more stately than a name like that.

    Victoria Elizabeth and I have lot in common — she’s a Quipping Queen and I’m a saloonkeeper’s daughter.

    Once we said hello, Victoria Elizabeth and I spent 3.2476549388254 seconds on the weather and another 2.99875655 seconds talking about her work experience. Victoria Elizabeth, aka the Quipping Queen, was in Business Development and Strategy. Then she found she liked it better, putting those skills to work as a consultant. She’s been online in one form or another since 1994.

    Maybe it was QQVE’s online experience or perhaps it was her royal influence, but we were quickly off the surface and deep into human behavior. We talked about the individuality of bloggers, about how fiercely independent we are. Our conversation included the difference between networking online and networking in person. The Quipping Queen suggested that online connections are specific and narrow — if I want to know about some obscure something, it’s easier to find people who are into just that — blogger relationships are more efficient than real world relationships in that way.

    I get jazzed when someone hands me a thought I haven’t had before. I’ll be cooking that one for few months or so.

    Victoria and I talked about small talk and perceiving information, how they are really the two ends of one linear spectrum. We covered the topics of innovation and creativity and the reasons that schools and businesses don’t support them. We discussed seeing the elephant the room, how a good idea shifts the balance of power, and what makes folks who live by group think get uncomfortable. For a while there, Joseph Campbell’s Power of Myth was topic on the table.

    Let’s just say that we didn’t waste .000000000000001 second on trivial conversation. Bloggers are intriguing, intelligent people.

    B.A.D. Blogger Quote

    If you want to buy stuff off the rack, you might not appreciate what bloggers have to offer. —Victoria Elizabeth aka The Quipping Queen

    Stop by Victoria Elizabeth’s Blog, The Quipping Queen, and say hi!

    Thanks, Victoria Elizabeth, you B.A.D. Blogger!

    –ME “Liz” Strauss
    Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

    Net Neutrality 11-24-2006

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    Net Neutrality Links

    I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

    Nokia to shut VoIP and file-sharing

    . . . It’s not that Nokia has made a U-turn on VoIP. But [its planned bandwidth-shaper] tool would prioritize the traffic of preferred services, giving the control back to partners content providers, says Nokia. File-sharing could be allowed, but for specific contents or at special occasions. With such a development, mobile operators are anticipating some Net Neutrality debate for cellphones.

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    NET NEUTRALITY PAGE