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SOB Business Cafe 02-10-2007

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles written by the
Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click the screenshot to enjoy each article.

These are the selections for this week:

Janice Myint Successful-Blog SOB and Customer Service Team Leader at Technorati answers the two key questions about Technorati this week on her personal tips and trick blog.

For Sumeet Jain and our other friends who are diehard Firefox fans, we have This from BlogIT–15 MUST HAVES for Firefox.

blogit--15 firefox extensions

For everyone who likes to play with photoshop, Martin has turned my attention to this energetic tutorial by Wayde Christie from Performancing.

And don’t forget to stop by the carnival this weekend when you leave.

Carnival of Marketing

Related ala carte selections include
SOB Business Cafe 02-02-2006
SOB Business Cafe 01-27-2006
SOB Business Cafe 01-20-2006

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

The Great Neighborhood Link Post

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Being new to b5media , I wandered down the block to my neighbor’s blogs. I’ve always heard the b5folks are a very friendly bunch. I started with the

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because I needed the fresh air. When I walked in, I was greeted by Duncan’s post on Blog Links Building Traffic and it lead me to a post on

where I could finish reading the original post where Duncan mentions the Weblog Empire Blog Link Exchange Forum.

Thinking I should visit at least one more neighbor before the day was over, I stopped by to see what had been going on this week at Blogging Tips at

Darren has been talking about receiving offers to carry links for payment on your blog and what you should consider before you do. While I was there I found two more links from his article on Hate Links.

These aren’t really about linking, but about not linking up with bad things.

Checking My Google Neighborhood

Google says I should link with my neighborhood, blogs that are relevant and related to my own in some way. I guess I just did. If you want to check who Google thinks your neighborhood is, go to Google Search and type in this search text.

related: [yourdomin.com]

Now I know who in my neighborhood I can visit next.

Making New Neighbors

If you’re looking for more links about links and linking you’ll find these worth linking, uh, looking , into:

Think Before You Link
Blog Promotion Basics for Everyone
Intra-Linking as Promotion
Think Before You Intra-link
Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs

Got Another Link Post?

Of course, there’s always room for more neighbors to stop by here. So if you have a post on linking add it to the comment section of this post. We could start this massive chain of links to posts on linking–just for the fun of it to see where it goes.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

The Marketing Carnival Hits Town at Home Office Voice

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Carnival of Marketing

Where have I been?
This changing networks discombobulates me. I’m not doing it anymore.

Visit the Carnival at Home Office Voice

There’s a Carnival of Marketing at Home Office Voice this Week. Each article was personally read and selected by our own Martin Neumann, journalist extraordinaire and Successful-Blog SOB. He’s featuring some great information by some fine writers there. I happen to know one of the writers fairly well.

Sorry Martin. Next time throw some water on me.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Talk about Google-ing

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Did you notice the new feature in your Gmail?

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Gmail now has a link called Gmail Chats.
Click the link in your Gmail to open a list of contacts.
Click the contacts and you’ll open IM sessions in your browser IE and Firefox.

Google Talk logo

You’ll be set to have voice conversations with your pals for FREE–that’s NO money.

What’s WAY COOL is the way the Google Talk works inside Gmail. Check it out. To quote Google

About Gmail
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

Search, don’t sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.

Don’t throw anything away.
Over 2692.883065 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message.

Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation

Don’t have Gmail?
You might have to wait a while. I tried to open a second account and got a message saying that it’s by invitation only. Guess they figure they’re going to be busy keeping current customers hooked up and going. They’re probably right. Someone tried to call me with this service already tonight. Like I said, “It’s WAY COOL.”

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Content Explorer on a Quest

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When I was a kid, Craig Capitani and I used to go exploring. We’d go across my backyard, down the riverbank, around end of the slough, into the woods on the other side. We got really good at exploring. We went places other kids in our neighbordhood didn’t know about. We could walk right up to the most interesing things by second nature. We found dead fish and arrowheads. We even found a farm with cornfields the other kids didn’t know was there.

We were the Lewis and Clark, the Marco Polos, the Leif Ericsons of our corner of the world. We were always on a quest of some sort. It made life fun. Fun is a good thing.

This week, in his post on the Blogosphere, David Sifry said about Technorati

We track about 1.2 million posts each day, which means that there are about 50,000 posts each hour. At that rate, it is literally impossible to read everything that is relevant to an issue or subject . . .

Here’s my response to that statement. I still see my role as to provide some of that content, but also more than ever as to find out where well-written content already exists . . . to do what my pal, Craig, and I used to–turn over leaves to see what’s under them and kick trees to see what falls out of them.

    The more I sift through (ahem) read to find quality, the less you have to.

    There’s great content out there, and as David Sifry said, it’s impossible for anyone to read it all.

    You do what you usually do. I’ll go on a quest, and maybe I can bring you a Great Reminder, a Great Find, a Blog Worth Checking Out, even something that might knock your socks off every now and then. No dead fish I promise.

    In the meantime, if you have an idea about what you’re looking for . . .

    you could turn this quest into a MISSION, just by telling me what you need.

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

CoComment Echoes

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I used to stand on the hill outside of the house where I grew up, shouting to hear the echo come back . . . now that coComment has arrived, I don’t have to drive 100 miles when I feel the need to hear my echo anymore.

I had my first coComment experience the other night when NZAlan left a comment and took it with him too. That was the night we moved servers for Successful-Blog, and unfortunately about 10 comments were lost. Alan returned the next day and asked about the lost comments. I told him the story. He was able to take his comments from the night before and put them back. WAY COOL!

What Is coComment About?

Duncan Rileyat the Blog Herald has written an indepth review on his test of coComment in Beta Version. Duncan starts by admitting he was a disbeliever. He’s tired of all of the hype around Web 2.0 applications. Can’t say as I blame him. Most are way over done, clumsy, or don’t even work. But once Duncan worked with it, he ended up putting coComment on his personal blog.

What changed his mind? He gave these reasons.

      The concept
      The simplicity
      The lack of bad stuff

I let him fill you in on the details himself. He’s the one who has actually worked with the app and he explains the features and benefits quite well.

What’s the Verdict?

Here’s snip of what Duncan says:

If I was scoring it, maybe 9.5 out of 10. I’ll hold the .5 back because the service still has a few bugs (it is in beta after all), but kudos where its due, I’m likely to be using this service fairly regularly.

Read the review. It answered every question I had. Then click this image link to visit the site.

There’s a box on the front page of the coComment site where you can request an invitation to test coComment for yourself.

–ME “Lizâ€? Strauss