Cam Beck from ChaosScenario shares an interesting insight: : Are you in the business you think you are in? …imagine you’re Wilbur or Orville Wright, who, in addition to running their own bicycle … [Read more...]
Connecting with New People
People talking Here are some simple to follow steps toward developing your people skills and enhancing your network: 1. Be nice, and everything else will fall into place. Our friend and mentor Liz … [Read more...]
Skills for Journalists (and Others too)
Katie Renn prepares for her class, “History of Photography,” in Ernie Pyle 210. Last week, Shel Holtz delivered a keynote talk to the faculty of a university Journalism department. He went out onto … [Read more...]
What I Learned By Eating Pizza from the Wrong End First
Today we are featuring a guest-post from Robert Hruzek: [Note from the Proprietor: The basis for this post comes from an – well, let’s call it an “incident”, shall we? – that happened last year at … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing the SOBCon Secret Project
I have been looking at this for hours: Mike Rodhe made these sketchnotes at SXSW last week and they are fantastic. I have been thinking about doing something like this for SOBCon because I am a big … [Read more...]
SOBCon 2009 Link Roundup
Hello everybody! SOBCon 2009 is over. I know that many of you are sad, but guess what? There is a ton of content out there for you to re-live and re-learn some of the experience. While David Griffith … [Read more...]
Who Is Coming to SOBCon?
Andi Fisher Andi Fisher is. And boy, is she excited about it. She wrote a post about making her decision and it carries some special meaning for me – because Liz had the very same effect on me last … [Read more...]
December Content Strategies
Mack Collier, writing at The Viral Garden, has a very informative post about how to get the most out of the blogging “lull” in December: Use December’s blogging lull to your advantage – The Viral … [Read more...]
SOBCon 2010 Sponsors Announced
Here are some of the sponsors of this year’s event, we are all looking forward to talking with, and learning from, these companies: With Intuit small business services, managing your business has … [Read more...]
WILF Comes to SOBCon
Today we have a guest post from Robert Hruzek, a SOBCon alumnus that I had the pleasure of meeting last year. I am looking forward to spending more time talking to him this year! What I Learned … [Read more...]