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SOB Buttons and Directory Update

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The SOB Directory and other pages are under construction. New Pictures. New Presentations. I thought it best to keep the Directory undercover until I got more of your bios in. So start sending them . . . . hint, hint, grin. 🙂

The SOB Button Still Exists

If you are an official SOB and need a new one. Here you go.

SOB Button

By the way, please feel free to adjust the size to fit your blog design. We want SOBs to have Successful and Outstanding Blog Designs too.

If you’re anxious to become an SOB, just link a post to share it with your readers. Write about it to add value to the conversation, and email me at lizsun2@gmail.com with a link to your post.
That’s all there is to it.

More New Features Are Coming

So hang in there. The fun is just starting. Some really strong articles are coming too.
We’re becoming a Magazine AND a Community for Outstanding and Successful Bloggers

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Introducing Simplenomics

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SOB Directory Entry: Simplenomics by Mike Sigers

Categories: Sales, Marketing, Entertainment

Simplenomics, written by Mike Sigers, is trying to give the world a look at how to use common sense to get more out of your sales, marketing, advertising and management efforts. Mike’s not for sale at any price, so don’t ask for consultation time. Well, you can ask, but send money first.

Notes from Liz: I swear that Mike’s directory listing was in my email before I even posted the announcement about the SOB Directory. I’m not sure how he knows things so quickly. It was Mike’s idea, you know, that SOBs should get buttons for their blogs.

Maybe Mike and I are really the same person. I’ve never seen us in one room at the same time. Hmmmm.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Has your SOB Blog Been Introduced to US?
Blog Promotion: May I Introduce You?

65th Crayon Finds that Google Doesn’t Use Search

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Thought I’d share this Sunday fun while you’re waiting for the boxes to get opened. . . . a piece I’m running today on my personal blog.

This Just In from The 65th Crayon:

When he got the call to attend a meeting at Google headquarters, The 65th Crayon was a little perplexed. Our reporter friend hadn’t been there since he had taken them to task last fall for the problem of dlites and dlogs–fake websites and blogs set up by dogs–in the case of the invisible dog spamming the Internet.

“I thought they might be calling for a follow up report,” said our supersleuth reporter, “or I considered that they might have had some new ideas about related Adsense Words. To my surprise, it was nothing of the sort.”

At this point, our remarkable friend pulled a red plastic egg from his pocket, saying “You might not remember these. “This is the original Silly Putty, made from the work of engineer James Wright, who was trying to invent a new kind of rubber. It became a famous toy when it was introduced on the Howdy Doody Show. Since then kids have been pulling, turning, and twisting it and of course, pressing it against the newspaper to pick up pictures.”

“It appears that Crayola the company that sells Silly Putty now offers it in another size–Silly Putty Bulk–and several colors. Apparently the engineers at Google decided that they needed a lot of it.”

The Google engineers tell the story quite well at the Google Blog. This image shows how they put the bulk shipment they were going to share together in a pile for a picture. Later, they couldn’t pry the Google glob apart so that each owner could claim his or her blob of the bigger glob. That’s why they had called in the 65th Crayon.

“Silly people. They thought I might be able topull apart 250 pounds of stuck together Silly Putty. Had they used their famous search engine, they would have known,” the 65th said seriously. “You always call in the crayon expert before handling explosives or Silly Putty.”

Then in usual fashion, our reporter friend tied his trench coat belt and walked off, like Humphrey Bogart.

–me strauss Letting me be

Scribbles: A-Go A Coloring Party

For links to additional Scribbles Reports by the 65th Crayon see the sidebar.
Scribbles Reports by The 65th Crayon appear every other Sundays in Letting me be …
The 65th Crayon is a copyright of ME Strauss. All Rights Reserved.

Click once For Sumeet Jain

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Do you know Sumeet Jain? He’s a CSS whiz. Sumeet Jain came through when I had questions about my blog more than once. He’s an official SOB and a member of our community.

I know we can do this. After all it’s what communities are all about.

Hi everyone!

Some of you may have heard me rattling on before about a project I’m involved in called CalTV. If I haven’t yet given you that spiel, it’s basically a news site run like a video blog of student interview from UC Berkeley.

The next step for us at CalTV is to allow people to post their own interviews by filming themselves from their cell phones. We’re calling this Outspoken Architecture.

Naturally, this kind of functionality takes a lot of time and effort… and money. Motorola is holding a contest for seamless mobility, and our Outspoken Architecture is a finalist! We have a great opportunity here to get some funding, and you can help us out greatly by taking a quick moment to cast your vote for us.

No registration is needed. Just click the link and we’re voted for. There’s even a PDF of our mission if you’d like to make a more informed decision.

Here’s the link: Motorola finalist–Outspoken Architecture

Thanks a lot for your support. Oh, and if you know anyone else who might be interested in this kind of thing, feel free to let them know about the voting 😀

Adios,

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Sumeet Jain

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Let’s show Sumeet Jain and CalTV what a great community we are.

Smiles,
–ME “Liz” Strauss

Please Excuse The Boxes

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Hey there!

I’m almost home. The art is still in boxes and the walls still nead some decoration. So while you’re waiting our design touch ups, I hope that you’ll excuse the boxes and the dust.

In the meantime, I’ll leave some links and things that you might find useful while I’m cleaning up. Sorry to the SOBs I’ll get your logos back up there as soon as I can.

MY Fonts
A place to shop for fonts to spruce up your blog for the new year.

Photo-Based Color Palette Generator by Jeff Minard
Have your color palette computer generated to match your favorite photo.

HTML Tutorial
Use this tutorial when you need to spruce up your html coding skills.

And do stop by my new business blog:

Biz.erati with Miz Liz.

I miss you guys. Come leave a comment.

See you soon when this is the reregistered Successful Blog and it has its final design.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great NEWS!

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Great News
to Announce

It is with great pride and sincere thanks
that I announce that Mr. Paul Scrivens and I
have reached an agreement in which I will become
the sole owner of

Successful Blog

What that means for our community is that Successful Blog
will be getting a new design and a new host.

Thank you, Paul Scrivens.

It’s been a pleasure doing business with you.
I hope to do so again in the future.
Sincerely,
ME Strauss