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Link Love Raises Your Property Value

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Springtime Link Love

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It’s spring and a young person’s fancy turns to thoughts of . . . blogging. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it? The blogging version of spring would have to be link love. Ah link love . . . that warm, sweet connected feeling that you get when you click back to Technorati and see that incoming link that means someone loves YOU.

Well, wait a minute. For link love to be coming in, someone had to be sending it out. What is the advantage in doing THAT? Actually, if you know your SEO, there are some advantages to outlinking. [Read more…]

Blogging Allows Folks with Autism Equal Access

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You might not have considered it, but some of the folks who read your blog are probably autistic. Blogs make information accessible to people with autism in ways the auditory information is not.

Being a teacher and a peculiar person myself, I’ve more than a passing interest in how blogging has found a place in the lives of autistic people. Estee Klar-Wolfond is a blogger and the parent of a child with autism. I’ve been following Estee’s blog for a while now. She explains the blogging connection in this quote from her latest post.

Thankfully, the blog is an equalizer of humans . . . It is a universe, a “sphere� without rules, without barriers – faceless, sometimes nameless. It transcends some physical and attitudinal barriers and in this realm, one cannot judge another based on appearance or so-called levels of “functioning.�

Great Find: The Blog and Human Equality by Estee Klar-Wolfond
Type of Article: an editorial discussing the current views on autism and the impact blogging has had on the community of persons with autism
Permalink: http://joyofautism.blogspot.com/2006/04/blog-and-human-
Target Audience: Anyone who wants to know more about how blogging can change the lives of a population
Content: This is a serious read by a sincere author who knows the subject intimately and has done the research. I include it here because I know autistic people are among our readers and because knowing how others process what we write is valuable information. To access the article, click on the quote below by an autistic blogger taken from Estee’s article.

“Zilari� of Part Processing makes a number of comments on her processing time with colleagues at work:

“This is the main reason I prefer reading to listening. I like huge blocks of text I can sift through and find the relevance in. I like how text stays firm within time and does not melt away like sound. I like how reading does not demand every 30 seconds that one speaks to the text aloud and says, “Yes, I’m getting it, carry on!…”

Thanks Estee for sharing what you know with Successful Blog readers.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Did You Drive My Blog Yet?

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Grab the Keys, Take a Spin

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Yesterday I wrote a few words about the Path of Favors–how they multiply and come back in lovely, unexpected ways. I was lucky in that through a path of favors a problem I’d been thinking about had been mentioned in passing. That lighted a doorway where I was able to walk through and enlist some help to move toward solving it.

I did. I asked folks who were reading yesterday to take the driver’s seat. I threw out the keys to my blog. After a minute or so getting used to the steering, we had quite a dialogue. It was fast and furious and filled with ideas that every blogger should know. It’s still being added to.

Whoa! Am I learning a lot. It’s thrilling to hear what people really think.

Thanks Again

Here or there it doesn’t matter where you write if you have comments. What matters is that your ideas are important to me. If you don’t want to drive my blog now, that’s okay. Do read what’s there from those who did. There’s great advice all through those comments. This blog got better just by having them.

Thanks to everyone who did, or will, take the keys and drive my blog.

Brand you and me is made of two.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Do Me a Favor, Read Mark’s Post

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Mark Wade of RWebdesigns.com has a post today about the immortality of blogging in a public form. It’s simple, short, and powerful. Please read it, and then share it with anyone who blogs–your family, especially your kids, your friends, your coworkers, your boss, your neighbors. It’s a reminder that we can all use.

As a past first-grade teacher, I also hope you’ll share the advice that he mentions, on Blog Safety by Jonathan Ezor with every teacher, principal, and school librarian you know. It belongs on school bulletin boards, in libraries, bathrooms and locker rooms too.

Thanks, Mark, for caring about it, for writing it in such a compelling fashion. Well-written words move people to action. Some things are too important not to do.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Why Is Marianne Richmond Smiling?

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Janice Myint and her team at Technorati have put out a fire–Again!

I’ll let Marianne tell you the story. Technorati’s Janice Myint Scores Again!

Thanks to Janice and her team at Technorati Customer Service!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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SOB Business Cafe 04-07-2006

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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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Gary Miller at Blogoplex sends a message to David Sifry and a man named Chris Coffman to find out Gary and Chris seem to claim the same blog, though they’ve never met.

Noel Guinane takes a hard look at the use and uselessness of social network analysis to business.

Javier Cabrera (who has not sent me a comment hug for a very long time–he must be at dinner) shows off his CSS esssentials, which features blogs of high-end design from around the web.

Improbulus explains how the Nextsplogs scam works. If you’ve not heard about this, check it out. This clever new trick uses redirection code to game the Google Next Blog viewing system. Apparently spammers never learned that they’re not supposed to cut in line.

David Starling offers a serious analysis of Google’s current funding and what it means to Google and to us.

The Business of America Google Puts Hair on Its War Chest Article Link

Related ala carte selections include

Chartreuse BETA unravels the story of a webcam “grassroots music discovery” who now looks to be a plant by the recording industry. Once again, he saw something wasn’t right there when her popularity first became a big deal.

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