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The Mic is On: It’s Time to Talk about Dessert!

August 26, 2008 by Liz

It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

The Mic Is On

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Did You Save Room?

So many summer events are about food. We meet with friends, family, and coworkers at weddings, barbeques, and picnics, at conventions and conferences. We share great times over food. Tonight we’re talking about grand and simple desserts:

  • do you save room for dessert?
  • what’s your favorite dessert?
  • what’s the most spectacular, weird, or outrageous dessert you’ve ever seen?
  • what dessert rules do you have, did your family have when you were a kid?
  • does the perfect dessert exist?
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And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)

Oh, and bring example links to share —

–ME “Liz” Strauss
image: sxc.hu
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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: It’s Time for Dessert!

August 26, 2008 by Liz

Join Us Tonight

Did You Save Room?

So many summer events are about food. We meet with friends, family, and coworkers at weddings, barbeques, and picnics, at conventions and conferences. We share great times over food. Tonight we’re talking about grand and simple desserts: Do you save room for dessert? What’s your favorite? What’s the most spectacular, weird, or outrageous dessert you’ve ever seen? What dessert rules do you have — did your family have when you were a kid? Does the perfect dessert exist?

Oh, and bring example links to share —

The rules are simple — be nice.

Do be nice. 🙂

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Filed Under: Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, discussion, letting_off_steam, living-social-media, Open_Comment_Night

The Single Malt Episode

August 23, 2008 by Liz

Another Saturday Night Movie

Social media has become a mash up of friends and education. We’re sharing what we know and communities are forming around that.

Take a look at what happens when Matt Mullenweg sits in at Gary Vaynerchuk’s Single Malt Episode #509.

They say that we’ve become seriously playful.

Social media connects us around information we want to share. That sharing gives us common experience.

What sorts of things do you teach your friends, do you learn from them?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Filed Under: Community, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Gary Vaynerchuk, Matt Mullenweg, Saturday movie, social-media

Last Day to Save 25% on blogworldexpo Registration!

August 22, 2008 by Liz

Join Me at blogworld expo!

join me at blogworld

Are you going to blogworld expo, Sept 20-21 (Executive & Entrepreneur Conference Sept. 19)? I’m going. Will I be seeing you?

The speaker list is filled with folks you know and folks you should meet. The educational sessions offer tracks for executives, entrepreneurs, real estate bloggers, citizen journalists, folks pushing the edge, videobloggers, podcasters, with additional tracks on monetization, new media, and the business of blogging.

Now’s the time to make your commitment.
Register by August 22, 2008 SAVE up to 25%!
Use this promo code –> LSVIP <-- and save 20% more
just because you read this blog!!!

And if you’re in the market for new business cards . . . stop by FrancescoMugnai.com for beautiful ideas like these.

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    See all 70 designs at FrancescoMugnai.com — go take a look now!

    Then bring one with you and we’ll exchange cards when we meet at
    blogworldexpo next month!

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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Save on blogworld expo! Register now!

August 16, 2008 by Liz

Join Me at blogworld expo!

join me at blogworld

Are you going to blogworld expo, Sept 20-21 (Executive & Entrepreneur Conference Sept. 19)? I’m going. Will I be seeing you?

The speaker list is filled with folks you know and folks you should meet. The educational sessions offer tracks for executives, entrepreneurs, real estate bloggers, citizen journalists, folks pushing the edge, videobloggers, podcasters, with additional tracks on monetization, new media, and the business of blogging.

Did you know that . . .

    over 120 thousand blogs are created every day.

    over 1.4 million new blog posts every day.

    22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs.

Remember the high returns of attending a conference?

Now’s the time to make your commitment.
Register by August 22, 2008 SAVE up to 25%!
Use this promo code –> LSVIP <-- and save 20% more
just because you read this blog!!!

I’m going. I’m speaking. Will I see you there?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: bc, BlogWorldExpo

25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom — Pass It On!

July 21, 2008 by Liz

Can 25 Words Change the World?

The Living Web

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom Writing Project. Every selection was an example of the power of writing. When sat down to bring them all together, I wanted to make this one something special.

Thank you for your wisdom!

You shared thoughts about time, love, vacation, death, marriage, waiting, confidence, gathering, parenting, pain, contributing, adversity, beauty, customers, success, financial freedom, joy, open minds, blogging, fear, freedom, accomplishment, action, connection, balance, the past, the future, laughing, relationships, wishes, leadership, Twitter, writing, and changing the world.

Here’s what you wrote.

25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom

view presentation (tags: successful-blog liz strauss project)

Click the single right arrow to move to the next slide. To embed this on your blog or share it with others, just click the “embed” tag on the viewer.

I checked twice to be sure I got everyone’s selection. But if I missed you please let me know and I’ll edit and add you in immediately. The 25-word authors are:

Karin H
Mark
Mark Goodyear
Lisa
stephenpreneurBhupesh Shah
Diana
DazzlinDonnaKaren Lynch
Courtney
RadiantWoman
EdKarl
Robert Hruzek
Ami
JP Rangaswami
Mark
Aaron Stroud
Terry Starbucker
spaceagesage
Claire Raikes Dennis Salazar
Brad Shorr
Mother Earth
Katie KonrathSuzie Cheel
Christine Taylor
Tom Volkar
Todd Jordan Stephen Smith
Peter Knight
Joe Hauckes
theFemGeek
Bobby Clark
Meryl333
Liz Williams
Lara Nieberding
David Taboada
Phil Baumann
Anant
John Cooper
Paul Downey
Paul WhitehouseLillie Ammann
Vicky H
Mark David Gerson
Eric Peterson
Jenny Mannion

Liz Strauss

Click here to view the full-size slide show on Picasa.

To embed the Picasa slideshow on your blog go to http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/getEmbed

Thanks to everyone who participated by writing or reading!

I’ll be updating this when enough new submissions come through.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Filed Under: Community, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, meaning, wisdom, Writing, writing project

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