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The Secret’s Out: SOBCon 07 Is in Chicago May 11-12!

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It’s Amazing!

It’s amazing what can happen when a tiny brat pack of relationship bloggers has an idea they think is worth pursuing . . .

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SOBCon ’07

Take Your Blogging to the Next Level

A Relationship Bloggers’ Conference and Networking Event

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Head over to the SOBcon URL http;//www.sobevent.com and get all of the details. There are only 250 seats available.

Gosh, we’d be grateful if you’d pass the word to your friends about it. It’s too cool to keep from sharing the news with your friends. Don’t you think?

The best part is that you won’t be a stranger, because I’ll be there! I can’t wait to meet you in 3-D!

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The nGen Works Team Is One in a Million!

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Joe Says So

One-in-a-Million by Trée George and Sandy Renshaw

For the One-in-a-Million-Category of:

Planning ahead so that when a Tornado or Hurricane or Any Natural Distaster strikes their Virtual Warehouse will be up and running within 24 hours to help get goods and services to those most in need by connecting the right people on the ground with the donors and volunteers who want to help as they did in Central Florida

The winner is The nGen Works Team

This award was submitted by: One-in-a-Million Cohort: Joe Hauckes

Thanks, Joe, for seeing the one in a million in another blogger! Thanks Trée George and Sandy Renshaw for the logo that shouts it out!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Mike Sansone Conducting Relationships

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It Takes a Train Guy to Start a ConverStation

Did people build the trains and then the towns spring up around them? OR Did the towns start while the rails were being laid? I don’t know, but I know a guy who does. Mike Sansone knows that the railroads forged relationships linking people in the same way that bloggers link and interact online, by voice, and in person.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Performancing Is Now with SplashPress Media!

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SplashPress Media Buys Performancing

Today it’s been announced that SplashPress Media has acquired Performancing.

You’ll find the official story on the front page of the Blog Herald, one of the independent flagship properties owned by SplashPress Media. The Blog Herald — run by Editor (and S.O.B.) Tony Hung — reports that

According to David Krug, “Over the last year Performancing has built up a large and loyal community of bloggers from all walks of life. They have created and provided tools and quality resources to bloggers and blogging communities.We wish to continue providing the blogosphere with affordable tools to help people join the new media revolution . . . We look forward to carrying that vision forward and farther.”

Performancing will also be run independently of other SplashPress Media properties. David Krug of 9:o1am will be General Manager of Performancing moving forward.

An exclusive podcast interview with David Krug is available at Technosailor.

Darren Rowse has more coverage on the sale at Problogger.net.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

We’re Talking Fiction: They Say It Didn’t Happen . . .

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Once Upon a Comment

It was a dark and stormy comment. No, no, not really. Everyone was quite cheery. Joe and Nneka walked in talking about Nneka’s first attempt at fiction. Romance, Sci-Fi — It was mentioned that SF ii the proper term these days. — Fantasy, Mystery, Detective Stories, Chick-Lit, Children’s Books . . .

We talked about snuggling with a good book on a rainy day, under a comforter with jazz playing in the backgound. Some of us lament the fact we hardly ever have time to read these days. We also gave Monique more challenges to write about on her insurance blog.

Who knew that Starship Troopers was a book? Who guessed it was required recommended for the marines?

And did you know that Aliens is “Jaws on a spaceship”.

Lee Child’s hero, Jack Reacher, makes Jack Bauer look like a wimp.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie . . . is a wonderful book!

If you give a blogger a comment, she’ll want a link to go with it. And if you give her a link, then she just might get inspired.

“Blogging makes you smarter.”

“I’ve always felt guilty about it, but I think Hemingway is a great writer and I hate his books.”

We shared some links:

Some of the Books and Authors

Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Greg Mandel detective novels.
“The Great Gatsby” and “Murder on the Orient Express”
Lord of the Rings
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
In Her Shoes is by Jennifer Weiner
Elizabeth George and Nelsom DeMIlle
Lee Child
“All We Know Of Love”
Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”.
“Black Beauty”.
Farmer in the Sky, The Star Beast, Tunnel in the Sky, Starship Troopers
The Time Travelers Wife and The
Poisonwood Bible
Mary Shelley’s original Frankenstein
Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Ernest Hemingways’ “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Ender’s Game
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
the mystery series by Sue Grafton
Plebas
Charles Dickens
Douglas Adams book Last Chance to See
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Utopia, Thomas More
Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter;
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Nevil Shute On The beach

Thanks to everyone for the cool links and for being part of the conversation.

See you next Tuesday? I sure hope so.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?

WANT TO GUEST HOST AN OPEN COMMENT NIGHT WITH ME? PICK A THEME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT.C’MON IT’LL BE FUN!