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Great Find: Mama Mouse’s Blogger Help Links

July 9, 2006 by Liz

A Must Have for Google Bloggers

lf you use Google Blogger, Mama Mouse has put together a resource that is a MUST HAVE for you.

Great Find: Mama Mouse’s Blogger Problems Help Links

Permalink: http://mamamouseschatter.blogspot.com/2006/07/help-for-blogger-problems.html

Audience/Topic: All Google Blogger/Blogspot users

Content: Anyone who’s spent time on Blogger knows that customer service isn’t their strong suit. A cumbersome platform that has issues seems just what the doctor didn’t order for new bloggers who often started on Blogger because it was so easy to use. Mama Mouse began this month by listing the problems occuring lately and offering the places help awaits.

You’ll find links to

Blogger Tips & Tricks
Blogger Status (official)
The REAL Blogger Status
Most Frequent Blogger ?’s
Blogger Help – Google Group
Blogger Report Form (official)

in her post and in her side bar. To get to Mama Mouse’s post on Blogger Help, there click the logo below.

Mama, who is an SOB, also writes a great blog too. Thanks Mama!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

While You Were Out Having a Life

July 5, 2006 by Liz

Highlights for Readers

I know that most of you have a real life, and that during this holiday you actually lived it. With that in mind, I’ve collected the recent posts on the most popular topics and brought them together here for you.

Click on the titles of the ones that you want to explore.

Hope this helps make your life a little easier. I know it’s always hard this first day back to work.

Brand you and me.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help with your writing, click on the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Great FUN: IM the Encarta Robot on MSN Chat!

July 2, 2006 by Liz

For Research, Homework, Fun

Keith Dsouza could carry on an intelligent conversation with anyone. So when MSN made a robot toanswer questions based on the information in Encarta. Keith was the perfect guy to challenge the robot to a conversational test run.

He did it to make sure that children everywhere would get the right answers on their homework.

Great Find: Talking to a robot on MSN Chat

Permalink: http://techie-buzz.com/technology-buzz/talking-to-a-robot-on-msn-chat.html

Audience/Topic: Anyone with MSN Chat and questions to research or kids with homework

Content: It’s easy to tell that Keith had fun doing the research and writing this article. He also spent the time to see exactly how and how well a the robot interface works. You can follow his questions and see word for word what the exchange was. The value the robot offers for kids who want to learn more about their favorite subject is right in Keith’s post. I can only imagine what my son might have done with this had it been around when he was young.

At the end of the conversation, Keith explains the easy as 1,2,3 how-to that is working with MSN Instant Messenger encarta@conversagent.com. MSN has found a great way to take on the ubiquitous Gmail with this one.

Keith has a future in reporting for kids. He kept me spellbound. He also might have a budding friendship with the Encarta robot.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

6+1: Writing Voice the Sound of Your Brand

June 19, 2006 by Liz

Yeah, I Hear You

Ever notice when you read some writers’ work, that you can almost hear them? I don’t just mean that they write conversationally. I mean that, well, you can almost hear the pitch of a voice, a twinkle in an eye.

How do some writers do that? How do they become real in your mind while you read? [Read more…]

Bloggy Question 15 — Roadblocks

June 18, 2006 by Liz

If Only I Could

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question.

What’s the single biggest roadblock that stands between you and the successful blog you want?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Seth Godin, Seminars, & What I Almost Missed

June 17, 2006 by Liz

Choosing to Go Isn’t Easy

They say that when the learner is ready the teacher appears.

I had the privilege of attending a Seth Godin seminarthis week. My closest friends can’t believe I managed to get there.

Getting to a seminar is a problem for me. There are so many seminars, and there’s so little time. I have a problem choosing. I don’t really like to commit my time. I really like learning, but I’m leery of things that look like school.

Learning is task that I do by myself. A seminar is a BIG DEAL — It’s an investment of time and money. I have a whole speech that talks me out of such things. I can call that speech up in a second.

“NO WAY! Can’t afford it. No time. Too much to do. Need to be working, not spending. That would be fun. That would slacking. . . . taking the easy way. Can’t buy folks’ wisdom just ’cause I feel like it.”

What a crock!

It’s a great speech. It’s not a valid argument . . . but it works when want to talk myself out of something. It’s not about time or about slacking. NO WAY, No time is my back door to avoiding something that I feel is risky.

Attending a seminar is saying out loud that I want to learn something.

What if I go and it’s not what I thought? What if I don’t learn anything? What if I fall off my bike?

The answer’s the same to all three questions. But you knew that. I had to learn the hard way. I skipped the seminar on the value of seminars. If had skipped the Seth Godin seminar, I would have missed so much more.

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