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Thanks to Week 116 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 01-11-08

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SB Cafe

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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Drew’s Marketing Minute got creative.
So I decided to continue along the vein that the ladies started. So, without further ado, here are 10 things you didn’t know (and neither did they) about Toby and Liz.

Interesting Observations had an experience worth sharing.
I certainly was surprised when this is exactly what I was told by a dear friend Karen Zara of abaminds the other day. I had mentioned to Karen that I was a bit in a dilemma as to what topics I should be writing about since I had no particular niche

Instigator Blog designed a new look.
Design matters. A great, well-polished design raises the bar of your blog instantly. “You only have one chance to make a first impression.” And it’s a shame and waste when you don’t make the right impression off-the-bat.

My Beautiful Chaos received a nice surprise.
I don’t usually read email forwards, but this one from my friend Megan Dyson was short enough to skim. It caught my attention and I read it two, three, then four times.

Jibber Jobber had a question.
That morning he came into my office and shared with me that he was pretty sure I would be let go on the board call.

Sifry’s Alerts has a reminder.
I’m working from home today, so I kicked off something that I really needed to do for a while – I’m running a fully bootable backup of my primary computer onto one of my portable hard drives.

Related ala carte selections include

Lorelle on WordPress talks toys.
There are lot of fun things to do on the web besides just playing traditional games and shoot ‘em up games. This week’s blog challenge is:

Blog a listing of your favorite online toys and play things that aren’t “games”.

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! See you when I’m home again!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

The Mic is On: We're Talking about What We'll Learn or Teach …

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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.

… this Year

We might talk about:

  • becoming a speaker, a skier, or a rockstar
  • learning to drive a speedster, drive a golf ball, fly a plane
  • teaching writing, illustration, or how to dance the cha-cha
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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 links about learning and teaching to share!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?

Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: It's about What We'll Learn or Teach …

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Join Us Tonight

… this Year

We might talk about becoming a speaker, a skier, or a rockstar, learning to drive a speedster, drive a golf ball, or fly a plane, or teaching writing, illustration, or how to dance the cha-cha and whatever else comes up — even flamenco dancing.

Oh, and bring links about teaching and learning to share!

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Related article
What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?

THANKS to Week 115 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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Business of Design Online

They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

deep purple strip

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

What Do You Do When One SOB Wants to Meet Another?

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This Was Not Pre-arranged

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I just got home from a day of meetings. I had plenty of catching up to do. I was getting ready to write a post to make an exciting announcement, but I thought I might check in on a few of my friends first.

Blogger synchronicity!

Can’t believe that I found a perfect way to pass on the information I had to share. It was in a one2one conversation response from Dawud.

Dawud, I’d Like You to Meet Muhammad

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It seems that one Successful and Outstanding Blogger, the designer of the SOBCon08 blog– Dawud Miracle —

would like to meet another Successful and Outstanding Blogger — a social media rockstar and SOBCon08 presenter, — Muhammad Saleem.

Somehow the two didn’t get a chance to meet when they spent an entire day in the same room. . . . at SOBCon07!

Muhammad Saleem

So what’s the SoBCon team to do, but do the conference over?

We’ll keep doing it, and doing it, and doing it until . . . aw c’mon, word was we got it pretty darn right last time.

The Dates Are UP!!

Oh yeah, the announcement I was going to make: Today we posted the dates, May 2,3,4, 2008.
Click the logo to visit the official SOBCon08 blog.

The schedule is up and registration will be opening soon, before the month is over.

Hang in there! The SOBCon experience is rolling again!
If you want to volunteer or join us as a sponsor, leave a note in the contact form.

Who do you want to meet at SOBCon08?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!