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Warning: The Relationsheep Are Hosting Open Comment Night, Tuesday November 6th!!

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Will They Break the Internet?!!

The interview that RelationSheep Lisa Gates did with Phil Gerbyshak in celebration of Successful Blog’s 2nd Birthday was such a hit that when I realized I would be gone November 6th, they were the natural choice to host Open Comments that night. I asked them before a thought even breezed through my mind. That’s right.

RelationSheep: Lisa Gates and Phil Gerbyshak

RelationSheep, Lisa and Phil, Are Hosting Open Comments,
Tuesday, November 6th, 7pm Chicago Time

Then we started discussing topics . . . oh my! It’s going to be a free for all. Kids in the backyard. You know Phil’s imagination and Lisa’s sense of humor . . . add in some of the usual Tuesday night group and you can imagine what they’ll come up with.

The Topic Is

Liz Is Away — Time to Play

You know that they’re going to encourage

  • misbehavior and rowdiness
  • tree climbing and jumping on the beds
  • eating Klondike Bars instead of healthy food — Oh wait, we do that anyway . . .
  • and flamenco dancing with a code-writing donkey and a drunken moose .

I’m really sorry, I’m going to miss it. Then, you never know, I just might find a chance to check in.

So start saving your links, or better yet, why not write a post that you can bring a link to?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Thanks to Week 106 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 11-02-07

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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

Chrisg says “… Social Media is a popularity contest. It’s a lot like high school really. Being nice is great, but being popular and having lots of friends is far more important.”

StartUp Princess says, “Instead of getting depressed today about how far I have to go to get organized and establish much needed systems to run my life, family, and business better, I decided to look at what systems ARE working and then see how I can tweak them up for other areas.”

Dosh Dosh says, ” By examining your intentions or goals, you can reverse-engineer your entire blog and easily determine what type of content you should create in order to have the best chances of achieving your aims.”

Smart, Wealthy, Rich says “Well, the goal was to get 1000 subscribers in the first month. Which would have been quite awesome, but it didn’t happen. Instead, it took 3 months to get 1261 RSS readers. Don’t get me wrong, I think this is pretty nice! 🙂

Sometimes you gotta aim high, and then re-adjust. That’s what I did.”

Steve Olson asks, “Some common headlines I see are about how the poor are getting poorer, the middle class is losing ground, and that there is less opportunity today than in the past. But is it true?”

the Artsy Asylum says, “Truth be told not many people can afford the time to spend hours helping us create our Second Life presences for goodwill alone – so many of us do it ourselves and go through multiple incarnations before we get it even close to what we want. It’s not a pretty process.”

Related ala carte selections include

Orbit Now! says, “Here is my spin. It is perhaps NOT as sticky, but that should come as a surprise to no one.”

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

Comments 441- 680+: 34 Links from Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

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Indescribable! — Part 3 birthday balloon

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On October 24, 2007, Successful Blog celebrated our 2nd birthday since my first post here. YEA!! It was a wonderful time.

Every person who came was a gift to me. Every voice that spoke was heard. I went back and read every word. Thank you for all coming around.

My dad wasn’t here, but this is the kind of birthday that would have happened in his saloon. I know. I know. I was there.

Thank you for the successful and outstanding links that you shared.

To end this I’d like to take a quote from the post at the CustServ blog. Meikah said it in such lovely words.

The road is long and bumpy at times, but with everyone’s help, I know we can make a difference.

Don’t forget the Good Blogs made an SOB widget!! Get the code for the SOB widget here.

I’m one lucky blogger to know all of you!
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is On: It's About Halloween, of Course!

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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.

Boo!

Here’s a few ideas to get us started:

  • Your favorite costume
  • Treats you give out
  • Traditions in your family and community

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 Halloween to share!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: It's about Halloween!

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Yes the Mic Will Be on Tonight

Join Us Tonight

That’s Right . . .

We can talk about your favorite costume, what kind of treats you give, traditions in your family and community and whatever else comes up — even flamenco dancing.

Oh, and bring links about Halloween to share!

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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