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Thanks to Week 68 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 badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and 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. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Alister Cameron Is a B.A.D. Blogger!

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Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Alister there?

BAD Blogger Button

I noticed him first in my stats. A name like his is kind of hard to overlook. It looks like this

alistercameron.com.

Yes. I wondered who the person was who had bought the URL for an A Lister blog. I clicked through to find Alister Cameron had written a post called The real reason nobody reads your blog that outlined in detail Tony Hung’s first 50 days as a blogger.

Everything Alister said in that post was about relationship blogging. I’m not sure how it happened, but next thing you know we were on Skype and talking. He was kind enough to stay up at midnight to listen to me chatter away. We talked for over an hour about so many things.

Alister and I talked about Melbourne and the people I know and I miss there. I had to get that out of the way because . . . well, relationships after all. . . . Then we got serious about the subject of relationship blogging. We discussed the posts he wrote and how people are the at the heart of everything. We talked about social media and the phenomenon of MySpace. We managed to touch on New Year’s Resolutions, Text Link Ads, and Tuesday coffees with Daren Rowse as well.

I asked Alister why he blogged and he said, “It’s giving expression to the leader in me. I’m wired to want to influence people.” I liked the way he worded that. I liked the thought as well. This is a man who likes his life and himself. No wonder he knows so much about relationships.

The day after the call on an Australian holiday, Alister took time to write a lovely post making it sound like I did him a favor by keeping him up half the night. Only a great guy looks at the world like that.

Since that conversation, Alister and I have talked more than once to help each other out with advice.

Which goes to prove a couple of things.

Alister is a relationship blogger and a fine friend, as well.
I’ve been monstrously slow at getting this post written up.

Oh and it’s even cooler to see alistercameron.com in my stats now.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

Blogging can really bring the best out of you, if you’re the right kind of person. — Alister Cameron

Stop by Alister’s Blog, Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant and say hi!

Thanks, Alister, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

The Mic Is On: $100 Million Winners . . . !!!

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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.

What Would You Do With $100 Million?

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We might talk about

  • when we would claim the money
  • When would you claim the money – right away or after you get your ‘ducks in a row’?
  • how much money $100 Million is really worth
  • whether to hire an investment consultant
  • whether to work or run a business
  • what we’d buy
  • where we’d travel
  • what we’d give away
  • what we’d do about expectations from friends and relatives
  • And, whatever else comes up,

including THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: $100Million Winners!!!!

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Yes the Mic Will Be on Tonight

Join Us Tonight for Tues. Open Comments

The Topic is: What Would You Do With $100 Million?

How would that impact your life? We might talk about when we would claim the money — right away or after some thought — how much money $100 Million is really worth, whether to hire an investment consultant, whether to work or run a business, what we’d buy, where we’d travel, what we’d give away, and what we’d do about expectations from friends and relatives. I bet we have 100 million ideas in our vision , . .

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Thanks to Week 67 SOBs

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muddy teal strip A

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.

muddy teal strip A

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 badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and 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. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Open Mic Wrap-up: Inside Our Computers . . .

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Guess What We Discovered!

Along with the memory and hard drives, there are pages of email, novels, spam, dust-bunnies, stars, nebula, water, poetry and music made from words that all live inside our computers.

If you’re in the market to purchase, will it be HP, Dell or Toshiba and laptop or desktop? The price of monitors is low but do you want a 17″, 19″ or 22″ and is it better to build your own or unpack and go? Maybe go with what you want and need and don’t worry too much about the brand.

There might have been more talk about music, health, tap dancing, weather, dessert, SAHDs, trips, acronyms, karaoke, disco, coffee, movies, cleaning, company, MTV, Akismet, widgets, walking, and family than computers. And of course, we shared Klondike Bars and poetry.

Here’s some of the links we shared:

Special thanks to Joe for holding the fort down when I couldn’t be here at the beginning. You’re my hero! And a special apology to Robert and Steven — I’m sorry I didn’t close down the announcement post. I hate it when I do that!

Thanks to everyone for the cool links and for being part of the conversation. Bring more links next week and we’ll post them again. I wish I could quote you all, but I know you have an idea of how much time it takes.

So, for 2007, we’ll just tell the story and share the links that you bring.

After all, how DO YOU explain Open Comment Night, if you’ve never experienced it?

See you next Tuesday? We sure hope so.
–ME “Liz” Strauss and Sandy Renshaw
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