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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
Logic & Emotion points to a question that’s worth asking.
[The mainstreaming of social networks] has global implications—it’s significant. It’s transforming how we connect, relate and even do business. And it has downsides too. But I have to ask, are we losing ourselves to the word social? And if we are, what’s next?
gaping void points to something many other folks also wonder about.
” . . . I know very little about software. I have never claimed to be that interested in it. What gets me working for Microsoft is that I’ve always been very interested in something else, namely, how people make a living. This is true for large companies, small companies, billionaires and “humble tradesmen” alike. This is why I can work with a large software company like Microsoft, or a small tailoring firm like English Cut, and find them both utterly fascinating. Everybody needs to get paid; that is the great constant in business.”
Office Politics points to how it can be a challenge to work for someone who won’t offer a challenge.
I find this disconcerting because while I was doing my attachment in this firm (prior to being called to the Bar), she hardly said two words to me but once the Firm decided to take me on, she jumped and requested for me to work under her. Now she’s treating me this way.
Black in Business points to a three-part strategy for building and using a resume that works.
These were director level people with staff’s of their own. These 40 something business people had been with their previous companies for several years and had contributed to the success of their organizations. They never expected to be on the market. They do not know each other but had aligned their resumes in the same fashion.
Joyful Jublilant Learning points to tools that open up the digital.
Since there are so many opportunities, philosophies, and ideas that are being developed in the area of digital learning, I simply wanted to share some of my favorite tools. This isn’t necessarily a “Top 10” list, rather, it is ten tools that I use that help to facilitate the learning that takes place for me on a daily basis.
American Pai pointed out a more emotional social network.
Who would want a service that is basically a twitter for emotions and feelings? Can’t we just post how we feel already on Twitter, our blogs and other mediums? Sure, we can and we do, but Moonrise does it in a more powerful and compelling way. Most of all, it’s fun too.
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Random Good Stuff pointed out some stress relief.
Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like. No tips required. Comments appreciated.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Hi Liz.
Let me introduce myself first. I am a student from Armenian University of America (undergraduate student of political science), and now I’m working on my term paper “who sets the agenda?”. And I decided to write about bloggers, but more I read more questions I have. While serfing in Internet I found you blog through technorati. Especially I like that topik “gaping void points to something many other folks also wonder about”. What questions do I have?…. No questions yet, but I have many ideas that we can discuss. I want to prove myself, that even though I don’t have technical background I do really can talk (and write articles) about the problems in Internet, how “human rights” are violated in virtual life and so on.
Please reply me, even if u doubt :))))))))
(Those who don’t have technical background should not suffer from those tricks made up by profs)
Hi Tamara!
I’m not sure who might be tricking you, but we’re straightforward here. Hang around and many of your questions will be answered — possibly some even before you think to ask. 🙂
Thank u so much for the reply :))))))))). Yeah, I do have many questions. First, can I subscribe to your blog?
And the second one (regarding the issues I am interested in, since I am aslo attending our extention program on Internet marketing, B2B and stuff like that):
I truly believed, that when I search for some source in Yahoo, Google or… whatever… the most reliable links appear in the first ten lines, and after the “Next” – nothing worthfull… But one of my classmates said that was commercial issues, who pays more – gets first line. Now I am at a loss – where is the truth?
Thank u again
Hi Tamara,
Paid for links in the major search engines are usually marked as sponsored. Google colors over the paid for links in U.S.
To say that nothing worthwhile follows would not be a true assessment, because the factors that get a page listed have to do with more than just the content, such as whether the webpage code is written to work to achieve higher results in a search engine.
You can subscibe through the RSS subscription at the top of the sidebar or the email subscription box below the clock.
Oh Lizz, two minutes ago I sent u a message, but the internet connectin here is so bad. I won’t repeat everything. I was asking u to (if u have time) look through my trial article for http://www.omfica.org, also if u are interested in u can post it, if not, at least give your grades. I do really need it, I cannot write my own blog (lack sufficient knowledge), but I do really want this article to be read.
Thank u in advance. :)))))))
P.S. I think I managed to subscribe…
Democracy and Web search engines
The significance of the Web in various aspects of our life is unquestionnable. Less well known is the impact of Web search engines on what information we find and consume. Given that 75% of Web users rely on search engines as the primary means to pass through the Web (Bruemmer, 2001), the significance of search engines in an information society should not be underestimated. The sheer size of the Web makes it impossible for a single search engine to cover all Web pages in existence. Different search engines cover different parts of the Web. As websites that are covered by search engines are much more visible and accessible to Web users, the selective coverage of the Web by search engines has great social and political implications.
Given this political and social significance of search engines, it is important to explore the following questions:
1. Do search engines provide an equal representation of websites?
2. How the concept of “equality†is measured in relation to the websites.
By “equal†representation, we mean that the same proportion of websites from different sources is covered, so as to ensure that websites from different sources have an equal chance of being presented to Web users. And in case of “biased†representation the imply may be that this unequality is the result of commercial intentions. This claim seems to be grounded, since the search engine market is dominated by a few monopolies who take the biggest share of the market. Until the present “market failure†exist the unequal representation will continue to persist.
To conclude with, first things must come first and basic democratic principles must preceede any substantive achievement maid on the way of Search Engine development. That is any by-product (search-results) presupposes the machinery, the method that produces them. And Web population users are not required to love or hate the “machine†– they should aim to control it.
And here is one of the possible ways of control – http://www.omfica.org
Becoming Omfica’s members – will give that opportunity to control the oligopolic Giants, that is no person and no company will have an exclusive right to control the centralized data. It will be controlled by millions of Internet users – that is OMFICA members and create fair competitive market for Internet content indexing and search.
Hi Tamara,
I wish I could help you out to that level of glorious detail, but it wouldn’t be fair to the other folks that I work with.
I’m also in the middle of putting on a conference so my free hours are not anywhere to be found.
I’ve got over 3000 articles on this blog — many of them on writing and blogging. There’s a whole page dedicate to New Bloggers. Hope they can help you in place of me personally.
Smiles,
Liz
It’s ok. I understand. I’ve already read a lot of your articles, even cite them during our class discussions :))))))))
Thank u anyway
Tamara
Thanks, Tamara, for understanding. I’ll help with small questions when I can.
Hi Liz, thanks for including me, I posted on the job interview yesterday.
JD,
Your series is an excellent resource. I’m hoping this will help more people find it. 🙂
Hi Liz
I found the following on
http://onemansblog.com/ 2008/ 03/ 29/ 45-ways-to-power-up-your-blog/
“Today I’ll be attending WordCamp Dallas, which Charles Stricklin and I jointly organized. We’ve got a whole line up of fantastic speakers including Matt Mullenweg, Jonathan Bailey, Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell, Liz Strauss, Lorelle VanFossen, Chris Smith, Aaron Brazell, Jacob Santos,…”
Is that also about u? :))))))))))
Yes, Tamara,
I spoke at WordCamp Dallas last month. There are videos of it on the net. 🙂
Cool :)))))))))
You cannot even imagine how far the society I live in is from such virtual life.
I cannot subscribe :(((((, the message is that my e-mail adress is invalid
Hi Liz
It seems that there is no other way to contact u – I recieve messages like the following: “it seems you’ve said that,” or “your mail is not valid” :(((. I wanted to ask u what to do in order to participate in SOBCon08 conferences?
Hi Tamara,
Click on the ad in the sidebar for SOBCon08 it will take you there.