Successful Blog

Now YUDU It! to Win a YUDU PLUS Account or maybe a MacBook Air!

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ARE YOU READY TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH?

The slideshow of the Brand New Blog Feeling went up earlier this afternoon. It was a thrill making it, because as I worked with captions and photos it seemed as if I got know the people who sent them in.

What was also a thrill was explaining to the folks I work with at YUDU Digital Publishing how they might be a collaborative active part of what we’re doing on our blogs. They “get” it. That’s very cool.

And as a result, today I’m announcing how the contest that just ended has spurred another one.

YUDU It! to Win a YUDU PLUS ProAccount or a MacBook Air!

If you join in an make a simple slide show of 5-10 slides, your show will be judged by a team from YUDU.com and the top entry will receive a YUDU PLUS account. That’s a big deal, believe me. A YUDU Plus Account unlocks some even cooler features, that are coming to market just this week. YUDU PLUS includes these treats and more. You can

  • Do ecommerce. Put your documents, music and special photos up for Sale and name your Price.
  • Have automatic document protection that helps Prevent Copying and sharing with people who haven’t paid.
  • Make professional documents with mutlimedia embeds using YUDU Plus editing suite. Upload a New Cover; rearrange, Add or Delete pages, select different Language toolbars, change Backgrounds, add Page Links and link Photos and text to external websites.
  • Embed your library in your Website or blog, and when get collect 10% of the signup fee.

The YUDU contest for the MacBook Air requires signing up friends. BUT as part of this YUDU It! contest if you tag your entry Blogger 908, you’ll be automatically entered to for a chance to win without having to pull out that address book.

Here’s what you need to know . . .

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I did it. I made two slideshows just this week. It’s your turn — will YUDU it now for a chance at:
YUDU PLUS account valued at US$180
and
A MacBook Air? Or maybe just to see how well you do with YUDU.

You know what I mean.

BTW, YUDU is looking for beta testers for this new launch. If you’re interested, please email me.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
See the Work with Liz!! for how to start some business rolling for yourself.

BRAND NEW BLOG Slide Show and the Now YUDU IT! Challenge

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A Time Line of Digital Publishing Buzz

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Four weeks ago I tried to break WordPress here by releasing a blog post every minute to showcase 260 of your blogs. That event got the attention of BlogDesignStudio, who said to me, “We’d like to offer to your readers 50 of our Edge, Premium Theme, to boost their blogs.”

A new event came from the first.

Eleven days ago: We launched that event. It was called, That Brand New Blogging Feeling Event. Fifty participants each received a copy of the Edge WordPress Theme and a copy of my eBook The Secret to Writing a Successful Blog in return for submitting a photo with a caption describing the feeling of writing their first blog post.

I promised to compile the entries into a published whole.

Three nights ago, Tim Sanders and I were talking about the Responsibility Revolution happening in business. He spoke about green publishing which got me talking about the carbon free digital publishing platform I used to build the Brand New Blog slideshow.

Two days ago YUDU.com — that carbon free publisher, who now officially is my client — thought it was great idea when I said this a cool opportunity to sponsor a contest. So check out the slideshow of all your cool photos and captions on YUDU — where the site links actually link back from the photo pages.

But do remember to come back because what we have planned next is something also cool with cool prizes too.

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OR click the link under the slideshow to see the ENLARGED version
in its natural habitat as two-page spreads.

ARE YOU READY TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH?

I made this slideshow. Now it’s your turn.
The folks I work with a YUDU are blogger friendly. When they heard about what I was doing they wanted to be a bigger part. We talked about the possibilites and the next thing you know we were defining

NOW YUDU IT! Challenge at 1pm 3pm Chgo Time Today

Start with a free YUDU account.
Get a chance to win a MacBook Air!
The TOP entry will get a US$180 professional acount at YUDU.com

Details will be on this blog at 1pm 3pm Chicago time today!
(See the clock in the sidebar to set your watch.)
Will you take the challenge?

C’mon, I did it. Now YUDU It!

If you would like a .png of the slide for your photo, you’ll find in the flicker set.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
See the Work with Liz!! for how to start some business rolling for yourself.

Why We Touch The Rock

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Beach Notes by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel

A Daily Habit

Each day when Des & I walk on the beach we have a habit of touching the rock at one end of the beach.

and the other.

We started this daily habit not long after we started walking on this beach 4 years ago. We noticed the resident patriarch of the morning beach walk tribe, Frank touching the rock. We learnt it was an unwritten rule, so we followed suit.

A guest staying with us last year observing this ritual asked: “What happens if you don’t touch the rock?”

Well nothing happens!

By touching the rock at both ends it is a way of ensuring that we have completed the full distance. without having to think about it.

I recently thought about how I might apply this to other areas of my life to get more completed efficiently. In other words have some kind of simple ritual to help me complete one task before moving to another. I am not sure how that fits with multitasking, but I am working on it.

“What’s your equivalent of touching the rock?

Great Graphic Ideas: Nebon Media

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Cool Things Are Happening

If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. Lorelle shared this design group with me.

Great Find: Nebon Media

Permalink: http://www.nebonmedia.com/en/inthehut.html

Target Audience: Design clients

Content: Any web citizen who appreciates great design likes to check in what cool designers are doing. The folks at Nebon Media have some great ideas. Take a minute to check them out. Click the screenshot to make a visit.

I don’t know them. I’ve never talked to them or worked with them. I just like what they’re doing visually. Notice how you can see through board to the trees behind the “hut” the shelves are in.

Great design engages imagination ways like that.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
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Thanks to Week 151 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

Useful Conversation, Relaxation, or Time Spent?

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I've been thinking . . .

about conversations with friends.

Last night I had a conversation about social networking with a good friend, it went something like this.

My Friend: On August 1, I had 166 followers and now I’m over 400.

ME: So?

My Friend: Surely you’ve heard that in sales it’s all about the numbers. But you’re saying numbers aren’t the only thing.

ME: So, these people, your followers, are the people who are going to buy from you?

My Friend: You’re saying the key is to convert them into buyers. That’s why I’m networking — having conversations like this one.

ME: What’s the purpose of collecting a higher number of followers? Are those followers the right people for “networking”? Do they move your story forward? Is it useful conversation, relaxation, or just time spent?

My Friend: You’re saying “go after the ones I want to be my clients.” Qualified leads would raise the level of my business. I see your point.

ME: I like this dialogue. You find the answers and give me credit for saying them.

My Friend: You’re saying I’m a good friend to have a conversation with. . . .

— That’s not exactly how the conversation went, but it’s MY story.
He can tell it his way on his own blog. —

How would you tell my friend to adjust his networking time spent to make it a more purposeful investment?

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