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The Mic Is On: We're at the Beach!

July 10, 2007 by Liz

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.

Come On!

There’s plenty to talk about. Here’s a few ideas to get us started:

  • Where we love to go
  • Whether we prefer sand or rocks
  • Would we like it warm or cool, sunny or cloudy
  • Who will go with us
  • What will we take
Beach

And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey.

Oh, and bring links about the beach to share!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: Let's Go to the Beach!

July 10, 2007 by Liz

Yes the Mic Will Be on Tonight

Join Us Tonight

We’re Going to the Beach. . .

It’ll be fun!

We can talk about where we love to go, whether it’s sandy or rocky, warm or cool, who we go with, what we take, and whatever else comes up.

Oh, and bring links about the beach to share!

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog

July 10, 2007 by Liz

In Case You Missed It

bloggy tags small

Vovo over at Business Traffic Ideas threw this idea to me. He caught it from Patrick Schaber at The Lonely Marketer who spotted the idea originated by Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM.

The thought is that so new subscribers in recent months might like to know about posts from times gone by.

12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog

Every human is drawn to what we like and away from what we don’t. The beauty of a well-written checklist is that it checks for what we might have forgetten. The best blog promotion is quality — content, design, and linking. Use this dozen checklists to give your blog a spit shine and show it off.

  1. Classic Revisited: The Blog Review Checklist
  2. Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs
  3. Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist
  4. Choosing for Our Readers: A 5-Point Pop Quiz
  5. Blogs Aren’t Books, But Revising Is Still Revising: 6 Gating Questions to Make Revising Easier
  6. 6+1: How-to Blogging — Stomp Out Swiss Cheese Knowledge
  7. Eye-Deas 3-Photo Content Checklist
  8. Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist
  9. A Blogger’s Personal Narrative Checklist
  10. Checklist for Starting a Directory Listing
  11. Blog Design Checklist

Taking care of the details, any designer will tell you is the killer app in the most elegant and well-cared for presentations. Any great writer will agree with that opinion. Yes, one after number 7 is missiong. 🙂

Quality feels satisfying to generate and to use. Quality is a blog’s best promotion of all.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you find your strategy, click on the Work with Liz!!

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The Blog Herald: Information Geek Meets Relationship Geek's Book

July 10, 2007 by Liz

Information Geek in Danger?

One of the most memorable moments of SOBCon07 was Jeff Brown’s statement about Kum-ba-ya-ers and business bloggers. No matter who hears me talk about that moment, if they were there, they remember it with a grin of “ain’t it the truth?” That’s because the famous Bawldguy, Jeff, was talking about the preferences folks have toward relationships or information as their personal strong suit.

So, when the time came to talk about the book by the consummate Relationship Geek, Phil Gerbyshak, I thought, perhaps, I was not the best choice. I found the right guy up in Edmonton. He’s Greg Balanko-Dickson, and he’s a self-professed Information Geek . . .

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Better Comments Manager — Reply INSIDE the WordPress Dashboard

July 9, 2007 by Liz

I Want One!

From the first I started corresponding with Keith Dsouza, he’s been a special one — talented and creative. He can ask a simple question and turn the answer into a blog post. . . . Keith is one surprise after another. The biggest of all was when I turned around at the problogger meetup and heard a guy say, “I’m Keith.”

Keith is the guy who developed Better Comments Manager for WordPress. If you’re on WordPress and you don’t know about it; you’re missing something . . .

Great Find: Better Comments Manager
Permalink: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/better-comments-manager-just-got-better.html
Target Audience: WordPress users
Content: Put simply the Better Comments Manager plugin allows publishers to respond to comments from inside the WordPress dashboard — rather than making us wait for another pageload to type in the comment on the page itself. The process is easy.

  1. Click reply.
  2. A box will appear.
  3. Type a reply in the box.
  4. Click save reply.
  5. A message will say it’s being saved.
  6. The reply will appear as a comment in the lists.

To check this out, click the title below.

Better comments manager just got better

This is cool.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you find your strategy, click on the Work with Liz!!

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Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 6

July 9, 2007 by Liz

Get Closer to You

This is a series of questions, I don’t know how many. They are the ones I ask when I help folks get closer to their personal identity.

What one trait would you look for in a mentor?

I’ll answer first to get things started.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Filed Under: Bloggy Questions, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, branding;-self-actualization, Questions-to-Get-Closer-to-You;-personal-identity

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