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Great Find: Laws You Should Know

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Andrew’s Been Researching

Our friend and SOB, Andrew Flusche has recently published an article that brings to light legal basics about work.

Great Find: Lunch, Break, and Hour Laws You Should Know

Permalink:
http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/06/07/lunch-break-and-hour-laws-you-should-know/

Target Audience: All employees

Content: Besides stating the basics of what the law requires be offered for lunches, breaks, and hours worked. Andrew also links to the specifics for every states. Click the title to check this out.

Whether you are starting a business, running one, or working for one, knowing the law is important. If you also value this resource that Andrew has built do digg it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

A Virtual Tour of Yourself

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Four Rooms of My Own

A friend sent this quote to me a few days ago.

There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.” – Rumer Godden

I’ve been thinking about the rooms that I spend the most time in.

A good airing out is as easy as a walk through my house.

What might you do to take a virtual tour of yourself?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Thanks to Week 85 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 every one 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 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

Something about Bloggers and a Chocolate Bar

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I've been thinking . . .

It’s not every day that i meet for dinner people that I’ve never met before. But it was a blogger’s blind date of sorts that brought Ann and me to a restuarant where we found CK, Sean, and Matt.

We were bloggers every one.

Ann, CK, Liz, Sean

. . .
What is it about bloggers that makes conversation so natural? . . . Have you noticed?

Have you seen what happens when we meet? . . . a hug — even the shy ones, the I’m not Kumbayah ones seem to have that part down.

A lack of small talk seems to be the hallmark of wuch a grand event.

Like a first date, after dinner, we went walking, and picking up a detail said in passing ealier, Sean pointed out an Internet Cocoa Bar. We inside for an after dinner conversation about the world, each other, and how telephones work.

At one point we remarked that the little shop would be perfect place to take a first date to extend as evening — just the right amount of intimate, casual, and romantic.

It was exactly what we had done.

Blogger relationships seem to come easy . . . like talking over real hot chocolate in a fabulous chocolate bar?

Sweet.

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SOB Business Cafe 06-08-07

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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

Problogger’s having a party in NYC. I’ll be there. Will you?

Manage to Change tells the highlights of our NYC trip so far.

LifeDev uses Google as a personal example

Ask Delaney Krik has student advice that works for more than college professors. Use college professors as a metaphor for bloggers.

Daily Blog Tips wonders about the timestamp.

Related ala carte selections include

Workboxers has a request.

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

Chas Edwards and Conversational Marketing

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For me, the best part of the Future of Online Advertising Conference today was the presentation by Chas Edwards, Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer of Federated Media. His talk was both up my alley and filled with synchronicity. Chas spoke about conversational marketing — a topic that Dawud and I had been discussing not more than a half hour previously.

The main points Chas summed up were that we need to follow through on each these tasks to make the most of conversational marketing,.

  • Locate your brand. Know it and what it stands for — and stand it firmly on concrete.
  • Follow the leaders and look for opportunities to partner with them.
  • Find the existing conversations. Add to them. Conversations lead to relationships. Be where things are happening.
  • Listen as mush as you speak.

I was lucky enough to have had a short conversation with Mr. Edwards in the hotel visitor’s loungs. I’ve added him to my regular reads.

Do you seek out the conversations about you? Or do you wait for the conversation to come to you?

Sometimes we don’t realized when we make it harder for our customers to talk to us=

–ME “Liz” Strauss