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Chris Cree Shares Why SOBCon ’07 Will Be a Different Conference Experience

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SOBCon ’07 will be a different kind of conference. We’re all about community and building relationships with other bloggers.

We spend so much time writing to each other (and sometimes about each other) that it is sometimes easy to forget that there is an actual person who is doing that writing on the other end.

I thought it would be a good idea to give you a little voice message and share why this conference experience will be different from other conferences you may have attended.

I used the Evoca browser mic to record this message and their player to bring it to you here.

Evoca is one of our event sponsors and they are offering conference attendees something special. (But I think I’ll make you wait until tomorrow to find out what it is. )

Take a listen.

Do you want to leave a voice comment in response to this message? Here is the link.

Do you want to keep track of all the recordings that are made about SOBCon? We’ve got an SOBCon Evoca Group so you can do just that. And it even has it’s own RSS feed! Check it out.

Rory Sullivan is a B.A.D. Blogger!

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Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Rory there?

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Off in London is a dad, named Rory. What a nice man he is. What a gentle, kind man he is. He done so many things in his past lives. I like that he’s working as a window washer. I think that all guys should know how to make glass shine and sparkle.

Rory wrote to me to say that he would be interested in being a bad blogger. Who would I be to say no? The most interesting people come knocking with that same request. So, the next thing you know we were talking on skype, as if we had been talking all of our lives.

Rory said that his blogging started as something personal. He would blog each day for a month before he went public. His goal was a website and blog on parenting. His love is Annabelth his daughter. Have you been there yet? He’s a natural. His blog and website are what he wanted.

We talked about what it’s like to be a parent in these times. Rory said he wanted to offer some isnights and direction, maybe a little, to other parents, from his experience. He doesn’t know what I see by watching. That the love of one dad named Rory is more than experience enough.

Rory Sullivan is one special guy who mashes up life with the mahers he serves his daughter at dinner. Somehow it all works to make a life that others want to emulate and learn from as they watch.

Off in London is a Window Washier who goes by the name of Rory and he is one heck of a father who blogs so that we might learn what makes him so special.

But only some of that translates into words.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

It is a world I didn’t know existed. —Rory Sullivan

Stop by Rory’s Blog, Hamelife and say hi!

Thanks, Rory, 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.

Thanks to Week 71 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

Sandy’s Great Graphic Find: block posters

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What Do You Want to Decorate?

Great Find: block posters

Permalink: http://www.blockposters.com

Target Audience: Photo Lovers

Content: This nifty tool is very easy to use.

  1. Upload your favorite photo
  2. Slice it any way you like
  3. Download the images
  4. Print
block posters

This is a fast, inexpensive way to decorate a room if you have a lot of wall space and you want to create a mood. What’s better than using your own photos? Check out some of the interesting samples.

Here’s three ideas I have for using posters:

  • Meetings
  • Parties
  • Reunions

Let me know how you decorate with block posters!

–Sandy, Purple Wren Communications

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The Road: A Simple 4-Part Psychological Survey of Attitudes

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You’re on a Road

When I was 26, I went out to dinner with a highly respected psychologist. Over a glass of wine, while waiting for our table, we discussed conversations people have, when they get to know each other.

He asked my permission to share a “psychological survey,” saying that he would explain what it meant after I gave four descriptions. Being of an age and in my “take any challenge phase,” I agreed. Here are the four “questions” my PhD friend asked.

  1. You’re walking on a road. It’s your road. Tell me about it.
  2. As you walk, you pass a body of water, describe it.
  3. Directly in your path is an empty bottle. What’s your response to it?
  4. You continue until you find yourself facing a wall that crosses your road perpendicularly. What do you do?

NOTE: If you want to answer for yourself, now is the time. My answers and the interpretation come next.

Roger, Ann, Wendy, Robert, Lisa, and Valeria, if we were out dinner I ask you to play along by describing your road to me. You’ve just been virtually tagged with, what has been, a real-life meme.

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SOB Business Cafe 03-02-07

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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

Logic + Emotion shares a thoughtful discussion.

Lorelle on WordPress offers a revue of reviews on WP plug-ins.

Design Your Writing Life continues the conversation about who decides we are writers.

Carpe Factum worries about our childishness.

SuccessCREEations has been studying the financials.

Spooky Action offers some thought-breaking statistics.

Related ala carte selections include

Business Blogwire has a new initiative to improve 100 blogs.

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