How many of your readers own their own servers?
Where will your business be if the highway decides to bypass you?
It happened when the interstates were built.
If they repeal Net Neutrality, our blogs will be small towns way off the main interstate.
We’ll be back to one or two very expensive providers who offer us services we don’t need that do things we don’t like to get to product we don’t want.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
A short transition, like the one I wrote about this morning, is not only a great way to prepare for writing, it’s a great way to unwind at the end of the day.
So with that in mind, I saved this sample transition-retreat for now. Put some kick back music in your headphones and enjoy this photo (or choose one of your own). If you want a written reflection, click the image and you can use the one I wrote for it.
Heart on the Water
Taking care of you is also a great way to take care of those around you.
Brand you and me.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Start a day in a meeting; then it’s off to start writing. Some people can immediately be working. That won’t be me that you’re seeing. I’m not one of those people. I’m no good at transitions.
Tim Allen best expressed this feeling. He said smething like,
I hate getting into the shower, and I hate getting out.
That’s me.
The problem is I leave a meeting, chirping like a box of birds. It’s a personal idiosyncrasy–once my extrovert gets talking and interacting, I have trouble finding my thinking and writing introvert. As with most things me, the only solution I’ve found — giving my brain what it needs — I’m good at that. [Read more…]
The first step in getting to know anyone is conversation. Sometimes though, conversation doesn’t come so naturally. It’s no fun to find yourself in a situation with nothing to say for whatever reason. I keep myself armed with a question or two that I can pull out on those occasions.
A great “getting-to-know-someone” question has three critical traits.
The question I use most often when I want to spark conversation is this one.
So, what do you do when you’re not doing this?
I’ve had fabulous conversations with CEOs, cab drivers, hair dressers, and once with another person stuck in a elevator. I’ve always parted those conversations feeling like I’ve made a friend.
Got any conversation starters that you use?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Brian Clark at Copyblogger defines Net Neutrality in way that we can all understand it.
All of your current Internet marketing plans depend on Net Neutrality. And likely a lot that you do online outside the scope of business depends on it too. Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. —The Four Horsemen of the Internet Apocalypse
Why is Brian talking about Net Neutrality?
Because Doc Searls is . . . and so is Jeff Pulver . . . and so am I — on all three of my blogs. [Read more…]
HAS POWER. I found that out last night. It was exciting. Here’s what happened.
In yesterday’s article, Job [and Client] Hunting ala Liz, I added three bits of advice I had learned about negotiating meetings. This was one.
The first one to name a number loses. To me thatââ¬â¢s self-explanatory. If I say a number, theyââ¬â¢re not going to go higher. If they ask, I usually answer with . . . what the work is worth, letââ¬â¢s talk a little more about whatââ¬â¢s involved and what you usually pay for this kind of work.
I found out in less than 2 hours I was wrong. WAY COOL. [Read more…]