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It Was Summer Again and Links Were Leaking

September 6, 2006 by Liz

It Was Summer Again

Summer breeze made us feel fine, rolling through Open Comment Nights. The fish were jumping and the cotton was high. . . .

Starbucker, we knew we’d see you in September — but once again the evil/good link leak virus had Successful-blog leakng. The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes. But we were in a summertime frame of mind.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared.

A Lurker’s Report

Here’s what happened according to Marti Lawrence, comic and author of “Queen Klutz – The Misadventures of a Very Clumsy Woman.”

We didn’t start the choir
They were always lurking
Since Liz has been working
We didn’t start the choir
But she let them write it
Let them open mic it

BBQ, BBC, post today, BB King.
Portugal and summertime.
Labor Day and Techno ring.
Business talk is so sublime

Ben and Joe and Ricardo.
Where did triple w go?
Churchill, Stalin, beer is cold. Beach Boys songs and Toronto.
Who are you? Librarian. WhatÃ¢â¬â¢s your take? Sectarian.
Scorpia and Ricardo. Summer breeze, Wiki blows.

Doobie Brothers, Vacation. Tony, Norway, location?
Moon landing in ’69. Rick and Chris, cubits and stones.
Douglas, lawyers, coloring. Conservation, telephones.
Come on in, the talk is fine. Would you like a glass of wine?

Bloglines, law, embarrassment. Conservation and the Cubs.
Roy, Florida. Tivo, sand. Politics? Everyone shrugs.
Eureka,.beach, mosquito. Renee, dogs to the vet go.
Sky and Basil, olives, Cat. Katiebird, bed? Please say no!

Hungry, Tom, lunch, Seanrox too. ThereÃ¢â¬â¢s Yvonne, 300 woo!
ME has done it again. Marathon open mic night.
Marti couldn’t be here then. But she wrote this condensed spin.
Thanks from LA to Berlin. Liz is great, what a delight!

Thank you, Marti. This is wonderful! Read about Marti’s book and then buy it!

Thank’s Techz and Ram for your International visits too. You’ll get your turn when we do the Open Mic Weekend Marathon . . . 🙂

A weekend marathon?

Wouldn’t it be fun to find out?
I’d just have to think of a super topic!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Love at First Write: 5 +1 Steps to Your Authentic Writing Voice

September 5, 2006 by Liz

One Note and 42 Days Later

My husband and I got married 42 days after we met. He says he fell in love when he read a welcome note I left downstairs when he came to pick me up for a date. He still mentions it now, 23 years later.

We had a small wedding — 12 people in our living room.

My mother-law-in didn’t approve. She wanted us to wait. She also cried showing her husband what I wrote her on our wedding day. She told him I must love her son very much.

Both son and his mother heard what I said and knew I meant every word.

Using your authentic writing voice isn’t hard once you know how. In fact, it’s natural and works with all writing, not just lovey stuff. You only need to remember five things to do. Would you let me show you how?
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How to Undo Reverse-Wrong Zig-Zag Marketing in 5 Easy Steps

September 4, 2006 by Liz

I’ve Been Thinking about . . .

. . . about a conversation in college.

“Susie B., ” I said. “I envy you.”

“Oh, really? Why?”

“You’re the kind of person who knows exactly where you’re going. You move through the alphabet from A to B to C and so on. Me? I have to go from A all the way to Z and then I land on B just like you. Then I’m off again to Z before I can find my way back to C again.”

. . . about the interview question.

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”

The right answer is NOT “It depends.”

. . . about a recent comment from a friend.

“I’ve never seen you do anything in a straight line. You’ll always be such fun to watch.”

On good days, I think of it as creative, flexible, and original. On not so good ones, I think of it as chaotic, undisciplined, and unrefined. I’ve learned you go with what you got — manage to your strengths and shore up your weaknesses.

For me that means, stopping often to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

This time it’s serious. I’ve been doing Reverse-Wrong Zig-Zag Marketing.

No wonder folks don’t understand.

If you’re having a problem defining your brand, turn the page and read on.
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301 Links in a Story — Chapter 10 The Lost 18 Hours, The Prep, and the Final Round

September 3, 2006 by Liz

[For those of you just tuning in, this is based on the 301 Lists that Darren Rowse’s List Group Writing Project brought together. You’ll find Chapter 1 here –> A List Becomes 301 Links in Story Ã¢â¬â Chapter 1 ]

When We Left the . . . Studio

You might remember that at last look, our famed uncontrollable force and unpredictable influence, Lizzie and Amanda Congdon, leaving the studio of the International Blogging List Challenge! for parts unknown. The studio was in chaos after the Blogging 7th Heaven CanCan Dancers had roused the blogging audience into such a tizzy — blogging and applauding at the same time. (Which we have already established isn’t easy, if not completely impossible.)

Robert Scoble videoblogged the entire escapade.

The scoreboard read Arianna 600 Jeremy, Jeremy 200 Dave 200.

Rumor has it that the bloggers and the Blogging 7th Heaven People enjoyed a night of debauchery at 10 Rue Dante — an irony that I’d love to write about, but for once not a single blogger blogged the following 18 hours. They claimed a complete system failure — power, DS, and wireless — all out. Some spoke of eerie MySql errors written on the bathroom walls.

That lost 18 hours has gone down in blogging history as Blog Silence, Dead Feeds, and Dante’s New Level. Even Scoble’s video crew would only say, “We’re glad that MaryAm took you back to the hotel.”

Meanwhile Back at the Hotel . . .

The sun rose on a new day and gave hope to our contestants, the nationally syndicated columnist, author of ten books, international speaker and blogger, Arianna Huffington; the self-described serial entreprenuer, CEO and founder of Blog index Technorati, nationally known programmer, blogger, and blog sociologist, and friend of Janice Myint, David L. Sifry; and author, co-founder and president of b5 media, international blogger, traveler, speaker, and sometimes spy Jeremy, Jeremy Wright.

All three contestants were eating a quiet breakfast in the hotel dining room as they prepared for the show. Each was hoping not to embarrass his or her family, nation, planet, or galaxy — thereby causing an international incident of some sort. One was reading Ten Ways to Build Moats to Hold Back the Competition. Another was studying 5 Ways MyMoneyBlog Can Make You $100. The third trying to find the horoscope in the National Enquirer.

Our uncontrollable force and unpredictable influence were upstairs having their usual room service — a pizza with fresh tomato, a dozen chocolate-covered strawberries, and two bottles of Perrier-Jouet. This time they sat on the balcony discussing what to wear.

“I’ve done the black and white,” said Lizzie. “I think I might live dangerously and do deep, deep purple with a hint of pale pink.”

“That’s it,” said Amanda, laughing. “Blow that Alice-in-Wonderland image! Go for Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix. I’m wearing popurls Pearls from head to toe.”

Finally the Show Was Back On

That one day seemed to take forever. Each group had reasons why it took so long, but finally the lights, the cameras, the music, the announcements had happened and again the International Blogging List Challenge! was on.

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Introducing TechzOnline

September 2, 2006 by Liz

SOB Hall of Famer: TechzOnline

TechzOnline started out as just a personal space to put down a few thoughts and a central place to let people know more about me. It slowly became a very comfortable medium via the exellent CMS, WP, to put down my thoughts and interact with a wide spectrum of people, in terms of culture & thoughts. I’m a technology fan, and as such my Friday Link Day usually has a good bunch of tech links, not to mention I keep categories devoted solely to tech. I keep my blog ad-free so users need not worry about pop-ups and ugly boxes with ads in them.

Notes from Liz: In the olden days when I was a kid, TV had variety shows. Today you meet a tech blog with variety posts. Techzonline from Bahrain is that blog. It’s not only more informative and it’s way more entertaining than those old variety shows were. You just never know what the next post will bring you. The Microsoft Dead for the Live Challenged Review was one of my favorites. The blogger behind this tech blog is clever and worth paying attention to. Each post is packed with refreshing new slants, and facts and ideas that make fun tuning into this blog — like it used to be fun to tune into TV in the olden days.

You’ve probably seen Techz commenting on Sucessful Blog. He’s planning to visit the blogs in the Hall of Fame. He’s one Successful and Outstanding Blogger.

Thanks, Techz, for letting me introduce you to the readers of Successful Blog.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find for the Mind: A New Measure of Intelligence?

August 31, 2006 by Liz

As I Charge My Brain

Business schools are all looking for ways to add innovations and right-brain thinking to their curriculums. Tufts University is looking for a new way to gauge intelligence.

Great Find: Toward a New Measure of Intelligence

Permalink: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2006/id20060803_891819.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_the+creative+corporation

Audience/Topic: Anyone with an interest with innovation trends in business

Content: Robert Sternberg at Tufts University is looking for a new way to measure intelligence. In this BusinessWeekonline article by Romy Drucker, we find out the details of just what that means. Here’s a quick look.

BETTER PREDICTOR. Sternberg defines intelligence as mental activity devoted to “purposive adaptation to, selection, and shaping of real-world environments relevant to one’s life.” It is no wonder, then, that he believes the university should think about education “in terms of skills that matter.”

His research indicates that when applicants’ creative and practical intelligence are quantified and considered together, there is a substantial increase in the admissions committee’s ability to predict academic success in the first year of college.

He also thinks that the modifications in the Tufts rating system will have the effect of admitting more students who reflect the institution’s values of civic engagement. Given the research correlating test scores with socioeconomic status, the reforms should also help admit a more diverse class

To check out the whole article click the title shot below.

I’m off today working with clients on creativity and innovation. We’ll see whether that helps my own intelligence factor!

–ME “Liz” Strauss