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Alex Shalman and Steve Roesler Are B.A.D. Bloggers!

July 8, 2007 by Liz

Hello, Hello! I’d Like You to Meet . . .

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It’s a fine way to spend a Sunday visiting some B. A. D. Bloggers I know. Without hesitation, these are folks who are worth getting to know. I can say that because I did.

Have you met Steve Roesler?

Steve Roesler knows Ann Michael and Valeria Maltoni. It took a while to find out. He called me. I called him. Then called me, and I him again. But in the end I know he knows them because we finally made a voice connect, and he outright told me. We talked about who knew who and how we knew each other. We even talked about how much we like them, and about how we met.

Then we moved on to other topics.

Steve and I had a delightful discussion about blogging and conversation. We wound through ways to invite readers to participate in what we have to say when we write — how to leave more room for them. It’s always fun to consider with an intelligent blogger how we present ideas on our blogs and the people who come to read them.

Steve works with client companies All Places World. The folks he works with become stronger communicators and better team builders. Steve handles All Things Workplace — he specializes in communication training and development and works on improving systems, relationships, and large-scale change. He has deep interest in the global nature of business and business relationships.

Steve’s a people person. It comes through when you talk to him.

Steve likes his family too. He’s worked all over the world, but he’s partial to the woods near Philly where his family is.

. . . And Ann and Valeria are nearby for a blogger meetup whenever he needs one.

Oh and, do you know Alex Shalman?

Alex Shalman says, “. . . a life stems from the realization that the past is gone and the future hasn’t happened yet, the only moment which we possess is the one in which we live.”

Alex is a student, son of a dentist. He’s going to be one himself. He IMs me from the library. Well, that’s where he always says he is. So that must be. Except when I was younger than Alex, I used to put 250 miles on the car going to the . . . um, er . . . library. . . . Of course, he’s past that stage. He’s working gainfully on a career.

Alex likes learning. He reads books on personal development and participates in a mastermind group. He seeks out mentors where he can find them. He’s a membor of the attendees at SOBCon 07.

Alex’s personal goal to be a dentist will make him the fifth generation in his family to choose that profession. His plan is to be an entrepreneur by developing a practice that will be franchised, provide mentoring, dental education, and lead to a career as a speaker and teacher.

Alex’s blog is a result of his exploration into personal development and his continuing interest in it. He has an undergraduate degree and a passion for psychology. He likes restating it in an understandable form.

Yet the coolest thing about Alex is his laugh when he’s relaxed and being himself.

Alex and Steve, you are B.A.D. Bloggers!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: Alex-Shalman, B.A.D. Blogger, bc, blogger-a-day, Steve-Roesler

Hart Singer and Anita Bruzzese Are B.A.D. Bloggers!

June 30, 2007 by Liz

Hello, Hello! I’d Like You to Meet . . .

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It’s a fine way to spend a Saturday visiting some B. A. D. Bloggers I know. Without hesitation, these are folks who are worth getting to know. I can say that because I did.

Have you met HART Singer yet?

HART’s mind works in mysterious ways. HART’s been around Successful-Blog longer than I have. He’s the man who said the now famous quote, Half the show is in the comments . . . to Paul Scrivens when Successful Blog had no comment feed. That was over 39,000 comments ago in November of 2005.

HART’s an entertaining storyteller and he’s got some entertaining stories to tell. Believe that. Few are about his work serving businesses as a finance man. HART doesn’t show off. His stories are about times when real-life things happened — the wheel flew off the car and went through the window of the biker bar. . . . or this one about why he was fired.

HARTs also Canadian citizen, who let me in on the secret that all Canadians know everyone, everywhere in the world, and that he is related personally to almost half of them.

When you see HART let him know that you’ve seen the bar stool with his name at Successful-Blog.

Everyone: HART!

Oh and, do you know Anita Bruzzese?

Anita is from Missouri, and she has 45 Things to show you about the things that you do that drive your boss crazy.

You might wonder how a writer living in the “Show Me” state would know anything about what your boss thinks or what you do. I sort of wondered too — until I found out that she’s spent the last decade writing about the workplace for Gannett News Service and USAToday.com, winning awards and such. They say her readership is over 8 million daily. ahem.

Anita is plain fun to talk to. We covered the topics in her book, a few places we’d been, and some things we’d seen, The best part hands down is that she’s a delightful and charming conversationalist, who on that day was as sincerely interested in another person’s new book as much as she was in her own. No kidding.

By the way, if you meet her, her last name is pronounced “Brew-ZEES.”

HART and Anita, you are B.A.D. Bloggers!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: Anita-Bruzzese, B.A.D. Blogger, bc, blogger-a-day, Hartley-Singer

B.A.D. Bloggers Are Incredible . . . Celebrate!!!

June 30, 2007 by Liz

Celebrating the People Behind the Blogs

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A close friend in Chicago says my life sped up markedly the day I announced the B.A.D. Blogger program in November of 2006. Every day since then, I’ve had a conversation, person-to-person, with a blogger — at least one — four already today.

I used to write daily recaps of our conversations. Then well, I couldn’t keep up with the writing task, especially when work for SOBCon07 started happening. Yet I couldn’t give up starting new blogging relationships. Plenty of folks have found that a danger of an email request to my inbox is that they end up hearing my voice on their telephone or VoiP.

The bloggers I meet are too cool to keep them to myself, and you’re too cool not to know them. This time I’m expanding B.A.D. Blogger to include incredible folks I got to know

  • by exchanging thoughts in the comment box for more than a year.
  • when we met in person at SOBCon07, at a meetup, or in their town or mine.
  • from the person-to-person conversations every day that are the heart of the B.A.D Blogger program.

After all what’s a blog without the person who writes it? Celebrating bloggers is what the B.A.D. Blogger program was always about.

What fun to celebrate B.A.D. Bloggers again! Bloggers are incredible, interesting, unique, clever, cool, and generous people.

Let me introduce you.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: B.A.D. Blogger, B.A.D.-Bloggers-Are-Back, bc, blogger-a-day

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