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SOB Business Cafe 03-09-07

March 9, 2007 by Liz Leave a Comment

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

Blogoprenuer offers a lesson taken out of context.

Content is king, context is the palace


Kent Blumberg has a series for us on the elements of greatness.

The Elements of Great Managing: 1 – Job Clarity


Life Coaches offers a manifesto for every parent, teacher, manager, friend, mentor, brother, sister, person who knows another person.

The Life Coach Manifesto v1.1


Talking Story tells about customers and work ethic.

Waiting Tables and Work Ethic


Creative Think celebrates 100 posts with an interview.

What Makes David Armano Tick?


You Already Know This Stuff asks if we’re ready to take grown-up steps.

How FAR would you GO to Play Big?


Related ala carte selections include

Ask Dr. Kirk has a remedy for that bad feeling.

How To Manage That Feeling Of Being Overwhelmed


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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: Ask-Dr.-Kirk, bc, Blogopreneur, Creative-Think, Kent-Blumberg, Life-Coaches, Talking-Story, You-Already-Know-This-Stuff

SOB Business Cafe 02-02-07

February 2, 2007 by Liz 12 Comments

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

Creative Think suggests we try the secret fortune tellers have been using for years.

Use A Random Idea As An Oracle


Eat 4 Today has a series on health care for individuals.

Cover Everyone: California Nurses support Single-Payer


Make It Great! shoots us five things we can learn too.

Rapid Fire Learning: 5 Things I learned in January


The Remote Control CEO shows us how integrity figures
in a picture of self-deception.

The Practice of Integrity and Self-Deception


Manage To Change makes a choice to feature an interview
with the CEO of Reed Business Information

Where are all my choices?


Beth’s Blog asks a question that we’ve all started wondering.

Should we put our social media tools away and have a conversation?


Related ala carte selections include

ipop-in takes us into a presentation of theater of the mind
and quantum physics to help us create our own reality.

Quantum quirkiness


Purple Wren uses a YouTube Classic to remind us of the
value of video.

YouTube: OK Go – Here It Goes Again


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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Beths-Blog, Creative-Think, Eat-4-Today, ipop-in, Make-It-Great, Purple-Wren, The-Remote-Control-CEO

SOB Business Cafe 01-12-07

January 12, 2007 by Liz 14 Comments

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

Success from the Nest has a question that could impact our bottom line.

Do You Know Where Your Nuts Are?

Deep Jive Interests has offers Yahoo! a plan to get their ROI from MyBlogLog.

Here’s How Yahoo! Could Capitalize on MyBlogLog

Solo Business Marketing reminds us of one thing we should be certain to find out.

Does Your Client Have the Authority to Pay?

Workboxers explains how to name a real world business opening online.

Selecting a Solid Business Domain Name

Drew’s Marketing Minute has an important ultimatum.

Love me or let me go

Logic + Emotion gives us a tour of what will soon be the newest and fastest growing habitat of the business world.

The iPhone Ecosystem

Technosailor details a series on the business of podcasting.

Podcasting Essentials: Strength in Numbers

Whimspiration has gathered a comprehensive list of non-GMO, natural, heirloom, organic, and CNG seed vendors for gardeners looking to buy products on the Internet

Winter’s Grasp

Related ala carte selections include

Scribbit reminds us that not all things should be business.

Creative Family Activities: Part One

Creative Think explains the benefit of resting to change and creativity.

Pause for a Bit

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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Creative-Think, Deep-Jive-Interests, Drews-Marketing-Minute, logic-+-emotion, Scribbit, Solo-Business-Marketing, Success-from-the-Nest, Technosailor, Whimspiration, Workboxers

SOB Business Cafe 12-08-06

December 8, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

The Publishing Spot offers a way to find balance.

I dont think Id be sane if

Success Begins Today finds a way to include people in optimum performance.

Optitasking at Work

Blogopreneur asks questions worth considering.

Who Do You Define As Authority Today?

CypherHacks explains how to do tricks with Adsense.

Display adsense in certain posts in WordPress

Carpe factum suggests you don’t take the bipolar express.

The Bi-Polar Express

Creative Think offers ideas on how to loosen up.

Loosen Up

Related ala carte selections include

Orbit Now is offering a great service.

Why I want to be your mentor

Converstations asks Steve Farber to explain what OS!M means.

Without OSM You Got Nuthin

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

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Blogopreneur, Carpe-Factum, Converstations, Creative-Think, CypherHacks, Orbit-Now, Steve-Farber, success-Begins-today, The-Publishing-Spot

Roger von Oech Is a B.A.D. Blogger!

December 7, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Roger there?

Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of spending a great time on the phone with Roger von Oech. We took the time machine back to the days when he wrote his first books. I got to think about the fun I had giving people A Whack on the Side of the Head. It was fun as a publisher to ask him about his experiences while bringing that incredibly popular book and its partner, A Kick in the Pants, to market while magazines — Fortune and Business Week — and television responded with noise and pleasure that corporations were finally trying to do something creative.

Roger explained that the real change came when he switched from the book to the Creative Whack Pack, a 64-card deck that is a creativity tool. He said folks were wilingl to share copies of the books, but they wanted to keep their Whack Packs. I can understand that. I like to keep my favorite toys too.

Actually though our conversation didn’t start with Roger’s stuff, before I’d barely said hello Roger was asking questions. With his creativity he has a healthy dose of what he called beginner’s mind. I would have to call it insatiable curiosity. The man likes to know how things work and why they work as they do. That makes a conversation with him lively and constantly filled with questions and ideas. Bet you can see why I was having the time of my life listening and talking about anything and everything that happened to interest us at the moment.

Some of the topics included the fact that Roger had breakfast with Guy Kawasaki and that they had been to the same school together and only met recently. Roger’s been reading blogs for over three years, but only got into writing his own blog in the last few months. We discussed how moving from link to forms people relationships not just connections of web relevancy. He said that’s how he met almost every Internet friend, because one let to another and then to the next. We talked about blogs we like, but how blogs can’t replace the depth of reading a book.

We found we’re of like mind when it comes to discovery. Today I was wishing I had a dime for every time that word was used during our conversation. We talked about the ways that it’s valuable to cross purpose content to make it fit each audience perfectly, because they don’t have time to find it or make it work for them. I think we laughed a lot and bet we were picturing many of the same things.

You can’t help but imagine possibilities when you talk to Roger von Oech.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

Some of my blog posts have been picked up by other blogs and they got me in touch with people I’ve not been in touch with for years. One is a man from India I met while speaking there in 1993, it looks like I’ll be going back again now.–Roger von Oech

Stop by Roger’s Blog, Creative Think, and say hi!

Thanks, Roger, 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.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: B.A.D. Blogger, bc, Blogger-a-day-call, Creative-Think, Roger-von-Oech

SOB Business Cafe 11-10-06

November 10, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Freshblog has been investigating a social search engine.

Social Searching with URL[dot]com

Creative Think wants to know what your rules of thumb are.

Tom Hirshfield's Rules of Thumb

Sensational Color draws attention to the ligihting.

The Temperature of Light

ePublishingDaily is wondering whether 10,000 views of Michael Connelly’s book is a sign of a new opportunity

Can you use YouTube to marke you info product?

OnebyOne Media is offering a special for your reading pleasure.

A Side of RSS with Your Email?

Carpe Factum asks whether we’re competing when we should be pitching in.

Racing Against Phantoms

Related ala carte selections include

We still have a chance to be part of the Make It Great! contest.

Contest Extended to November 10

Newton doesn’t know that Shards of Consciousness has the laws of relativity reapplied in a new and interesting way.

The Laws of Belief

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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Carpe-Factum.-Make-It-Great!, Creative-Think, ePublishingdaily, Freshblog, OnebyOne-Media, Sensational-Color, Shards-of-Consciousness

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