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4:00 – Easton Ellsworth on Visionary Blogging Improvements

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The theme of SOBCon09 is the ROI of Relationships. Relationships with customers, employees, colleagues, coworkers, builders, contractors, developers, and CUSTOMERS — in the form of readers, buyers, clients, and others — are the success of any business.

How do we form the best relationships; bring our best to them; build environments that nurture them; and measure our success?

Join the Comment Box Conference. Ask questions. Discuss answers. Meet people in the comment box. Find out.

Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth New Media Consultant is the founder of Visionary Blogging, which advises entrepreneurs and businesses on how to use blogs and social media tools with a better sense of strategy in order to generate superior results. He especially loves using the social Web to change the offline world, which he tried to do as assistant event coordinator for Blog Action Day 2008.

Easton is bringing information on

Visionary Blogging Improvements

How to Improve Your Blogger Attributes, Blogging Skills and Your Blog Itself

  1. Helping others think about and use blogs and social media tools with a strong sense of vision and purpose
  2. Writing blog content that generates results that help your business’s bottom line
  3. Creating an integrated blog/social media strategy
  4. Generating buzz for an online event using blogs and social media
  5. Monitoring the blogosphere and social media websites for maximum awareness of a subject.

Easton’s experience ranges from personal blogs to a huge network. He’s helped us all in some way.

Easton currently writes for The Blog Herald and serves as a promoter and community leader for BlogCatalog and Bloggers Unite. Easton lives near Denver, Colorado with his wife and three children.Follow @easton at Twitter.

Easton's Something Successful and Outstanding

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Happy Successful-Blog Birthday!

from Easton Ellsworth

Hmm, something successful and outstanding that happened in my life. . . .

I was in the high school choir all four years. I always desperately wanted to sing a solo but never had the guts to audition. Little by little, I beat back the self-consciousness and fear that kept trying to hold me back. Near the end of my senior year, I finally got those guts and tried out in front of my peers for a big solo in the last show. I’ll never forget the rustling sound of a hundred students’ arms being raised to vote for me. I got the solo. What that successful and outstanding moment taught me was that super hard work, persistently following a dream and giving life your best effort can lead to unspeakably sublime experiences and memories. Success is reared in struggle.

–Easton Ellsworth, Business Blogwire

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Thank you, Easton. You have always been that good.
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birthday balloon The party is Oct. 24th! Come for the surprises! Bring a link to your success!!!

Interview 16.2 Easton Ellsworth — the Blogger

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Interview and Commentary

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Yesterday, we found out that Easton is a SuperHero! He won our hearts with stories of his work at home schedule. He also shared some great comments with us and told the story of the PEZ dispenser — in the comments following the interview. Today we find out what kind of blogger Eastonis and what keeps him blogging.

How has blogging changed who you are as a person? What do you hope you will still learn from it? What so far is your greatest blogging success?

Blogging has made me more courageous and less selfish – not because of the technology, but because of the activities and relationships I’ve experienced along the way. I still hope to figure out how to decide at any given moment, what’s the most important thing to say and who to say it to, and in what way. Now there’s a lifelong pursuit! I think my greatest blogging success so far has been using blogs to benefit people in spite of opportunities to do the opposite.

What was the biggest surprise about blogging? What is the part you most enjoy? What is the part you could live without?

How personal it is. That’s what I love most about blogging, by far. I could live without the technological limitations we still have to deal with – the latency, the bugginess, the complexity under the hood.

What’s the best advice you ever got from a blogger about anything? What advice would you like to pass on?

I’ve gotten one supreme piece of advice from several bloggers, and there are several ways of saying it: Don’t give up. Be persistent. Keep at it. Stick with it. I might boil that down to one word: persevere. Change your strategy as needed, but always strive for a higher level of excellence. There’s never a lack of opportunities, only a lack of vision. So get out there, believe in yourself and your power to change the world, and use the opportunities that come to you and create them where you can’t find any. You can do it. So do it. Do it!

Easton, you are an inspiration and a friend. I feel lucky to have met you. Thank you for this interview. Thank you for being a blogger.

Meet Easton at SOBCon 07 on May 11&12 — Why SOBCon not that Other One. Register now

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Interview 16.1 Comments from Easton Ellsworth!

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Interview and Commentary

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If you read comments, you know that a great comment is hard to find. If you write them, you know why.

On some of the most readable blogs, the most readable comments are in the voice under the name of Easton Ellsworth. Easton writes a great blog post — no kidding — but he also writes the most interesting comments you might find in a comment box. People I know actually look forward to coments Easton leaves on Blogtipping Day. It’s because he’s authentic and a great guy. Here’s few comments I picked up . . . Easton is cheerful and funny. He’s also a wise man.

A HUGE key to blogging success – and also to writing success and life success – is being able to read and drink in knowledge effectively. And along with that, developing a keen sense of what constitutes good or bad writing.

Good blogs don’t write themselves – people with engaging intellects produce them. So it will be with SOBCon. I hope everyone who reads this drops what they’re doing and registers!

Off the top of my head, I’d say I work hard to connect professionals with other on the Web. That’s just one aspect of my life though … hmmm, need some time to mull it over!

Sometimes we write forward – across the table to our readers – and sometimes we write sideways – around the table to our content producing cohorts. It’s important to learn how to do both to the satisfaction of both parties.

So I wanted to introduce you to the Easton that I know. He’s a guy that’s one in a million and well worth getting to know. So let me introduce you to the first of a two-part interview.

Easton, You are more than a blogger. You’re involved behind the scenes at KnowMoreMedia, but even more you really are the face of the company. Is there anything you’d like people to know about who you are and what you do?

I want others to know that I pour my heart and soul into my job – not just my blog posts, but also my efforts to improve and promote Know More Media as a source of relevant business news and information. I spend most of my workday teaching and motivating our bloggers and reaching out to connect with others who might benefit from working with us. And that I am proud to be a work-at-home parent who knows how it feels to juggle diaper-changing and banner ads, Teletubbies and teleconferencing, grocery shopping and blog brainstorming, etc.

What were you like when you first started blogging? What was your blogging goal then? What is it now? Where would you like to be in three years if there were no obstacles?

When I started blogging in August 2005, I knew almost nothing about blogs. I stumbled across my blogging job via a part-time copywriting job that helped pay my young family’s bills while I was a full-time college student. At first, my biggest blogging goal was just to tell all the people I could about Know More Media. As I met other bloggers and made friends, helping others excel (blogging or otherwise) became my number one goal. I’ve found this to be the most rewarding and uplifting course to pursue, and I’m grateful to have met so many excellent people who feel likewise. Three years from now I would love to be with Know More Media or maybe even start my own business on the Web.

More Comments from Easton.

Ya done good thar, Liz. Ya done good. . . . post coming soon – great job making people blush, Liz!

Thanks, Easton. You look good in that blush red color. . . . Can I have a Pez?

Meet Easton at SOBCon 07 on May 11&12 — Why SOBCon not that Other One. Register now

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Easton Ellsworth Exaggerates Excellently and Talks Talent Terrifically

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Thank you, Easton, for Making Us Pez Dispensers!

Yesterday, the world famous blogger, Mr. Easton Ellsworth of Know More Media’s Business Blogwire made an incredible announncement.

Well, the announcement itself was credible. He does make announcements, so that action is credible enough. It’s just that this announcement was about something incredible. Well the something isn’t incredible — it’s something that’s called incredible. Um, maybe I should let Easton tell you himself.

. . . “Incredible Hall of Acclaim” icon . . . (Long live the PEZ dispenser!) This is a new program where I will highlight incredible bloggers who spread pro blogging tips, business blogging news and/or corporate blogging wisdom galore.

While only blogs of incredibly high quality can receive this honor, you’re potentially eligible if you blog about corporate blogging or professional blogging in any way.
Every Monday I plan to bestow my Incredible badge upon one or more deserving bloggers. If you receive the badge, you may place it on your blog and may also choose to have your content appear in my new Hall of Acclaim aggregate blog along with that of other Incredible bloggers. Over time I hope to build up an Incredible list!

There is no limit to the number of potential Incredible bloggers in my Hall of Acclaim, but I plan to keep it pretty exclusive. –Easton Ellsworth

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Easton Ellsworth . . .

talks talent terrifically, by saying Mike Sansone is incredible

and exaggerates excellently by doing the same for me.

Thank you, Easton. The likenesses are remarkable.

It’s WAY COOL to be a Hall of Famer!

It’s even COOLER to be here with Mike Sansone!

I’ve always wanted to be a PEZ dispenser. . . .

How did he know that?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Ode to Easton the Blogtipping Man (Part 4)

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Part 4 of 4

Easton was dressed in a nice clothes — not college-kid rags,
But his clothes were a cloud of Technorati tags.
His backpack was full of compliments for handing out freely,
He was a blogger, on a mad posting spree.

His words-how they tickled! His remarks, oh, how insightful!
He could devise a surprise that was truly delightful!
Blogtipping was a phenomena, an artist’s creation!
Throughout the blogdom, blogtipping was now an occasion.

Yet Easton, the Blogtipping Man, didn’t know,
That bloggtipping day, we wait for him to show.
We know he’ll come to leave that one comment,
To say that he saw it. We wait to see what he says!

He slides into the comment box leaving a word,
And next thing you know, only laughter is heard!
Easton says: “Good job. I guess, it’s all in the wrist,”
And you wonder, Where does that guy get lines like this?

Then he springs to his blog, to his fans gives that smile,
And he’s gone before you can say, “Come back in awhile.”
But I saw him post once in very tiny, fine print,
“I love blogs. I love blogging. I love bloggers!
(and I just made you squint)”

–ME “Liz” Strauss

See Parts 1, 2, and 3 at:
Part 1 at Manage To Change
Part 2 at Converstations
Part 3 at Make It Great!