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SOB Business Cafe 04-14-2006

April 14, 2006 by Liz

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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Brian at Copyblogger catches the New York Times being clever with their headlines. Great analysis. Well-worth reading.

Copyblogger Linkbaiting New York Times Style

God over at the godblog lets us know she enters contests. The latest that she’s signed up for is Valleywag’s coin a Valleyspeak word contest. Win free music. Proof that god likes music. Like the new template, god–you must have a thing for change: seasons, day and night, people getting older . . .

GoodGod Blog Valleywag Contest

If only Rocky could package this post and give it as a presentation to some CEOs I know. They need to learn that people need time and resources to do things right the first time. Lot’s of CEO’s could use a Hillbilly PhD. to get their priorities straight.

Hillbilly PhD Doing it right the first time

The essence of great writing and editing is knowing how to remove all of the words that you don’t need. This post from Jamdo Marketing does a great job of explaining that. (Apologies for that errant “b” earlier.” It’s Jamdo.” Get rid of the letters you don’t need too.)

Jamdo Stripping Excess Words from Your Blog

Freshblog comes through again with some creative hacking for Blogger. Now you can make your posts expand and contract. Congratulations on the new design Freshblog–like your name it’s FRESH . . . I’m looking for my link in the blogroll, I think it fell off by mistake. . . . hope this doesn’t mean that we’re breaking up.

Fresblog Post hackery for blogger

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Marianne Richmond’s article on paying attention had such a strong impact on me last week. I was led to rethink some things in the quality of my own life. This one by Liz, from my writing blog.

Letting me be The Essence of Being Alive

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

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SOB Business Cafe 04-07-2006

April 7, 2006 by Liz

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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Gary Miller at Blogoplex sends a message to David Sifry and a man named Chris Coffman to find out Gary and Chris seem to claim the same blog, though they’ve never met.

Blogoplex What's Technorati Up To? Screenshot

Noel Guinane takes a hard look at the use and uselessness of social network analysis to business.

Blood and Treasure Social Network Article Screenshot Link

Javier Cabrera (who has not sent me a comment hug for a very long time–he must be at dinner) shows off his CSS esssentials, which features blogs of high-end design from around the web.

Clear Your Mind CSS Essentials Screenshot Link

Improbulus explains how the Nextsplogs scam works. If you’ve not heard about this, check it out. This clever new trick uses redirection code to game the Google Next Blog viewing system. Apparently spammers never learned that they’re not supposed to cut in line.

Consuming Experience Next Blog queue traffic theft screenshot link

David Starling offers a serious analysis of Google’s current funding and what it means to Google and to us.

The Business of America Google Puts Hair on Its War Chest Article Link

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Chartreuse BETA unravels the story of a webcam “grassroots music discovery” who now looks to be a plant by the recording industry. Once again, he saw something wasn’t right there when her popularity first became a big deal.

Chartreuse BETA Is Sandi Thom a Fraud? Screenshot Link

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: Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Great Finds, LinkedIn, small business

SOB Business Cafe 03-31-06

March 31, 2006 by Liz

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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Marianne pulls together some of the freshest information on our ability to focus our attention. Find some surprising conclusions, such as that multi-tasking lowers productiving. This was the best read of the week for me.

Resonance Partnership Attention Giving It and Getting It

Starting with the Cluetrain Manifest, which if you haven’t read, you must, Roar gives a transparent picture of the employee experience of working in a Web 2.0 world.

Roarweb Employee Experience in web 2.0 world

Political Calculations provides an in-depth analysis of jobs in which the trend is growing for college degrees to be a requirement.

Political Calculations Trends Where Degress Are in Demand

Jason at Mental Tech is sharing a clock that makes the people fountain at Millenium Park in Chicago look like child’s play.

Mental Tech humanclock

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No BS Finance has some basic tips on compounding our net worth. For those of us just getting involved in planning our financial futures, spend some time poking around here.

No BS Finnance Compounding Net Worth

Chris Garrett offers advice on how to write a narrative story as a blog post.

Performancing Tell a Good Story

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

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SOB Business Cafe 03-24-2006

March 24, 2006 by Liz

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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Liew has found a new way to check your blog’s influence in the Blogosphere.

Blog Influence Article at Liewcf

Brian actually has two review on Microsoft Office 2007. After you read this article, you might want to click through to his home page, to catch the preview article.

Microsoft Office 2007 article by Brian Shih

Joel entertains with some Mad Science.

HART reviews IE7 Beta 2.

IE7 Beta Hart Review Article

Sumeet offers some fine points on interview success.

Sumett's Article on Interview Success

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Arloo treats us this lovely dessert. He has the details.

$13,000 Cool Car Article by Arloo

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, Great Finds, LinkedIn, small business

SOB Business Cafe 03-17-2006

March 17, 2006 by Liz

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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Bloggers Blog takes on folksonomy and unravels the confusing world of tags.

The Confusing World of Tags

Shirley at Solo Business Marketing reminds us that if the Big Guys can market their loss leaders, solo business owners can too.

Marketing with Loss Leaders

Ed, the Technology Evangelist, talks about how to combat blog comment spam. I’m sure he won’t mind if you also read Sumeet Jain’s article the article on nofollow to consider whether this option works for you.

How to Combat Blog Comment Spam

Mike at Simplenomics demonstrates true outside of the box thinking by providing several objectives for sales contests that go beyond the usual incentive goal reasons.

Sales Contests--Other Objectives

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Michael has tips for adding a few free links to your blog.

Free Link Tips

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and beverages–Guinness, or maybe a simple round of pints?–will be right over. Stay as long as you like.

No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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SOB Business Cafe 03-10-2006

March 10, 2006 by Liz

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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Improbulus tackles the problems at Technorati by breaking down a sizeable post and testing each part of it to see which parts get indexed and which don’t–finding out exactly which bits of formatting seem to trip up the Technorati spiders. Looks like I’m going to have to write another poem to this fine researcher soon.

Technorati Tags Test Article Screenshot

Brian at copyblogger shows the the ugly, the bad, and the good of getting attention for your business through marketing strategies. This one piece explores way more than just two.

Two More Attention Strategies

Mark Wade discusses the launch of BlogEverywhere, the new blogging interface from the maker of hotmail, that works from a toolbar. As they say, “This is not your father’s blog platform.”

Blog Everywhere Article

Marianne takes on a conversation with Jack Trout’s article at Forbes about Word of Mouth Marketing. Score one more for bloggers.

What's New about Word of Mouth?

The ala carte dessert selections is

Scot Herrick’s blog is actually two blogs in one–a writing blog and a business blog. Visit it to see how beautiful design and and great content can be friends in seamless companionship as fraternal twins.

Scot Herrick Blog

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

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SOB Business Cafe 03-03-2006

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Great Finds, LinkedIn, small business

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