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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.

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 . . .

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.

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.)

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.

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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.

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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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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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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.

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.

Joel entertains with some Mad Science.

HART reviews IE7 Beta 2.

Sumeet offers some fine points on interview success.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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.”

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

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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.

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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