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The Ageless Project: Generations of Bloggers Sharing Thoughts from All Over the World

November 5, 2007 by Liz

A 20-Something and a Boomer

When my dear friend, Keith Dsouza offered to write a guest post profiling a couple of young bloggers, I’m sure he didn’t know what he was about to get himself involved in. Within seconds I started having ideas, and Keith didn’t run fast enough. We were in a discussion about the 108-year-old blogger who just had a birthday, and about how bloggers come in every age from children up to 108 as far as we know.

Introducing Keith Dsouza, who will be writing for Successful Blog.

Ageless Thoughts from All Over the World

by Keith Dsouza

Do you have an age syndrome with blogging? Do you always think something like I am 32 or I am 58 and I can’t start blogging? Well welcome to a world that is ageless and has no restrictions on what you say. Welcome to blogging.

It’s an ageless project.

Most professions have age restrictions, blogging does not.

If you are 90 years old, you can blog about how your great grandchild plays with you with his toys and how you enjoy it.

If you are a 13 year old, you can tell the world how well you fared at your first baseball game.

If you are a mom or dad, you can write about your child’s growth and after few years, let him read it. You can look back at those cheerful memories again 10 years further down the line.

Age is never a factor for telling people what you love. A blog can get you there.

Blogging can make you friends with someone who you would never have approached in real life. I am 25 but I still have a great friend in Liz who old enough to be my mom. Blogging brought us together breaking the barrier of age, without blogging I wouldn’t have approached a woman of her age to be my friend.

Have you seen the ageless project? We’ll be using it to explore what bloggers of every age are doing. See the gnerations of people there. Then why not add your blog? You can do that by clicking the logo below.

the ageless project

Blogging has no restrictions and with the help of the ageless project, we will find and profile bloggers from a 13 year old to a 93 year old. Blogging is an ageless project. What we’ll be doing here is ageless too — the focus will be on how age isn’t a barrier in sharing your thoughts with the world.

Great thoughts come from every age and all over the planet.

–ME “Liz” Strauss and Keith Dsouza
Work with Liz!!

Filed Under: Community, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blogging-Olive-Riley, Keith-Dsouza, Techie-Buzz.com, the-ageless-project

Great Find: Better Comments Manager — Reply INSIDE the WordPress Dashboard

July 9, 2007 by Liz

I Want One!

From the first I started corresponding with Keith Dsouza, he’s been a special one — talented and creative. He can ask a simple question and turn the answer into a blog post. . . . Keith is one surprise after another. The biggest of all was when I turned around at the problogger meetup and heard a guy say, “I’m Keith.”

Keith is the guy who developed Better Comments Manager for WordPress. If you’re on WordPress and you don’t know about it; you’re missing something . . .

Great Find: Better Comments Manager
Permalink: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/better-comments-manager-just-got-better.html
Target Audience: WordPress users
Content: Put simply the Better Comments Manager plugin allows publishers to respond to comments from inside the WordPress dashboard — rather than making us wait for another pageload to type in the comment on the page itself. The process is easy.

  1. Click reply.
  2. A box will appear.
  3. Type a reply in the box.
  4. Click save reply.
  5. A message will say it’s being saved.
  6. The reply will appear as a comment in the lists.

To check this out, click the title below.

Better comments manager just got better

This is cool.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you find your strategy, click on the Work with Liz!!

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Filed Under: Successful Blog, Tech/Stats Tagged With: bc, Better-Comments-Manager, Great-Find, Keith-Dsouza, plug-ins

Great FUN: IM the Encarta Robot on MSN Chat!

July 2, 2006 by Liz

For Research, Homework, Fun

Keith Dsouza could carry on an intelligent conversation with anyone. So when MSN made a robot toanswer questions based on the information in Encarta. Keith was the perfect guy to challenge the robot to a conversational test run.

He did it to make sure that children everywhere would get the right answers on their homework.

Great Find: Talking to a robot on MSN Chat

Permalink: http://techie-buzz.com/technology-buzz/talking-to-a-robot-on-msn-chat.html

Audience/Topic: Anyone with MSN Chat and questions to research or kids with homework

Content: It’s easy to tell that Keith had fun doing the research and writing this article. He also spent the time to see exactly how and how well a the robot interface works. You can follow his questions and see word for word what the exchange was. The value the robot offers for kids who want to learn more about their favorite subject is right in Keith’s post. I can only imagine what my son might have done with this had it been around when he was young.

At the end of the conversation, Keith explains the easy as 1,2,3 how-to that is working with MSN Instant Messenger encarta@conversagent.com. MSN has found a great way to take on the ubiquitous Gmail with this one.

Keith has a future in reporting for kids. He kept me spellbound. He also might have a budding friendship with the Encarta robot.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Filed Under: Productivity, Successful Blog, Tools Tagged With: bc, Encarta, Keith-Dsouza, kids, MSN-Encarta-Robot, Productivity, research, ZZZ-FUN

SOB Business Cafe 06-23-2006

June 23, 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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Lorelle VanFossen discusses what she considers as she’s doing an informal study to find out the best days and times to post new content on her blog.

Lorelle on WordPress lorelle_wordpress_com

Keith Dsouza continues his series on the right software for blogging with a post on helping us choose the right blogging software and templates.

Choose the right Blogging Software and Templates

Ann Michael reminds us that all change involves conflict, and explores passive aggressive behaviors.

Manage to Change

Jason at Mental Tech pulls software from his archives to offers us free alternative software for popular office and photo-editing programs.

Mental Tech

Related ala carte selections include

Cheryl at Mad Baggage offers us hope for the Fairy Peguins. Linux lovers should like this.

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: Content, Design, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Personal Branding, Successful Blog Tagged With: Ann-Michael, bc, blogging-templates, change-behaviors, Fairy-Penguins, free-software, Keith-Dsouza, Lorelle-VanFossen, Mad-Baggage, Mental-Tech, passive-aggressive, posting-content, ZZZ-FUN

Easy File Backups

June 10, 2006 by Liz

You Know You Oughta

When he sent it, Keith said, “Share it with your readers. Let them save some money from expensive backup too.”

Great Find: Using Gmail to back up files with ease
Type of Article: How-to back-up files
Permalink: http://techie-buzz.com/technology-buzz/using-gmail-to-back-up-files-with-ease.html
Target Audience: Every computer user

Content: Keith Dsouza describes himself as pretty fussy about backing up his files. So he’s just the guy you want writing a post about how to do it. The post is short and sweet. It tells you how and it tells you why.And it does so in Keith’s most readably friendly writing style. End of story. Click the title and go to see his new blog, Techie-buzz.

608 techie buzz Using Gmail  to back up files.Jpg

Thanks, Keith.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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