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At the Blog Herald: Getting Jazzed for Real

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It’s Like Music

In the groove, in the zone, time slips away; action follows action naturally. It’s as if what we do is what was meant to be. It’s exhilarating.

Did you ever notice that you get in the zone when you’re perfectly prepared for a task — one you’ve been waiting for? When it’s “bring it on” kind of task, you’re likely to jump into a flow state.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Blog Herald Today: If You See This, The Content Is Stolen

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Sometimes Irony Is Sweet

As a writer, I’ve always taken the idea of owning my work seriously. As a publisher, I’ve always understood that no one can copyright an idea. As blogger, I’m tired of seeing people steal what my friends and I have spent our time working on, tired of watching sploggers toss ads up alongside our work to make their money.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Blog Herald Today: Are You Looking in the Right Direction?

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Looking Up and Letting Things Down

I heard my little boy say, “Don’t look that way,” as he pointed left, “and walk that way,” as he pointed right. He was telling me to be looking in the right direction to navigate the mountain.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Blog Herald Today: The Writer’s Dilemma and the Blogger’s Secret

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Writing and Blogging — The Difference

We often talk about writing and blogging. Go see what bloggers have that writers do not.

Quote after quote tells the story of writers who know that they have to go it alone. Every blogger worth his or her blogging salt knows the same thing.

Yet we do it. Why do we do it? We have a secret.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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On the Tipping Point of Communications

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Connectors and Mavens on the Tipping Point

Something Mark Goodyear said yesterday about SOBCon reminded me of how often folks have called me a connector or a maven and of how many connectors and mavens I know.

. . . a connector and a maven – one who links like-minded people and one who gathers and shares deep information . . . that sounds the definition of almost every relationship blogger I know. We are connectors and mavens at the tipping point of communication.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Mike Sansone Conducting Relationships

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It Takes a Train Guy to Start a ConverStation

Did people build the trains and then the towns spring up around them? OR Did the towns start while the rails were being laid? I don’t know, but I know a guy who does. Mike Sansone knows that the railroads forged relationships linking people in the same way that bloggers link and interact online, by voice, and in person.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Liz Strauss at The Blog Herald, The Blogging Times, and Who’s One in a Million?