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Link Love for Making Us Smarter

Today I’m celebrating official Blogtipping Day. How about you? As the song goes “Give a little bit . . .” Here’s how it works.

Choose three bloggers you admire and link to them.
List three reasons why you admire each one.
Then add a tip at the end.

That’s all there is to it.

Improbulus

When I go to your blog, A Consuming Experience, I know that I’ll find deep content that’s unique and useful.
You test the tutorials and tools that you discover. I can trust that your review is what it says.
I don’t know what you do when you’re not blogging, but I’d like to suggest some software companies who could use your documentation skills.

Tip: Happy New Year! Are you best friends with your header? It might be fun to plan a new one for the new year. I would rewrite your description as bad poetry . . . Just kidding.

Lorelle VanFossen

It’s a favorite trip to visit Lorelle at WordPress. I’m always surprised and delighted at what I find there to get my brain going.
Lorrelle, you write posts about how folks get ideas, but you have so many. Every post has a new and interesting twist. I’m always amazed by them.
You know your stuff, but you translate so that nongeeky folks like me can understand what it’s about.

Tip: You’ve gotten so good at this . . . could you mess up once in a while?

Becky McCray

One visit to Small Biz Survival and I get my energy renewed and my spirit lifted.
Becky, your new design is an example of how a small biz can present itself and I applaud every one of your brag backet features!
Your ideas are fresh and yet, the’re imminently doable. They work in Oklahoma and the big city.

Tip: I might be missing it, but I don’t think you talk enough about ALL OF THE THINGS YOU DO SO WELL. I know you brag once in a while, but one conversation let me know that it’s so understated.

Thanks to all three of you for bringing positivity to the blogosphere. I’m smiling just to think of the contribution you make.

–Me “Liz” Strauss

New Year’s Eve Snacks and Beverages in the Sidebar

December 31, 2006 by Liz

Holidays Come with Traditions

This holiday brings celebrations of things to come . . . of great things that have happened . . . and of great burdens that we have faced down. Congratulations on having made it through another year! May you have a great one before you filled with happiness, joy, and wonder.

I’m happy to be here tonight, making sure that there’s at least one safe place open with plenty of snacks and beverages in the sidebar. If you need anything, I’m right in your computer, enjoy the evening and follow the usual rule — be nice.

Be nice to everyone. Don’t drink and blog.

Happy New Year’s Eve,

Your local saloonkeeper’s daughter.
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Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag . . .

December 26, 2006 by Liz

Oh, I Get It , , , Now!

I was tagged at the very beginning of the five things meme. Then it happened that I got tagged again and again and again. Each time I said “thank you” for giving me an assignment I’d aleady completed. Soon I was tagged a fourth time. Then tagged a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh . . .

It took me a while to catch on to the fact that I needed to get five more things in a post. My life-long friend, Nancy, has been telling me for these many years, “Ya know, Liz, sometimes you’re so fast, and sometimes you are sooo sloooow.”

So here they are for those guys who tagged me on this second round: Carl, Thord, Thilak, Jason, PC, Mike, and Phil. Gosh, I hope I named you all.

Five Things Most Folks Don’t Know about Me

I’m claustrophobic. I didn’t know that either until my son was about three. It’s the most interesting, amazing feeling to physically compell myself out of a small space at what feels like 90 mph.

I didn’t like the original smiley face or the good-bye phrase “Have a nice day.” In college, I had a t-shirt with a frowny face and a patch on the back of my blue jeans that said, “Have a nice night.”

I didn’t go to my prom in high school, but I turned down two nice, intelligent, good-looking guys who asked me. I was afraid we’d have nothing to talk about.

My first nickname ever was “Bashful.” I got a dominant self-conscious gene. My second nickname was “Mushy.” My dad called me “Babydoll.” My mom called me “Petunia.”

I was Alice in Wonderland in college. I went to get a hot ham and cheese sandwich and noticed the auditions on the way there. I probably would have kept going — I didn’t know anyone in the theater department — but the girl reading for Alice was just so . . . . someone had to do something! You know what I mean?

So there you have them — five more things about me — things I don’t think about much these days. Maybe that’s why most folks don’t know them.

–Me “Liz” Strauss

Links Leaked on the Favorite Foods

December 20, 2006 by Liz

. . . And There’s Recipes to Share

Yep. Tuesday Open Comments Night was a regular potluck this week. Plenty of food, recipes and stories to share . . . we talked about buffets, feasts, cooking, baking, recipes, cookbooks, Asian food, Indian food, Mexican food, fruit, veggies, fish, chicken, beef, eating in, eating out, chocolate, comfort food, ice cream, Klondike bars, champagne, cookies and cocoa, yogurt, licorice, smoothies, cakes, donuts, coffee, cheeseburgers, pizza, sushi, eggnog, peanut butter, macaroni and cheese with extras, running out of food in Seattle-land, okra and rice, cheeseballs with crackers, hash browns, etc. I even heard some mention of spam.

The Link Leak Virus was with us as well. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes and keeps Open Comment Night a link free-for-all.

Here’s some of the links we shared.

curried butternut-squash soup.
secret favorite cookbook
holiday card
photos of the storm damage in Seattle-land and a recipe for Apricot-Glazed Chicken with Dried Plums and Sage
chicken salad in whole-wheat bread bowl
website URL

What Did We Do . . .

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One-in-a-Million Award for Every One-in-a-Million Blogger

December 20, 2006 by Liz

Yeah, It’s a One-in-a-Million Kind of Thing

One-in-a-Million by Trée George and Sandy Renshaw

My husband tells me that if someone on the planet is saying, “one in million” there’s a good chance that person is talking about me.

I know it’s not so. I know there are plenty of us who fit in that “one in a million” category. So I’ve decided to celebrate how unique we all are with an award!

I’m calling it the The One-in-a-Million Award for One-in-a-Million Bloggers. Everything about it is a one-of-a-kind thing. Read the rules and you’ll understand where I’m going. Then join on in, and we’ll get this party rolling. When it’s over, I’ll make a giant list of the One-in-a-Million Bloggers that we all know.

Here’s how to participate. It’s easy.

Make up a one-in-a-million category — use lots of detail to name it.
Choose a one-in-a-million blogger — the only one who fits that description.
Collect the following information:
your descriptive name of the category, a link to the blog and the blog author Your description probably explains every reason why you named it a one-in-a-million blog so that’s already covered. Do include a link to your own one-in-a-million blog and your own name — so that I can link back to you as the one-in-a-million nominator and cohort well..
If you’d do me the favor to write One-in-a-Million in the subject line of an email and send all of the information to me at lizsun2@gmail.com, I sure would think you were one-in-a-million for helping me out that way.
Go with the One-in-a-Million theme and only submit one please. I know you know two million people, but most of us don’t.
The awards go on until December 31, 2006, 11:59 CST. (Chicago Time)
And of course, be nice.

I’ll be the one-in-a-million judge. If I need help, I’ll ask few one-in-a-million friends I know for an opinion. Every day between now and the end of the year, I’ll be posting the links of both the one-in-a-million bloggers and the one-in-a-million benefactors who named them.

What An Award Posting Looks Like

Here are two one-in-a-million bloggers I already know. Just follow this handy-dandy One-in-a-Million format and you’ll do fine.

For the One-in-a-Million-Category of:

Sci-Fi storytelling and amazing art that moves people. This category requires talent that comes from a heart and soul mixed of cookies, tea, generosity, and filled up with listening, love and downright humanity. This award is bestowed with extra points for providing the art for the One-in-a-Million logo poster because all someone ever needs to do is ask.

Trée George at Decandent Tranquility

This award was submitted by: One-in-a-Million Cohort Liz Strauss

For the One-in-a-Million-Category of:

Being in love with people and graphics. This category requires always wanting to connect the two, laughing a lot, and having kind words for everyone, and somehow being able to spell customer service and help from the letters, Sandy. This award comes with special points for turning the art that Trée provided into the One-in-a-Million Logo poster, never stopping until it was a great example of her graphic abilities.

Sandy Renshaw at PurpleWren Workshop

This award was submitted by: One-in-a-Million Cohort Liz Strauss

So there you go . . . Haven’t you wanted to be a cohort just one time? Here’s your chance to do so in a big way. Who do you think is one-in-a-million? Take a minute. Make up a wild one-in-a-million category and let the world know.

Happy Holidays!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 12-15-06

December 15, 2006 by Liz

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.