It’s Like Open Mic Only Different
Here’s how it works.
It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.
DING! DING! DING! Some comment boxes are pre-loaded with a prize.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
TODAY, ALL DAY, IT’S A PARTY!!

Other Birthday Kids
Bring a Link! Bring a Link!
That’s right, you’re invited to bring a link to your most successful post. When you leave the link, please write a comment about how you chose the most successful post to bring.
- Bring a link to a page, a picture, a post that demonstrates, celebrates, illuminates your success and outstanding-ness as a blogger.
- Or bring that ebook, that manifesto, that photo, that priceless work that you want to offer as a birthday gift to everyone.
I’ll compile a list of all of the links when the party is over.
C’mon in and get to know us! There’s free beverages and snacks in the sidebar. Join the party. See who you meet. Stay and come back again.
Happy Birthday, all of you! Thank you for making what we do meaningful!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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At any rate my blog is called doozieUp and the major focus of my blog is inspiring my readers to live their dreams and go after the life they truly long for. Here is a post below that represents how I feel about chasing our dreams in the state of this current economy. http://www.doozieup.com/2008/10/the-cycles-of-prosperity/
Happy Birthday again Successful Blog!
-doozieUp
Hi Michael!
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Your choice of food and dreams are a fine way to start a birthday bash!
Happy Birthday to Successful Blog!
My most popular post is this one: http://tinyurl.com/6pqqax
It’s called The One Place You Must See Before You Die & it includes an exercise to help increase your awareness of the present moment. It’s a present of the present, in other words!
Hi Amy!
I remember the first post I read of yours. It blew me away. Every one of them since has the same effect.
Happy Birthday!
It’s an honor to have my blog, All American Blogger on the list. Thanks, Liz.
I started the blog with my best friend from high school May of 2007 and it has been a blast. I do the writing, for the most part, and he does all the coding.
It’s a political blog, and some here might not agree with my politics, but that’s America, right?
The post I chose is one that was popular on my site with my readers, and one that is one of my favorites. It’s called, “I Bought a Gallon of Milk Today.”
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2089/i-bought-a-gallon-of-milk-today/
Happy Birthday again, and thanks for making a member of the club.
Liz — Happy B-day to a great blog published by someone who is a must meet for me in 09.
Here is a post I did about blogging being dead…NOT http://is.gd/509j
Hi Duane,
I remember when I copied your logo. I had to reconstruct part of it because you had a corner ad over it. Then when I went to attach the link you had the logo free again.
Your blog deserves to be read that’s why you’re on the list. 🙂
Thanks for coming. You’re not a stranger.
Hey Liz,
Hold on a sec, I need to warm up…meeemeemeeemeee. Okay, I’m ready.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Super Liz’s fantastic Successful Blooooooooo-oooogggg. Happy birthday to yoooouuuuu! 🙂
I’ve learned so much about blogging, connecting and building community and friendships from you and this great community. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
So, for one of my fave posts, I’m going with:
“Running To Catch The Sun” at http://is.gd/50f3
It just came tumbling out one morning at the beach so organically, the way you hope all posts can come.
Enjoy!
PS – Sorry if I was singing a bit of key before, it was pre-coffee ya know. 🙂
Happy Birthday, Successful Blog!! And congratulations Liz 🙂
Here’s my most successful post: http://tinyurl.com/32o2wo
“Is A Location Independent Life Cheaper Than Living In One Place? A 12 Month Breakdown.”
Chosen because it took ages to compile but I knew it was what people wanted to read (and I wanted to demonstrate) so it was well worth the effort!
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the song, for the post, for the friendship that started with the wonderful phone call. You’re a wonder!
Happy Blogging Birthday Liz! I am so happy I have been able to be a part of your community and also to have had the great fortune of meeting you, too. In honor of your big day, I am bringing you two links – two of your favorites from my site:
How Do You Explain Blogging to your Mom
Getting Organized on a Tuesday Night
Let’s just call them oldies but goodies!
I’ll be stopping in from time to time today – in between tackling my monster sized to do list.
Hi Lea!
Great to see you! The best part about this party is seeing who comes and what they bring for everyone to read. That’s a perfect choice for this list.
Hi Char!
You know me so well! They’re classics and they truly are my favorites . . . thank you!
It’s great to get in out of the snow and warm up here…thanks for the example you set for all of us…many, many returns to this side of the sun for you and your work here…I leave behind this post on “Variety, the colors of a marketplace” http://tinyurl.com/6o7zqs
Richard
Chúc m?ng sinh nh?t
Happy Birthday from Vietnam!
Here is an inspirational photo I took from the top of Australia:
http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/10/24/daily-travel-photo-new-south-wales-australia-6
Happy anniversary! My most favorite post is about how to “own the customer”. For a different view on the topic, I simply take the real route.
http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2008/10/26/biz-minute-how-to-own-the-customerwtf/
Hi Richard!
C’mon in! Food and beverages in the sidebar. Look at all of what everyone’s brought already.
Thanks for that colorful addition of your. 🙂
Happy birthday w00t! Aw Liz, yer asking the impossible 😉 the most successful post? Ugh! 🙂
Alright, I’m submitting this one because the writing is raw & honest; it reveals me (the blogger & you talk a lot about that Liz); and it’s also about the reason I do what I do on the blog & in the world with people. Lastly, people I work with go through what’s described in the post too.
Soul Bravery
Hi Gary,
Welcome! Nice to meet you!
Love the name of your blog!
Beautiful gift. Thank you!
Hi John,
Welcome!
How fine to see a twitter friend here! Customers are special to me too. I’m delighted to add what you brought to the list. 🙂
Pamir!
I ask the impossible?
And you make it happen.
Look at the name of what you brought . . . Wow!
Hi Liz and a very Happy Birthday to you! Thanks for everything! Barbara Swafford said we take you on a journey not only of our travels, but of our lives. Pete thought that was a better description than our own! Here’s an example: “Small” http://tinyurl.com/69hdxg
Happy Birthday Liz! I brought the moon bounce so we can all jump around and celebrate! I will never forget the day I got the SOB Award. Although I just figured out how to get it on my new blog, it has driven my blogging day in and day out. I am so happy to celebrate with you today and wish for many more years of successful conversations!
My most successful post was Timeless Tuesday. I chose it because it was a departure from my usual post and so much fun to write. It also stands out for me because of the wonderful interactions in the community of commenters.
http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/timeless-tuesday/
Hi Karen,
I remember our conversation and will never forget the “moon bounce.” So glad you brought it for this celebration. What fun!
Hey Liz – Has it been 3 years already!!!
I remember the days when …
To all, I’m SOB #231 – but I prefer my current site. 🙂
What did I bring to the party?
Well no real link – I just came back from seeing the documentary “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” – google it, lots of reviews and vids.
My long-held view is that gonzo journalism was the forerunner to today’s blogs.
Have a happy birthday you SOB’s and Liz, you scoundrel … you no want the mock-up I did for ya book? Fine! I’ll just have to use it myself… 😉
Happy birthday Liz!
My newest blog http://www.wisequeen.com launched in August, the purpose, to inform and inspire. While this post did not reach record comments, I include it here for it’s inspirational value to all writers waiting to be published.
http://www.wisequeen.com/?p=71
Happy Birthday SOBs! Congrats Liz! 😀
My most successful post in terms of pageviews was “25 Ways to Spice Up Your Blog Post Photos.” Never had a post take off so well on social media before. 😀
@Lea Woodward – That post was brilliant! I’ve gotten use out of Liz’s birthday celebration already! 😀
Hey Martin,
Here’s a beer and some nachos. So good to see you. I’ll go switch out your site AGAIN. Kickstart was on the list once . . . [grin]
You’re a gonzo journalist if I ever knew one. I can’t wait to watch the video you’re talking about. 😉
Howdy Liz and fellow SOBs! Happy Birthday and a big tip o’ the hat to the most influential blog in MY particular universe, with many more to come!
Without a doubt the most influential post I ever did was the “Let’s Be Brief” 6-word story contest I ran back in January of 2007. We garnered over 500 entries from 71 participants, and a great time was had by all.
And for a Birthday present to anyone who wants it, here’s the link to my e-book, Poke It With A Sharp Stick.
Enjoy!
Happy birthday!
One of my favorite posts has got to be:
http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/552/business-school-in-a-box-2
because it started an interesting conversation and that to me is the best thing about blogging!
Hello Robert!
Your 6-word story contest forged a strong and familiar connection between your blog and mine.
It’s 6-word history of our lives.
Thanks for choosing to bring that.
Thanks for your eBook too! You are a generous one. Always were.
Happy Birthday Successful Blog and Happy Birthday to all the other blogs of the day 🙂 All the best in the new year of blogging, Liz!
I brought a link to one of my most successful posts ever: most views (over 10,000), most commented, and it was extremely fun to write:
http://wordsofabrokenmirror.com/2008/03/26/linux-the-best-way-to-increase-girls-sexiness-factor/
AGAIN. What are you trying to say there? That I’m indecisive, a procrastinator, Get Bored Easily!!! Oh yeah, I am all that … and more. [bigger grin]
“gonzo journalist”: how dare you label me! I’m an um, journalist that is um … influenced by the gonzo style, nothing more, nothing less – now give me my plate of nachos, some wild turkey, a pen and some paper and I’ll write the best damn account of this SOB gathering …
Ahh screw it, I’m of to bed. It’s 1am. So Goodnight to all and I expect nothing less than to hear that SOB blew up the servers in a mass of fireworks as commenter’s shoved and pushed and rushed to join in the mayhem.
Ah, Martin,
You just explained all of the reasons that you’ll always be welcome on this blog. 🙂
Happy blog birthday Liz! I know you’ll have many, many more successful years to come and great new things always on the horizon!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/divajess/18183754/in/set-513088/
#6
Hey Grant!
Sorry you were stuck!
Thanks for the wishes and the link to your post. Hope you have a great flight to your meeting today!
Happy Birthday Liz!
What a great idea for a party! I’d like to pass out some klondikes to everyone! Here you go….
It’s been a great inspiration to follow you and this wonderful community. I can’t wait until I can get back to the Tuesday night routine! Thanks for your inspiration.
Hi Betsy!
Welcome and thank you for the birthday wishes! Love the post that you brought. Those are some fine testimonials, but the post really speaks for itself.
@Michael Martin – Thank you Michael, that was very nice to hear! Glad you liked the post – was most definitely worth trawling through 12 months worth of bank statements for even just 1 person to find it useful 🙂
But I have to say that I think your post trumps mine in terms of usefulness…love the photo tutorials.
Hi Donna!
Welcome. Thanks for the timely contribution. Everyone seems to be interested in self-publishing these days. 🙂
#27
Hi Michael,
Glad to hear you’re already checking the links people brought. I am too!
I’ve bookmarked that link you brought. I’ve been looking to kick things up a notch when my new design is done. 🙂
Hi John,
Thanks for coming all the way over. It’s great to see you on this side of the pond. I can see why that link is one of your favorites. I also like the top business post you did earlier this year. 🙂
DING! DING! DING!
MARTIN!
When you wake, you’ve won a copy of LeaWoodward’s ebook, The Indispensable Guide To Living & Working From Anywhere You Want
Alina,
I’m smiling to think that you need Linux to get attention. Smart, beautiful and . . . Thanks for coming and bring that fun. 🙂
wow, Jess!
That’s something! I can see you walking on those clouds. You go, girl! Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Hey Eric,
Thanks for bring the Klondike bars!
It’ll be great to have you back on Tuesday nights. 🙂
Are you going to bring something from your blog to add to the list of successful blog posts? 🙂
#44
Hi CK,
Welcome! Thanks for coming. I see you have the same glitchy thing with names that I do. . . .
Love your enthusiam and the name of your post! Hope you hang around some. 🙂
Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!
I used to post here a while ago with a different blog. Just starting up my blogging again. My post is:
How to Cook: Cooking Lessons from the Ground Up
http://lin.cr/4mn
The post is successful for me from a personal stand point. Having just started I can’t measure it from comments or page views. But personally I’m proud of it. It has been bubbling around in me for a while. I think the series will be useful and could impact at least a few people’s lives for the better. For that I feel its successful.
Happy birthday dear lizland, happy birthday to you. *throws confetti*
How does it feel to be a great big three? 🙂
So, um, I brought chocolate. 🙂 And there was coffee but I drank it all on the way over. 😐 Time to place another order through @starbucks!
Say, is that a moonbounce? 😀
Hi Rose!
Glad to see you again! I love that you’re doing something you believe and feeling successful about it. 🙂
I’m sure that you’ll be making lives better.
Happy Birthday Liz! I haven’t commented here before so it’s about time to get started 🙂
I don’t think it’s my most successful post but it’s one of my favorites – Believing in Myself and Taking a Leap – http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/believing-in-myself-and-taking-a-leap/
And here is a really sweet photo of a mama and baby giraffe that I came across the other day.
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/baby-and-mommy-giraffes/
Hey Amy,
Thanks for coming to the party. It wouldn’t be right without you here. I’m feeling taller already.
Yep, a moonbounce!!
Hey, where’s your post?
Hiya Kim,
It’s something special when someone writes their first comment on the birthday post. I’m sending you a copy of my ebook. Right now!!
Amy, Amy, the bouncing is good come on in! 🙂 I’m back and I have a yummy veggie casserole, it’s getting to close to lunch and oh yes cheesecake (it’s calorie free today!).
Hey Liz!
This is a pretty amazing accomplishment…Hope today is awesome for you!
Saul Colt
http://www.saulcolt.com
http://www.freshbooks.com
Hi Liz!
Congrats on the 3 year Bday!
And thank you very much for the invite. I really appreciate it. You’re the epitome of great networking!
The link I want to share with all successful and outstanding bloggers is my own personal story of how I quit my corporate consulting job to start pursuing my passion through blogging.
It’s a very long one, but I wrote it to help those who might feel down and out about blogging (in terms of hoping it will make them enough money as their job did) as well as for those who feel down and out about pursuing whatever dream they’re currently going for.
It’s entitled:
It CAN Be Done: Let Nobody Else Tell You Otherwise
http://briankim.net/blog/2008/03/it-can-be-done-let-nobody-else-tell-you-otherwise/
I hope that it can provide the boost that we all sometimes need to get through the rough patches in our lives.
Thanks again for the invite and I hope you and the rest of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers will enjoy it.
Regards,
Brian
Brian Kim!
How wonderful to see you!
We’ve been linked for the longest time! I think we show how little bloggers grow together.
I love the link you choose.
Saul!
The smartest man in the world!!
What a cool thing to see you here!
Bring me a link to your best blog post. C’mon I want your brilliance on the list when I publish it.
grin.
Liz – Thank you so much 🙂 I stop by for YOUR party and you give me a gift. Amazing.
Wonderful to see you as well Liz!
I believe we were introduced by a third party who planted a link to one of my articles on your blog a long, long while back.
I guess we have him/her to thank for linking us (I believe you have an idea of who that person is)
In any event, congratulations again on everything. You have a very unique skill that not a lot of people have in this world. Everybody seems to gravitate toward your positive, enthusiastic, friendly energy and I hope the next 3 years will be even better.
Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.
Thanks again.
Brian
Yeah, Brian,
One of these days, we’ll have to meet in person and invite all of the folks we now have in common. 🙂
Hey Liz,
How did I almost forget the link! This first one is one I liked to write and I think is important for leaders to consider when trying to help develop other leaders
http://leadershipramblings.blogspot.com/2008/08/leading-from-back-4-rules-to-developing.html
This second link amazes me, because it was written back in January, but it still gets the most daily hits. It was just a fun way to get to know my readers and it seems to still get a lot of hits
http://leadershipramblings.blogspot.com/2008/01/best-showers-morning-or-night.html
Happy Birthday again Liz!!
Happy Birthday SOB!
Just dropping by to join the festivities
Hi Katie,
That cake was delicious! Thanks for the idea!
Now I’m ready to devour your post! Thanks for coming in the spirit of the occasion. I’m smiling to see you. 🙂
Hi Eric!
So glad that you brought some things for the list! Everyone who picks up the list will be grateful too.
Love that showers post myself. 🙂
Happy Birthday, Liz! Congratulations on reaching the milestone. The SOB list was and is still a fantastic idea. 721?!? Wow…That must have taken an age to go through over the last few weeks.
My link isn’t to my most successful post, just my most recent one 😀
http://www.twentysteps.com/lost-blogging-feeling/
As you found when you were compiling the SOB list the other day, a lot of good blogs have disappeared over the last couple of years and this post kinda sums it up in 3 minutes 40 seconds 🙂
Hi Mike,
I agree. Thanks for the link you choose. Thinking back we’re starting to understand that people (and blogs) weave into/out of our lives as they do in the concrete world. Seems more real here though. 🙂
Hey Liz
Happy 3rd B-Day! You look great 🙂
I am so happy to have met you.
It had been so much fun with you.
Giovanna Garcia
Happy Blog Birthday Liz,
Your blog rocks and it was great to “meet” you and get to know you through it… and I continue to be honored to be an SOB.
I am submitting what is not only my longest blog post ever (sorry) but the one most “successful” to me….written yesterday in honor of what would have been my mother’s 96th birthday http://www.resonancepartnership.com/2008/10/my_amazing_mother.html
XXOO
Hey Giovanna!
Welcome to the party.
How are you today?
Liz
My most successful blog, that I am most happy with is the follow 2. Because I felt it really touch people to take action.
http://tinyurl.com/68otgq
http://tinyurl.com/5w36m9
So those are my party gifts to you.
Many more happy birthday to you 🙂
Love, Giovanna Garcia
How embarrassing.. Liz, I just finished writing back to Melissa. and obviously I CANNOT multi-task….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZ! Blogger magnificent!
I should be working, but I am going to work while I party with you today 🙂
Are you wearing a birthday hat?
Happy Birthday, Liz! This is quite an accomplishment!
Liz, the post I want to share has been one of my most popular and it’s one that I enjoyed writing because it’s about a hero of mine who has had a tremendous effect on my life and work as a writer: Bob Marley.
Of course, I’ve written several other posts about Bob, but many people seem to like this one because it goes to the heart of Bob’s music:
http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2006/07/fable-of-freedom-i-shot-sheriff.html
Enjoy!
Hi Liz,
I want to squeeze in one more link just because this one is near and dear to my heart as it’s the very first article I posted and the one that exploded through the blogosphere the same day.
It answers the question that a lot of people have in their lives and it’s helped so many people who’ve read it that I want to put it out there for those who haven’t got to chance to read it so they may benefit from it as well.
It’s entitled:
How to Find What You Love to Do
http://briankim.net/blog/2006/07/how-to-find-what-you-love-to-do/
It still remains one of the top links that I get traffic from, has the most comments, and I still get emails down to this very day from people who’ve read it, thanking me for it because it helped them find that direction we’re all so desperately seeking for when it comes to the work we want to do.
Thanks again for the invite and for this project. I think I speak for all bloggers when we say we really appreciate it!
Brian
Hey Giovanna
Your philosophy so inspires people to try new things. I’m delighted you brought something to add to the list.
#73
CK,
Seriously, I do the same thing. No reason to feel badly. Being human is something all of humans have in common. 🙂
No party hat, Giovanna,
But I’m glad you’ll be working alongside me. 🙂
Happy Birthday Melissa, I never knew bloggers could have so much fun. I might just consider calling myself one…
My most successful post is titled “What does being naked in a sauna have to do with manifesting your purpose.” For me this is a personal success because my writing came after a trip to the sauna and an insight on my work in the world and how not everyone wants what I have to give. It’s more of the rush I felt when writing something that was so clear to me in my own heart.
http://tinyurl.com/6mvtw5
I’m excited to read all these posts!
Hi Geoffrey,
Ah, Bob Marley. Thanks for bringing the music — especially such a nice feeling, deep thoughtful piece to us.
It means a lot that you came. 🙂
Just checkin’ back in, man this joint is jumping…and it’s still early!
Brian,
Of course you’re welcome to bring back that one. I remember it well and it’s well worth sharing again. Thank you for thinking of it. 🙂
Liz
running into a meeting, I will be back in an hour. Keep the fun going. Put up that MTV thing from yesterday. Everyone can dance to it. Back in flash.
Giovanna Garcia
Hello and HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY!
Liz,
You certainly have impacted the blogging world — one heart and one conversation at a time. You set the example and the standard!
—
My most read post “Ramrod, doormat, or ⦠?” is here (thanks for asking): http://tinyurl.com/3q4zmw
#71
Hi Marianne,
This is our third one together isn’t it? How cool is that? Thank you for being here through all of the growing pains.
What definition of success to bring a description of your mother. It’s an honor to add that to the list.
xxoo to you too.
Happy Birthday – on the new moon in Scorpio. Power! Here’s my freebe eBook link for Astro YogaBabes.
http://yogababecafe.com/free-astro-yogababes/
thanks for checking back in, Jonathan!
#85
Hi Lori!
Thanks for always showing up with your head and your heart to listen and to add your own wisdom. 🙂
Liz
Meeting cancel. I m back at the party, are we dancing yet?
Giovanna Garcia
Feliz Cumpleaños, Liz!
First, eats: here is a link to that unique-to-Chicago dessert, the Atomic Cake. (Just scroll down a little ways to see it and grab a slice.)
Liz, besides your ability to both nurture and inspire the blogging community, you are so polite and gracious. I mean, in an old-school, bygone era style. This is one of your most outstanding qualities.
Courtesy is one of the things that is easy to learn but yet is absent from many human interactions.
I first thought I would bring one of my resources posts to the party.
However, out of deference to the birthday blogger, instead I am sharing one related to courtesy.
This is a post about written expressions of gratitude: Thank You Notes: Do you or don’t you?.
I am NOT an etiquette expert, and courtesy isn’t one of my blog’s categories. Yet, I have been amazed at the continuing interest in this topic.
Of course, we’re dancing, eating, drinking, talking, and conspiring. . . . like every other day. 🙂
So, what has been the most fun for you (or anyone else out there) in the 3 years of blogging?
It’s not a party until the drinks get poured. Cocktail anyone? http://tinyurl.com/4trvsz
Two shots for Liz
-doozieUp!
Hi Lori,
For me definitely meeting the people in person. 🙂
#91 Lori
To see good role model like Liz and seeing how she is a success, and Know that we all can be successful-blogger like her. And in my own blog, when I see that my message touch them, and they took an action becasue of it
🙂 that bring me great joy.
Giovanna Garcia
#92
Thanks for the cocktail, Michael!
#87
Hi Adele
Welcome and thanks for the astro interpretation. Good to know! It’s fun to be able to add you to the list of links for the party.
And btw, I hope you don’t mind I bring 2 links in my comment. I like to bring extra to a party =). Of course, you can just pick one of them.
Cheers,
Robert
Liz,
Yes, it would be cool to meet my online friends for some face time!
Giovanna,
Role model is an apt description!
I agree — when people are moved to act because of a post of mine, it warms my heart, too.
Robert,
Thank you for coming and sincerely adding so much to the party. It’s a pleasure to have you here and your link are both valuable offerings.
Please feel welcome. 🙂
Hello PC!
It’s my pleasure to see you here! I’ve watch you grow right alongside me. I feel like we’re in the same generation. I remember that post and I smile to think that’s the one that you choose.
Lori,
I think it’s inevitable that the occasion will come that you’re in the same room with someone you met through your blog or theirs. Can’t wait until you do. 🙂
Sorry, I got stuck in the moonbounce. 😀
*smacks self in head to stop the bouncing*
You want links, do you? 😮
Ok, um, well, my “nice” posts are never very successful. 😉
This one isn’t my most commented or viewed, but I like it — and it’s appropriate for my day today — so I’m saying that makes it successful:
Sucking the Suck Out of Corporate Presentations (or, Conversations With Monkeys)
This one has gotten me the most invitations for coffee:
Netiquette Rant #409 (or, Introducing the Cut-the-Crap-o-Matic)
Funny how we all judge success differently, eh?
P.S. You should know that the cartoon you on the cartoon couch inside my computer is wearing a party hat and eating pizza. Really, she is. 🙂
Happy birthday, to all SOB’s too of course
Been so very busy today I only managed to ‘land’ here just a few minutes before I go home – and I wish all of you a very pleasant party (sure it will go on until the late hours ;-))
Brought a link – my latest post even, but think it does explain my kiss2 blog best: how to keep things simple but effective in business:
“Why don’t I hear from them?”
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
Happy birthday, blog! Liz takes such good care of you, isn’t this a nice party she threw for you?
Now, about social media and networking and all that? Let me introduce you to the world of knitters-who-blog. I went to the NY Sheep and Wool festival in Rhinebeck a week or so ago and saw not one, not ten, but thousands of knitters, many of whom were running around, happily introducing themselves to other knitters whose blogs they read. It’s like a high school reunion where you like EVERYBODY, even the people you’ve never, technically, met before.
Here’s a link to my blog post:
http://chappysmom.com/2008/10/18/br-r-r-rhinebeck/
It took me longer to put in all the links to people’s blogs than it did to actually WRITE the post.
Liz,
You are truly one of a kind, and I’m grateful for all your generosity in introducing me to so many great blogs, and bloggers. I’m including a link to a post that I wrote in about 10 minutes — but had an absolute blast doing. It was a chance to let people know that even though times are tough, we should still remember to laugh a bit. It’s called “10 Signs to Know You’ve Gone Off the Stress Meter at Work”
http://www.45things.com/2008/10/10-signs-to-know-youve-gone-off-stress.php
Happy birthday. Here’s to many more.
hey Deb, I am a knitter-who-blogs, too. Great to find you here at Liz’s party.
Liz, the truth is, the Middle Zone just wouldn’t have been the same without you and your community at Successful Blog! You guys inspired me to be what I’ve become – uh, whatever THAT is! 😀
Cheers, and many happy returns, y’all!
Hey Liz,
Happy Birthday… You deserve the bestest, most fantasitic, awesomenest, celebration ever. You are an inspiration!!
I’m so excited I can’t spell.
Can’t stay but wanted to say happy birthday!
Hey Liz, I’m 4 going on 5 months into blogging with doozieUp and I am enjoying every minute of it. It gets hard sometimes trying to manage the blog full time work and family life simultaneously. What would you as a 3 year veteran say is the most important aspect to growing a blog? What was the biggest challenge you have faced over the 3 years?
Thanks,
-doozieUp!
Hey Amy,
Those posts truly represent you and your blog. I think they’re hilarious . . . most invitations for coffee huh? You should write a successful post about your successful post.
And tell the cartoon version of me to quit slacking. . . . 🙂
Happy Birthday!!
I remember the day I found you. Josh looked at what you had to say and said you need to call her now, not tomorrow.
Smart boy.
Hey Amy
Those are my favorites post of yours 🙂
Giovanna
Hi Karin!
So glad you made it by and I love the choice that you made. The title alone is a great addition to the list. Don’t we all want to know the answer to that question?
xx
–Deb,
Wow that must have been on heck of an amazing experience! I bet you’ll be building a lifetime of new experiences from that one day alone. And to think it all started with a blog. 🙂
Katie!
Even cooler that you’re both here at the same time. 🙂
#108
Hey Anita!
I’m thinking that post makes me glad that I work for myself. Everyone is working so hard these days that we all need a laugh. Thanks for bringing one for us.
Robert,
We bring the best out in each other. 😉
Just so you know, I’m rocking out to the Kinks…old school…in the background. Loooooooola, Lo Lo Lo a Loooolaa.
Liz, you throw a heck of a party! 🙂
#114
Hey BawldGuy.
Don’t think that I ever told you, but when you called I was taking a nap. 🙂
Glad to have you in my life.
Hi Liz, got to re-submit this comment, as the one earlier is missing in the space.
First, would like to thank you for including me in this party. And of course, a very happy birthday for you.
If you ask me my most successful post, then here is the one. A post that is very close to my previous tag-line: “Turning limitation into advantages”. Whatever it is, we can have a new perspective about our limitation. And here is the post I’m talking about: The five steps to win with your limitation
Now, I expanded my blog to write about my 4 perspectives in life journey. It’s the blogger, engineer, leader, and human. And it’s all about the “Happiness in success journey”, my second most-commented article.
Thanks, and wish you and all the SOBs, happiness in our success journey, as all of us are successful and outstanding bloggers.
All the best,
Robert
Happy Birthday. Best wishes for more success in the years to come. SOB is a great initiative.
One of our most successful posts has been 50 Best Firefox Extensions for power surfing.
#111
Dave Olson,
You are dear to my heart.
Hi Liz and all my friends who’ve already left their links. Happy Birthday Liz and to all the SOB’s I hope to be one of you one day.
My most popular post is definately the first post I wrote called “Who Taught My Kid That Four Letter Word “http://remarkableparents.com/who-taught-my-kid-that-four-letter-word/ and was about my 16yo and a life lesson for us both.
Happy Blog Birthday, Liz!
It is such a pleasure to know you. 🙂
Here’s my link, a good one I think for today’s times.
http://www.sunnyschlenger.com/blog/?p=329
Liz,
Halp, I didn’t link out to article, u fix. kthxs.
Hi Vicky,
That’s a great post to be sending this way as an example of success.
I’m thinking of how fast we grow. Your blog wasn’t even born when we met. It was just getting ready. Now look at you. Look at it. Send me the email nominating yourself.
Liz
Hey Liz,
Happy Blog B-day to you
Happy Blog B-day to you
Happy Blog B-day Successful Blog
Happy Blog B-day to yoooouuuuu!!!
And many mooooorrrrre…
Sorry, I’m late, got Skyped first thing this morning & have been playing catch up ever since.
I’ll be in & out for a while, but I’ll Be Baack. 😉
Hey Joe,
Great to see you in the afternoon! Remember when we used to have time to hang like that. 🙂
Busy is good. 🙂
Wow! 3 years! I’ve been peaking in on your blog since Amy Derby wrote a review of your e-book.
Congratulations on 3 years of success!!
My blog just passed it’s first year milestone. I don’t have nearly the following you have…but perhaps one day. 😉
One of my more “successful” posts was this:
http://functionalshmunctional.blogspot.com/2007/11/dont-tell-anyone.html
My readers (and my friends in real life) have the most fun when they’re laughing at my expense. It didn’t get many comments at first, but I had a re-post and it sure made a lot of new friends. 🙂
Congratulations again on your BLOGVERSARY!!
Hey Liz,
My most successful post (at least in my eyes) was about the Work at Home Mom who could have been fined $10M.
Not a lot of comments, but some of the bigger blogs picked it up and a bit of a stink was made.
Oh, and the Commonweath of PA dropped all the charges. I hope I contributed just a little to it.
Hey YOU, birthday blogett-er – OH Very Happy 3rd!!
My share today has to be the burger post.
Not because I was brilliant to post it, but because of how it showed me how VIRAL the internet can be…even if it was about McD’s
http://bestwellnessconsultant.com/2008/09/23/1996-mcdonalds-hamburger-karen-hanrahan-best-of-mother-earth.aspx
This post on it’s first day was stumbled, dugg and landed in reddit’s WTF section ending as the #4 post of the day. Commenters had a field day with it – the devotion to a burger to this day astounds me.
102,000 hits that day, a month later it reached over a half million hits in 195 countries. Over 1000 comments on that post blog, mostly icky pro-burger. Someone said that is called trolling?
Wired, boing-boing, nat’l post and a whole hosts of others picked up on it, A portugese news magazine will air an additional interview later this week, another spoke to a mcdonalds rep who said I am nothing but an urban legend
Calls from Berlin, the UK, Spain, and all over the US, and Canada. Thank goodness the folks who called were more kind than the ones who left comments.
My current daily traffic – a month later is quadrupled. How’s that for an organic non-monetized blog author ?
Happy bloggy birthday, Liz! Boy has it been a while since I’ve been here (and posting has dropped off on my own blog, too). I miss interacting with people. That’s my favorite part about blogging.
My most successful post would have to be The Color Wheel and Color Theory. It was a last minute tag onto my Real World Design series where I walked through the elements of design, specific to graphic design. I did put effort into it, but I didn’t think it was a star post. When David Airey mentioned it in his list of exceptional color resources, someone picked up the Stumble button because it was visited and Stumbled so many times that, at it’s peak (a few weeks!), it had more visits than my home page. It nearly tripled my blog’s monthly views. That was back in June and I’m still getting a pretty good amount of Stumble traffic to that post.
For me personally this post was successful because it showed me that I just have to share what I know and people will often appreciate it. I am by no means a color expert, but I wrote what I knew and illustrated it with examples and it struck a chord with many people! That’s pretty cool.
Hi Liz, Congratulations! Still thank you for calling no 61 BLOG Zichtbare Zaken a Succesful Blog. My finest bloghour? Something like this post: http://zichtbarezaken.web-log.nl/zichtbarezaken/2007/03/waar_blog_jij.html Where I asked some of my fellow bloggers: Where do you blog and oh what a response!
Best Huub!
Oh No! Liz doesn’t have a party hat? Let me fix that crisis right now http://familycrafts.about.com/library/projects/blbdballnpartyht.htm
I brought some tasty buffalo wings to the party for all to enjoy. It took me over an hour to read over the great posts submitted this morning. It was a very well spent hour in deed!
Well on my teaching blog, the most popular post by far is the evaluation post I did last May. http://lvsonline.com/online-blogging-classes/evaluate_this_class/ It still averages 200 hits a day and has by far the most comments. It is a successful post in that it brings readers to the blog and generated a lot of dialog. I certainly wouldn’t call it my most interesting post!
I think this post on preview and review will end up being successful, it is already getting some traffic http://lvsonline.com/online-blogging-classes/fear-not-the-publish-button-but-preview-and-review-first/
Thank you for the party, I am looking forward to returning this afternoon for another delightful hour of reviewing posts. I already have a list of posts for my next batch of students to read 🙂
re #113
Liz, when I told the cartoon version of you to stop slacking, she giggled and ran off to play in the moonbounce… *shrug*
re #115
Giovanna, I like the one you posted today. Food groups for the soul. 🙂
I’m late!!! Happy Blog Birthday Liz!!!
I’m offering an 80% discount on my Fast Track to Blogging Success Using Keywords to celebrate YOUR blog birthday!
If memory serves me, your blog is where I left my VERY FIRST blog comment. What a wild ride it’s been. Glad I’m still here to celebrate your third birthday with you!
Hey Lauren,
Thanks for taking time to tell your story. Colors are such a big part of my life and yours. I feel the connect through the choice already. 🙂
We’re all so busy these days, but that doesn’t mean we’re not still here for each other, you know.
Hello Liz!
Happy Birthday 🙂
I thought I’d bring a link that was on the theme of gifts. It’s about the different gifts I received when I was in Chicago in May.
What I Learned From the Gifts I Received at SobCon
Re-reading it just now made me feel quite choked. This to me is what social media is all about. The unique gift that each and every one of us brings to the party.
I’m looking forward to seeing what else is going on in this crazy comment box!
Joanna
Happy blog-birthday, Liz!! I’m glad you’re doing what you do for everyone in the social media world – and beyond!
My radical link for today is:
http://mypartofcolorado.blogspot.com/2008/10/point-to-point-b.html
It’s a reminder for us to be content with what we have.
#133,
I wish I was as brave as the cartoon me. Maybe I should meet her. 🙂
Happy Birthday, Successful Blog!
And congratulations to you, Liz. Without you, the blogging world wouldn’t be what it is. You were one of the first to make me, as with so many others, feel welcome in this world. Shards wears it’s SOB button with pride and gratitude for having earned it.
One of my favorite posts is Your Life, Your Greatest Work Of Art, something you’ve help show us all put into practice.
Thank you, and here’s to many more years of Successful Blogging.
Happy Birthday, Liz! And thank you for all of your hard work!
I’d like to share a special report with everyone.
It’s called “Meet The Press” and it will walk you through the process of writing and sending press releases (both online and offline).
Download it for free here: http://www.indiebizchicks.com/extras/meet-the-press.pdf
Again – happy birthday!
Crissy
—
Crissy Herron
Founder, http://www.IndieBizChicks.com
“For Women Who’d Rather Work For Themselves, Than Work For The Man.”
Hi Kathy!
Thanks for remembering the birthday in such a nice way. I’m delighted that you came!
Ahem. Here she is, Liz. Just in from the moonbounce: Cartoon Liz Returns
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
I’m eating cake over here in Austin, Girl.
Hi Joanna!
What you got here is a reflection of who you are. We were responding to all you already gave before you came.
Thanks for the choice of what you brought. It’s perfect!
Hi Paul!
Thank you for coming! It’s great to have you in our world around here! We do all need to remember who we are and value what we have. 🙂
Aw Rick,
You’ve been here as friend and I’m grateful for you. You made the community as much as I did. I can wait to read your post again. 🙂
#141!
Hey Amy! Glad to see that she’s doing well with her crayons. 🙂
Hi Jannie!
Here’s hoping that cake is the best you ever had!
#126,
Hi Sunny,
Getting to know you has been a great part of my 2008. I hope to always know what you’re doing. 🙂
#131
Hiya Grandy!
I met you over at Amy’s blog, did I?
Thank you for joining the party here. Finishing your first blogging year is the biggest milestone.
That post you brought looks like such a fun read.
You’re not a stranger anymore. 🙂
Woohoo the party hat and wings worked at least ;-P
My most “successful” post was a class evaluation back in May, http://lvsonline.com/online-blogging-classes/evaluate_this_class/ It still gets up to 200 hits a day and has a fair number of comments.
I don’t usually define success by the number of hits or even comments. I like to define it by the quality of content and the conversation and action that ensues. I think this post on previewing and reviewing posts, http://lvsonline.com/online-blogging-classes/fear-not-the-publish-button-but-preview-and-review-first/ will be a success. It is new but already has some dialog going.
Thanks for the party. I have a new list of “must read” posts for my students now 🙂
Hi Liz,
Happy Birthday to Successful Blog!! I brought my Paradise Unpaved visual essay link:
http://www.frankejames.com/debate/?p=98
So the great news to share about my blog is that I’m having five my visual essays (including Paradise Unpaved) published this spring! The book is called “Bothered by My Green Conscience.”
If I hadn’t created the blog it never would have happened! Thanks to you Liz for all your encouragement and support!
Franke
Hey guys,
It’s snowing here right now, and we have to finish the World Series here tonight?
I heard of the boys of October, but this is crazy… :-0
Hi Karen,
I’m sure people are astounded when you share the prop that post is about. I would definitely say that one is your most successful. Any of us would have a hard time coming up with something nearly so strong!
Congratulations on a winner!
In Toronto it’s a blustery Winnie-the-Pooh kind of day.
#135 Hi Huub!
What a creative idea for a great blog post. I’m sure your community paid off with some answers worth talking about. Can’t wait to read it.
Thank you for this gift that already has me smiling just imagining what it’s about.
Happy Birthday Liz. and SOB
I’m heading over with a great bottle of Aussie Red to share and we’ll throw a few prawns on the barbie before we get clarity about where we are heading
My link was inspired by you and is about to become a free article
Getting Clear to get Clarity
Celebrate well and give yourself a big pat on the back for all the wonderful good you do for all of us bloggers and now to go and walk on the beach and listen to the sea
Have a wonderful day
Suzie
Attract Abundance Today
#136
Bean!
You’re finally out and where everyone can see all that you brought! Sorry I left you stuck!
I’m grateful for your patience and your enthusiasm. We need more teachers and guides like you in the world.
You’re welcome here anytime. 🙂
#144
Hi Crissy,
That’s a nice thing to bring for a bunch of bloggers. I’m sure they’ll find it a gift they want to read and make use of. How thought to choose something every blogger needs to know.
Welcome and stay for a while if you can. 🙂
Hi Bean,
I think we’re tracking on the money now! Looks like you’ve got something good going on. Glad you’re finding so many useful things to share.
Hi Franke!
Congratulations on your publications! That’s the best news! I remember when you were wonder whether to move on it or now. I’m thrilled for you!
Wow! Joe!
Snow!
Say it ain’t so!
Ah Suzie,
Have a wonderful walk on the beach and think of all of us. Raise your glass and smile with your abundant thoughts. I’m sending you my love.
It’s true Liz, the prop for my workshops serves me very well and usually horrifies… I can’t imagine having another post that would have that much traffic! Today’s/Tonight’s a work night and usually can’t make open mic night. I hope you are enjoying this terrific day!! Sure are alot of great folks here.
Hi Liz and the rest of the community! I’m just heading home here and thought I’d drop off a couple cases of Fat Tire and my very own special “hot wings”. I hope you all enjoy them!
Have a great evening!
Hi Karen!
It’s great to see everyone and to share in their moments of success. Yeah. I would say that makes things pretty special. 🙂
Liz, knit-bloggers know how to party, too … but my birthday posts never draw THIS kind of crowd. It’s what makes you a star! I hope you’re enjoying your party!
happy birthday.
As usual, Chris B captures it very well, better than I could for today, anyway.
http://tinyurl.com/lizbirthday
🙂
Hey Liz! Happy birthday to you! How exciting. 🙂
I wanted to let you know that I am starting my second annual Reader Appreciation Month coming up in November. I’m really excited about what I learn as a result of polling my readers and asking them for their thoughts and ideas.
This year, I’m asking them to share their top 10 things they wish they knew as a first year teacher. Thanks for your inspiration and reminders to always keep the readers in the forefront of my mind when I come up with topics conversation!
http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/get-ready-for-reader-appreciation-month-2008/
–Deb!
Thanks, but you know every great community like yours, like mine, is counted by ones. 🙂
Hi Jon!
Don’t you dare go down playin’ your value. Your words have made worth millions good feelings . . . I happen to know.
Hi Joel,
Congratulations on your second annual Reader Appreciation Month this November. It’s a great idea and exciting for so many reasons. Teachers “get” community.
Thanks for bringing that thought over today. I’m smiling about it.
Hey Liz,
Rich and warm Kudos to you. I’d like to share this post because I have my own little community building experiment going on right now. I’m going to invite my party guests over to crash your party!
http://www.delightfulwork.com/2008/10/21/leveraging-community/
Hi Tom!
Thanks for the kudos and warm welcomes to you!
What fun it would be to have your friends join us!
You’re a delight. I can’t wait to read the post you brought.
Happy Blog Birthday Liz. I hope your going to have one of those icecreams with root beer. Three years is fab. I’m not a SOB yet as I wasn’t sure if my blog was worthy of being on the list. I still struggle with getting it right sometimes. But I will apply eventually.
Hey Liz
Look at all the people who came and still coming. Can you feel it, so much love from all of us to you. 🙂
Giovanna Garcia
Happy Birthday!
My favorite link is one of the first posts I wrote on my blog about my own set of leadership principles. It’s some basic, earthy, and fun perspectives on things that I’ve found to be very effective leadership tips. The link is http://thoughtleadersllc.blogspot.com/2007/12/leadership-principles-overview.html.
Again, happy birthday and congratulations on such a wonderful milestone! Maybe one day I’ll be an SOB in your context rather than just in the traditional context 😉
Happy Blirthday!
I’m sitting here, a mere one month old, looking excitedly up at my peer(s), who is 3, and saying to myself…I wish I was 3….
Not really. I’m having a blast as I’m sure you are as well. It is very inspiring to see such closeness and support here. I’m going to have to come back for a visit.
Thanks!
-Scott
PS. You can say a big ol’ thanks to Dr. Bob!
Gosh, Liz, I’m a new friend, but couldn’t miss the chance to say you don’t look a day over 2.5!
Oh, and congrats on being named one of the 50 most Influential Powerful women in Social Media by Ron Hudson over at Immediate Influence Blog. Must be a nice b-day present!
There are so many interesting things about marriage but two of my favorite (and perhaps my best) posts are about renewable marriages and whether you can you can describe your relationship in a six word sentence.
I’m the curious sort who likes to look under the rug (metaphorically speaking).
Many happy posts!
Dina
Hi Liz! Happy birthday to your blog! I was really inspired by you to start blogging last year and now I am one of the most popular bloggers in Bulgaria.
I would like to point to a post in my management blog called “Who does money really motivate?”. There I proposed a “theory” that there are people who seek tranquility and security and who cannot be motivated by money to work more or better. So if you works with such people you have to find another way to motivate them.
It is not quite “genius” discovery but it is just my contribution to the management of humans. The post became one of my most popular posts and I am proud of that.
well, HELLO everyone! look at all these people! and the balloons and the party hats and the BAND! where did you get that band, liz? and i LOVE your dress. you look even better than last time i saw you, how do you do that?
Happy Birthday! We cannot tell you how honored we are to have an SOB badge. You do amazing things over here and its a joy to read your posts while also learning the art of conversation.
One of our most popular shows on Bigg Success this year has been “Why Work Life Balance Doesn’t Work.” We did this topic because we really struggle with balance, which tends to tilt more on the work side! This show offers an alternative to trying to balance it all.
http://biggsuccess.com/2008/05/31/work-life-balance-doesnt-work/
Hi Liz!
Thanks so much for your blog, your friendship, your guidance and of course SOBCon; you know how much they have all meant to me these last few years.
One of my most popular posts on Family Travel is High above Paris: a meal in the Eiffel Tower.
What’s ironic is that we had no idea that there were restaurants in the Eiffel Tower when we visited. We were wandering around admiring the view, the kids announced that they were hungry (of course!) and we walked past the entrance to a Tower restaurant and saw that there was no wait.
Some of my best travel experiences have been because I plan the hell out of most of my trips, and some of my best experiences are also because I’m willing to chuck plans out of the window and grab serendipity.
Kinda like life, isn’t it?
Happy birthday, Successful Blog….
I’m seeing a lot of new faces around here tonight, so I would like to offer everyone a Klondike bar.
We can’t have a birthday party for Successful Blog without Klondikes! 🙂
Dig In!
#180
Hi Cath,
Here’s your rootbeer with ice cream. You are so successful and outstanding that I thought you were already on the list. OMG! Email me if you don’t see yourself there in the next week or so. What have I been doing?
Thanks for coming. I’m thrilled to see you here!
Here Giovanna, have a another root beer!
#188
Hi isabella,
Yeah, the beauty is that with a click we don’t have to stay anywhere. So when we do we’re likely to participate if the atmosphere and the conversation is just the right amount of friendly and intriguing.
Sounds like you had both and some lasting connections were made. I remember when you were first on the blog. This is a special thing to hear about. 🙂
Hey Sheila,
Open comment night and the story of SOBCon wouldn’t be complete with out a mention of you. You are a long-distance neighbor, a friend, and someone to care about. Can’t lose track of where you or what you’re doing.
Kinda like friends huh?
Hey Joe,
Thanks for the Klondike bars!
How’s the snow?
Hi Liz, Happy 3rd birthday for the Successful blog. Have been enjoying your posts and abilities to get people to communicate for the past year or so and have learn and laughed a lot.
I’m including my first ever post called In the Beginning that I wrote Halloween night just two years ago. I’ve included it because it was the start of an amazing journey for me – a discovery that I am not only capable of writing but that I can also get paid to write. And along the way, I’ve discovered numerous people around the world, such as yourself, who are supportive, encouraging, fun, and who I now consider my ‘cyberfriends’…
thank you and here’s to many, many more Successful blog birthday parties…
Happy Blog Birthday! Saw it on twitter and had to congratulate you on all your success!
Here’s a link to my Blog Action Day Post: Poverty in America. It’s #3 on my most viewed posts, but it holds a lot more meaning than that. Poverty is a very close subject for me (as you’ll see when you read it) and it’s a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time.
http://freedomwriting.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/poverty-in-america/
Again, thanks for all you do in the blogging community Liz, see you around Twitter!
Kimberlee
Did someone say Klondike Bar? I’m drooling over my keyboard now.
I have 2 favorite posts on my blog:
http://www.cewbit.com/blog/life/i-am-not-marie-osmond/
and
http://www.cewbit.com/blog/daisies/loves-me-loves-me-not/
I’m a newbie at this blogging thing and enjoying it immensely.
Carol
😉
#182
Hi Mike!
It was to meet you on Twitter and now here. I like the post you’re referring to that Mike wrote. I also have an affinity for your blog.
Thanks for coming and leaving a post. 🙂
#183
Hey Scott,
Welcome,
If you hang here, you’ll a wealth of incredible and intelligent people who like to help. Every one of us were you earlier.
Thanks for coming and thank to Dr. Bob!
Liz, it stopped snowing, but the winds feels like I’m back in Chicago in May! 😉
#184,
Hey Dina!
Great to meet you! I’ve found some great blogs on that list too. It’s a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for bringing some of your best to share with everyone.
You’re not a stranger anymore!
#185
Hi Mike!
I think it is genius to understand and keep hold of the idea that people are people with their own motivations. I’m thrilled to hear that your blog is doing so well. Keep the lines open you’re making a difference.
I was sure you would. 🙂
#186
Isabella,
I could ask you the same thing . . . you’ve never had a bad hair day in your life. 🙂
Happy Birthday Liz! You don’t look a day over 2 and a half.
HI Mary-Lynn & George
I should have guess that post would be your BIGG success. You could almost say, it might have changed your life. I thank the day that a certain friend send you my way. I feel a special connection to you both. 🙂
Hey Kiwiwriter,
Thank you for that comment. You say so much, so well, in so few words. It doesn’t surprise me at all that you’re paid to write.
I’m proud that you include me as one of your cyberfriends. Thank you.
Hi Kimberlee,
Thank you for coming over to share yourself and what means something special to you.
You bet you’ll be seeing me. 😉
#199
Carol,
In some ways, we’re all newbies. Some of us have just put down a few more blog posts than others. You’ll catch up in no time . . . I can you know. 😉
liz, you’re so sweet. and someone gave you a badge for being among the 50 most influential bloggers? great! but you know, i would put you among the FIVE most influential bloggers! and all that in three years. amazing.
listen, since you invited me over on alphablogs, too (it’s another site where i blog), i was wondering if it’s ok if i mention a post from there, too?
it’s one of our canada 9-5 posts, where we showcase canadians who use blogs to talk about their work and public engagement. this one has a focus on creatives (yup, there is even an accountant!)
this has been great, i met a whole bunch of interesting people, and already made a new twitter friend through you.
happy birthday to your blog once again, liz. you are absofrigginlutely awesome!
Joe,
If you’ve had snow, it could be a warmer wind than Chicago in May is. 🙂
Happy birthday, Liz! You are the premier relationship-builder blogger on the Internet as is evidenced by all your blogging friends celebrating with you today.
I was so excited when you recognized me as an SOB blogger, and I’m still as proud of that recognition today as when I received it a year and a half ago.
My most successful post was How to Write an Interview-Winning Resume. It has produced far more traffic than any other post on my blog as well as the among the highest number of comments. All I can figure is that a lot of people are looking for jobs!
And here’s one more link just for fun: a page of free stories for your reading pleasure.
Wishing you many more years of brightening lives on the Internet. Liz!
Happy Birthday! I’m late to the party I know…but just finished feeding the kids and now getting ready for bath time. Here’s a link http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2008/10/22/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-seo-part-4/
It’s about my SEO experiences. I hope it’s success helps other people avoid the same mistakes I’ve made and helps them to make better choices for thier business.
Liz,
Great party! Met Isabella here and now we’re connected on twitter and she’s started reading my blog. Lotsa fun. Thanks for creating a forum that enables others to connect with new and interesting people. You have some wonderful readers. If Nike gets into creating blog themes, maybe their tag line could be “Be Like Liz!”
Hi Liz, Again, Happy, Happy Birthday! My most successful post, or at least the one I’m especially proud of right now, is http://tinyurl.com/6j89hj. It was the most research I’ve ever put into a post in 550+ tries, and maybe one of my most helpful. It also spawned some good conversation on English grammar and usage, which was a pleasant surprise.
Thanks Liz,
Beach was wonderful, sent you and all the SOB’s abundant thoughts across the horizon,
enjoy the rest of your day.
Attracting Abundance
Sorry I am late to the party! Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Bllllooogggggggg…. Happy birthday to you.
Not easy keeping a blog going for that length of time. My congratulations to you.
That’s probably true, but the friends I met in Chitown make it nice and warm. Friendship keeps one cozy you know. 🙂
Hello Guys.
I was just invited by Joe there and wish the blog a happy birthday and every success in the future. I am just starting out in business so I hope to learn new things from you guys in the future. From blogging etc…..
Geoffrey!
Hi Aruni!
I was just thinking of your first email. You caught me that day. Wow! Now you’re so busy and doing so well!
Yeah! Thanks for taking a minute to drop off some of your wisdom. Everyone who reads will be glad you did.
this is great. i’ve already met someone new – mike – and went over to his site. very interesting article!
a post from my blog that i’d like to share is how to deal with the swear jar what i like about this post is that it shows social media at its best. i put out the question about what to do with the money in our swear jar. it was great to hear different ideas and points of view, things i had never thought about. the people who answered were other bloggers, people from twitter – and all of this also turned into an offline conversation.
Also guys if you would all kindly take a look at my page and leave comments in my guest page on what you think of my site and if there is any improvments I could make.
Kind Regards
Geoffrey
http://www.faultydesktop.com
Hi Mike!
I’m delighted that you found Isabella and she found you. I can see why you’d get along. 🙂
I think this is a fab idea! Its the first time I have ever attended one of these birthday blog things!!!
#205
Hey Tim!
I thought I saw you sneak in! Thanks for the wishes! Are you bringing something to add to the list?
Happy 3rd Birthday Successful Blog!
I’ll share my most popular piece of whimsical art these days as my link.
It is called the Sassy Sea Urchin and can be seen here on my blog.
And I’ll be right back… need to go get a drink.
How are you these days Liz? =]
Liz and everyone, let me introduce you to a new online friend I met on CrossLoop.
Jeff, meet Liz and everyone, Liz, everyone, meet Jeff.
He’s not a blogger yet, but I think he will be after meeting you guys. 😉
Isabella,
Of course, I want that alphablogs post. 🙂
Yes Joe! I am here to learn new things! I am into all aspects of computing repair and maintainance etc but want to learn how to get out there on the net and market etc. I currently have just made my first website http://www.faultydesktop.com and want to expand it more so if anyone has ideas please do not hesiate to email me at mail@faultydesktop.com
So anyway Joe has reccomneded blogging etc so Liz its a pleasure you letting me attend this and I am gifted to be here. I congraduate you on you success in blogging etc. I do not know much about you but I hope to get a one to one chat with you at some point in due course and maybe you could give me a few pointers etc.
Kind Regards
Liz – you might want to remind people (if it hasn’t come up yet) that Age of Conversation 2 launches tomorrow.
http://www.ageofconversation.com – all proceeds go to Children’s Charities.
Where else other than here can you get 237 bloggers talking all at once in one place?
#212
Lillie,
What’s fun about a day like this is — when folks get to be SOBs, we’ve usually just met. Then when a party comes, we got some history. It’s the history that makes relationships.
Thank you for coming and sharing this.
Hi Brad,
Glad you see you here. You’re elder statesman of the SOB list. I love knowing that you’re still having success. 🙂
#216
Thank you, Suzie!
Liz, just curious, did you get to take a nap today? You know, to get your second wind?
#218
Hi Michael,
thank you!
#222
Thanks Geoffrey Moffett
Nice to meet you!
You should get to know the folks here. We’re good people. 🙂
Hey Liz,
Happy birthday! Your voice is clear and consistent — that’s a huge part of your success. As you and I have discussed before, you can’t fake it long term. People will see the real deal sooner rather than later!
The fact that you’ve had 200+ comments today says that people have experienced the real you. Thanks for sharing yourself with all of us.
Speaking of sharing…I’ve just added a freebies page to my blog, where people can find the various e-books, tools, tip sheets etc. that I’ve done over the past couple years. I’m happy to share the page and the resources with your readers.
http://www.drewsmarketingminute.com/free-stuff.html
Happy birthday!
Drew
#226
Jessica!
I can see why it’s popular. I sure love the way you use light and color. 🙂
My Most successful post is a post I wrote a little more than a week ago. It’s How to Be Incredible.
I’m not defining success by money or unique visits, but merely because these 15 ways to be incredible are how I live my life on a daily basis.
Here’s the link:
http://prevential.com/how-to-be-incredible/
Tim,
I think you just told them that
the AGE of CONVERSATION 2 is on sale tomorrow.
http://www.ageofconversation.com
but just in case, I did too.
Happy 3rd birthday! Actually, I’m being just a little cheeky, since I am 5 minutes in to tomorrow, but that’s the joys of living in England – where I am currently watching the snow falling at five minutes past midnight (for anyone missing London, here is a picture I took of St. Paul’s in London at Night)
If we could have predicted the current events three years ago, we’d be pretty successful wouldn’t we? I’ve been thinking about how social media can help us predict the future, and reflecting on the joy of having a successful blog: “You can predict the future too”.
Keep on blogging to good stuff!
Thanks Liz!
Hey Joe,
Not really. No nap today. 🙂
Liz and Guys I am really sorry but I have to head on to bed here as I live in Northern Ireland and it is 00.16. Liz I hope you get in contact with me as my mail is at the top somewhere.
Guys hope to catch yous all around soon!
Take Care
God Bless
#237
Hey Drew,
The real deal, you would know about that. I don’t many who can even come close to you. Thank you for all you’ve contributed to what I try, to what you do, to what the blogosphere is and what we’ll all become in the coming years.
I’m still going to do something with that publication. I mean it. 🙂
Hey Liz
I made this for you!
http://tinyurl.com/6epgww
Giovanna
#239,
Hi Derek!
You are incredible already. Thanks for bringing that so that we all have a shot. 🙂
Benjamin,
It hasn’t been a year yet since we had breakfast with Ann on Earl’s Court Road. Amazing how a breakfast and blog and suddenly it seems I know you.
That’s some photo!
Good night Geoff!
y’all are having too much fun 🙂
Where is Joe with his poem? I’m ready for bed. LOL
#246
Holy Wow! You are something special.
Thank you. 🙂
Hey Amy,
How many appts did you have today? Didn’t they know you had other priorities here?
This for Amy…
Oh, no please don’t go
Just arrived from the snow (it was snowing in Philly earlier)
Stay a while with your friends
On all of which you can depend.
This post about Esteem and social media has proven to be one of my post popular posts.
Thanks Liz and congrats to all!
Jessica Doyle – hey there! Fancy meeting you here! 🙂
Wow, Amy,
Look at that.
Nice work Joe!
Hi Mark,
Thanks for coming!
I remember that post. It’s no surprise it was popular. I bet it will continue to be so. It also is one that I personally liked a lot.
Thanks Joe. You rock. Sorry about your snow. Please don’t send it to Chicago eh? 🙂
Liz, two downtown plus coffee with an old friend. Was home for an hour. Then dr out my way. Now I’m grocery shopping.I have new rule after today : no more waking before dawn 🙂
How are you still up?? And still so nice?!?!
Amy! You’re just now going to bed? Geez… it really is like marriage… they just put on their flannels and go to bed early.
Next thing you know, it’ll be separate blogs. 🙂
Hi Liz and happy birthday. I finally got the timings right and managed to be here. 11.50am here in Australia
Hi Tim!! I usually go to bed at 3am. Or 4. 🙂
How are ya?
Please excuse the 30min iPhone delay. LOL
Tim and Amy get blog counseling.
@Liz – LOL
SueBlimey!
How are you! Thanks for coming to the party!
Have you a post to share for the list of successful post we’re building?
Happy Birthday Liz! (you knew I wouldn’t forget!)
I wish I could have visited the party more today, but that darn day job keeps getting in the way. 🙁
Nonetheless, I really look forward to our Chicago meetup on November 10 (hint hint to everyone in the Chicago area – join us!), and all my very best to you, my dear friend.
Oh, and here is my most viewed post (thank you Brian Clark):
http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2007/05/24/slaying-the-posting-dragon-or-how-i-deal-with-writers-block/
Terry
I got sidetracked reading some of the successful posts here! My most popular posts as far as hits and comments tend to be the ones that are more general, rather than blogging specific so they are not necessarily the ones I prefer myself. One that was very popular and I enjoyed researching and writing myself was:
http://www.sueblimely.com/best-sites-for-good-free-stock-images/
Woohoo. Got my laptop back. Best thing about not driving? I can type while someone else drives. 🙂
Wow Liz, I just scrolled through and saw all these cool links. I’m always looking for stuff to read during my late night insomnia moments, so this will be a lot of fun!!
Terry, I hope I’m still on your list of folks to notify about your meetup. I did watch Field of Dreams on your recommendation, btw. 🙂
Hey Terry,
Bout time you showed up. 😉
If I knew we were looking for most viewed or most commented, I would have probably picked one of my old entries to one of the Problogger writing projects.
I thought we were talking about successful, like, as in, accomplishing something for the betterment of (wo)mankind. 🙂 See #132
Hope you do not mind me submitting two but I was excited by some news I had yesterday which makes all the effort worthwhile. I recently created a site with a blog and a forum for the Fragile X Association of Australia. A women in UK has been visiting the site and her son in Australia decided to raise money for the Association via a triathlon he is doing.
http://www.fragilex.org.au/2008/andrew-moy-our-everyday-hero/
Hey Terry!
Thanks for coming! I know you’ve got a lot going on! It’s always hard to fit in another party. 🙂
Somehow you manage. Can’t wait to see you!
Howdy and Happy Birthday Successful and Outstanding Liz!
What an amazing collection of presents there are! I’ve been unwrapping, opening and reading them and having such fun!
I brought this link to share:
http://www.wellnesscoach.com/coping-with-change-and-transition-whats-an-entepreneur-to-do-8.html
My blog just passed its 1-year anniversary and what makes this post the one I choose has nothing to do with the number of comments or readers…I chose it because it was my first post and is a symbol of me stepping out into the blog world, which in itself was a success…and it turns out it is about change and transition which seems relevant right now.
Thanks for inviting me to the party. I’m late, but sticking around now. I’ll just head to the sidebar to get Klondikes and cake:)
Amy,
I’m so glad you have your laptop back . . . for obvious reasons. 🙂
Sueblimey,
Success is however we want to measure it. I’m glad you chose one you liked making. Those are the ones I like to read the most.
Hi Erica,
Ever since I recently read your book again. I keep picturing a leaf whenever I see your name around here. Now that it’s fall, it’s especially so. What a lovely thing to remember you by. 🙂
@Jonathan if you are still here at the party, just want to thank you for sharing the sun…no wonder you chose this one.
Happy Birthday Liz and blog!…I would love to get on an chat, but #1 I don’t seem to know how and #2 I am deep into editing my post for tomorrow which is way to long and about my life with cancer and fear…rather hard to switch gears I am afraid.
Thank you for your great comments and replies
Hi Liz, and now I will think of you when I see them too. This year, those on our Chinese Tallow tree are especially brilliant – perhaps those should be the Liz leaves, if that isn’t too mushy:)
Patricia,
You’re already here. 🙂
Happy birthday Successful Blog! You’re looking wonderful today…you haven’t aged a bit! Oh, is that popcorn? Thanks!! I love popcorn. Don’t mind if I do! A Klondike would be just perfect later.
I brought a post to share. My older twins played football for the first time this year and it definitely had an impact on them.
http://www.earnestparenting.com/2008/10/18/thanks-coach/
Liz, thanks for everything you do around here. You are much appreciated and your guidance and leadership is priceless. Happy birthday!!
Hi Amy!
How nice of you to drop in for the party. You’ve perked things up just by being here. Thanks!
Popcorn tastes even better WITH the Klondike bar.
Did someone say popcorn? 🙂
Lots of popcorn for you, Amy
Liz, I combed through the posts and maybe I missed it…did you share your favorite post from your blog???
Yay popcorn! *fishes some out of her sweater*
Yeah Liz! What’s YOUR favorite post from your own blog. 🙂
Gosh, Erica,
I can’t even imagine! I was just trying to think of what to write about tomorrow. 🙂
ahhh. a post by Liz about the ever evasive “tomorrow”. I can just see it now:)
G’nite Liz, Amy, and whoever else is still around. I’m off to eat yummy leftovers of home made stew with butternut squash. See you all soon. Thanks for the party favors:)
Erica,
You know you just answered my question. 🙂
Hey Birthday Girl 🙂
Just got out of the meeting. Stopping by to see what you all doing 🙂
Giovanna
All is well in the world of Successful blog. Thanks for asking. 🙂
Looks like the party is winding down. 🙂 Loved the popcorn, on to chocolate! Sweet is always good after salty, no? 🙂
Hi Amy,
Personally I like them together.
🙂
zzzzzzzzzzz
oh wait…
there’s icecream!
Hi Liz,
Been in meetings all day and working like crazy. Wanted to stop by, though, and wish you and Successful Blog a wonderful, happy birthday.
Just think how much you have changed the world one conversation at a time. All of us have that to thank you for. What a great perspective.
All the best and all success to you!
Hi Scot,
Thank you for finding the time to come here. We’re all so exhausted and involved it’s amazing we can talk. Thank you for every minute.
Because for every minute I gave I got lots of yours. 🙂
Amy
Ice cream
and
hot fudge!
Everyone brought a present tonight
Links, successful to everyones delight
The good will and best wishes did flow
You could see Liz’s face was all aglow
New friends and old gathered tonight
To thank Liz for a friendship so tight
We all hope that there are many more years
Of Blogs Successful, Liz leading, smiling, no tears.
Burma Shave
Nite Liz
Nite All
Your chocolate is lost on me, lovely one. But that’s good for you, because you can have my share. 🙂
(Night Joe. Nice poem!)
Dang! Missed another one!
My eyes are so heavy but I don’t want to leave! Amy, ice cream? Yummy! Is it soy? Tell me it’s soy, yay! Liz, you throw one heck of a party. Great guests, food, and music. Can I call in sick tomorrow? 🙂
Karen, if you can serve no calorie cheesecake then you can have icecream that isn’t soy (ew). 🙂
“Puffs to catch breath” – Whew! Just made it.
Happy Birthday Successful Blog and Hip Hip Hooray for Liz!
Thanks for your relentless (in a nice way :)) support for all of us SOBs and those whose moment is yet to come.
My link – to SOB Thinking Home Business – is for the post 5 Ways Twitter Helps Me in Business http://tinyurl.com/5twitpoints – judging by the comments, some people have found it helpful.
Des
Liz, no need to tell you how much of a help you’ve been. Of all the “new media” choices I faced, one of the reasons I went with a blog as a backbone to my “media empire” is your support and encouragement. I already find myself pitching in when a question is asked on Twitter about ⦠well, darn near anything. Can’t help but pass on the helpfulness. This being about the third week of DutchNewYork, I realize I’m impatient for results. I can picture you telling me how on-track I actually am. (I am on track, right?)
Liz
Are there still any Ice cream
and hot fudge!
Giovanna
Hello!
Happy birthday and pleased to meet everyone!
My blog is The Bon Bon Life and one of my favorite posts is about Twitter and how awesome it is for small business relationship building:
http://thebonbonlife.com/social-media-marketing/twitter-cool-microblogging-small-business-edition/
Happy to be part of the celebration here!
Happy Birthday Liz!
Although I seem to remember you liveblogging the first showing of the “Great Pumpkin”, which seems a bit more than three years ago…
Mike
do I just stay on the comments section and keep flipping back to my email to read what comes in next? is that how I am here?
I love popcorn and klondike bars yum too bad I am already in my pjs
I raise my glass in happy birthday toast to Liz and the SOB’s!
So many terrific links in today’s list! My own contribution is the Checklist for starting your first business: http://www.smallbizsurvival.com/2008/03/checklists-for-starting-your-first.html
or http://is.gd/2ff
It was a collaboration. My friend Chris asked me some questions about starting a business. When I deluged him with information, he finally asked, “Is there a checklist for all this?” That’s where it started, and it has kicked off a whole series of great things for me.
Whew! Made it back to the party in time for the desserts 🙂
Its great to see the blogging community come together like this. You have been a great catalyst Liz. Kudos to you for starting SOB as a resource, support and source of inspiration
I am heading off Liz to do some work I can’t put off any longer. Thank you for today. I have enjoyed reading many excellent posts. Bye all.
Goodnight birthday girl and lizfans. Thanks Liz for inviting us to the party and for all the lovely things you do. 🙂
Good night, Joe
Sleepy Swell.
Thanks Des,
You know you would never have been too late. You’re always welcome 🙂
Rick
Of course you’re on track. Don’t you know someone — some one of us — would come along, and well, let you know if you were messing up. I’m delighted that you feel like passing it on.
Mike,
It’s a present indeed to see your Great Pumpkin faces bringing a caper onto this blog. Thank you. 🙂
Patricia,
Just type a comment, and hit refresh — f5 on your keyboard. Then you’ll see who’s typed anything since. 🙂
Liz, I wasn’t selling myself short. I know, by now, thanks in part to you, that I have plenty of words, some of which are helpful and inspiring. However, there are days when the point isn’t the words. It’s the lives and hugs and smiles and greetings. It is the relationships.
I was writing about age of conversation 2 tonight and realizing now much that list overlaps with your SOB list. Many of us have met here, or through here, and now there, and still are rooted well in our communities.
So happy birthday. And thanks. And I hope it’s okay to comment twice. (and of course, I know it is).
Hi Christine!
Welcome and thanks for coming! I’m delighted to share this birthday with you!
Becky!
You’ve added so much to so many Tuesdays on this blog. I hardly know how to thank you. Is there a checklist for that?
Bean,
I feel like I’ve gotten to know you through this whole adventure. Thanks for your joy and your patience today. 🙂
Good night, Sueblimey
Thanks for coming!
So long Amy!
You’ve been a great friend all day!
Jon,
You are authenticity.
You shine with love.
WOW! Still going strong…I was just reading through the comments… Happy Blog Bday Liz!
Sorry I’m so late–almost missed the party. Terrible internet connectivity problems.
Congratulations on your third birthday. I send balloons, I’m wearing a party hat, anticipate a bite of cake, and I have a wonderful present for you.
–
A few weeks ago, on my blog, I posed this question: Should children be forced to take piano lessons? Prompting the post was my grandson Nathaniel who is exceptionally musically talented, but who was dragging his heels at studying the piano. I received many interesting comments, but one in particular has seemingly changed Nathaniel’s overall view of his talent and the work that is before him.
A stranger named Rob of Gallup wrote extensively and inspirationally of the significance of such a musical gift. Rob’s passion for music, his excellent writing, his concern for an eleven-year-old boy who he did not know, and who he probably will never meet touched me deeply, as I believe it did all who read the exchange. Nathaniel’s computer has been down, and although at once I read Rob’s stunning message over the phone to his mother, Rebecca, it was weeks before she could sit with Nathaniel and read Rob’s words on the computer screen. Now the computer is repaired, and yesterday, on my blog, Rebecca communicated with Rob. Today Rob responded.
My present: I’m sending a link to my original post, where among the comments are Rob’s stirring words. A second present is here: Crestline Happenings
Thankful and gracious words from Rebecca to Rob, and Rob’s beautiful
message he sent only today. Their comments begin around comment 9, I
believe.
It’s a troubled and ugly world in which we live, we all know that. During such days, it is especially beautiful and encouraging to stumble across someone with such a magnificent spirit as has Rob from Gallup, whom I have never met, and whose face I probably will never see. He, though, is my present to you.
Sincerely, Liz, I wish you well, and many happy birthdays.
Shirley Buxton
Shirley,
Thank you! That’s a most amazing story and a wonderful gift. How hard it must have been to be fighting your computer to bring it over.
You’re a gift yourself.
Thanks Carter!
It’s been a long, lovely day!
Happy Birthday!
Stats said my top post was Sunday Snippets 2008-03-30 so I checked out, and discovered why it was so popular. It has a bunch of hilarious quotes from friends and family.
I had completely forgotten about the post and with the boring title I am surprised it did as well as it did. Thanks for tricking me into going back and discovering it.
Speaking of birthdays, my last comment was number 329 which happens to be *my* birthday. Cool!
Always wish you the best my friend! 😉
Oh yeah, Dr. Bob sent me.
Hey, am I the lucky Martin at comment #43 – WooHoo 🙂
It’s my pleasure to accept your prize.
DING! Thank You!
DING! Appropriate book, like attracts like
DING! Now Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie 🙂
Hi Luke!
Sorry I deleted two duplicate comments so you’re not on your birthday, but you were and I know that. 🙂
Thank you for coming any friend of my Stetson wearing friend, Dr. Bob has to be the best kind of friend to welcome here.
I’m delighted you joined us and even more excited that you brought your family stories in the form of that link. 🙂
Hi Mike!
I hope this means we’ll be more connected again. Many of us have been missing you — me in particular, especially when I put together this blog post.
Hi Liz,
Happy belated 3rd! I left a comment yesterday that seems to have vanished into the blogosphere. 😉 I wanted to include a post of a poem I wrote about self/talk and gardening: http://jennymannion.com/healpain/2008/07/weeding-my-thoughts-to-plant-new-seeds/
It was the first time I shared a poem of such a personal nature on my blog and I was very grateful for the response I received.
I am so happy for your success — this blog inspires so many (me included) and has a group atmosphere like no others I know. Thank you for your example and passion. I am so excited to check out the SOB blogs and will bookmark the list so I can return again and again!
Thanks Liz for all you do!
Gratefully,
Jenny
hey Liz Happy Happy Day. The blogsphere was never the same after you! and if it wasn’t for this blog there wouldn’t be SOBCon and open mike night and an excuse to eat Klondike bars. Way to go Liz!
One of my favorites blog posts was a podcast with Dawud, and because I love it, that makes it successful:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/LiveyourPurpose/2008/03/07/Conscious-Business-with-Dawud-Miracle
Hey Liz – happy — HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Congratulations on all of your well deserved success. 🙂
My most popular post to date, which is fitting for the occasion, was written a couple of days before my 40th birthday:
“39 Things I Have Learned As I Prepare to Turn 40” – http://tinyurl.com/5ffasb
Hi Liz, thanks for naming me an SOB and happy birthday!! I can’t think of a specific post that was “successful”, but I’m happy to be here nonetheless!
Hi Liz- I’m so glad the party’s still going…it took me a long time to get here, but reading all the others gifts has been too fun to pass up.
May I chime in with my most-significant-to-me post: www. AuthenticOrganizations.com. “Obamas Website Made Me Cry” … it was the first post that I felt confident enough about to send out to all of my professional friends. Hope you like it.
Happy, happy birthday! cvh
Liz, I’m a day late, but you are one of the people who encouraged me when I began to blog. That’s so important to a newbie. Since that time, I have passed that encouragement on to many. Thanks for all you do. Happy 3!
I’m a day late as well but just wanted to say thanks for all the encouragement and for making me an SOB. It’s good that there are people like you.
Happy B-Day!
Hi Jenny,
I’ve been a gardener too.
It’s a lot like blogging. 🙂
Thank for remembering this occasion that way. 🙂
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for that compliment. I hope I can live up to it. You all do so much that’s worthy and meaningful. Someone has to notice. 🙂
Congratulations, Mark!
On your 40th birthday and the 39 things you learned. May they stay with you. 🙂
Thank you for sharing them with us. 🙂
Hi Danielle!
Welcome and thank you for coming to wish us all a happy birthday. Enjoy!
Thanks, CV,
Glad you got a chance to come over!
Hope you enjoy all of the things you read! 🙂
Robyn!
Whatever I sent your way, you sent this way hundredfold. Believe me, I know. Thank you for everything, friend.
Scott,
How lovely to find you and your marbles this year. . . . I really mean that. 🙂
I missed the Party!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁
I am so sad….:(:(:(
Lizzie, you are the epitome of creative community building that has enabled many bridges of hope to be build. Hope that some day we can communicate a message as well as you. Thank you for highlighting blackinbusiness during this historic time in our history, A Blackman running for President at the same time as A White woman. Either way history will be difined by a change in the glass barrier at the top. In Feb, I felt Obama was to be our next president, here is a link to this post, http://www.blackinbusiness.org/2008/02/13/it-is-over-not-only-will-obama-be-the-democrat-choice-he-will-be-our-next-president/
Hi Debo!
You’re here now. Thank you! 🙂
Hi Jim,
Thank you. You’re an inspiration in your field. I hold you high.
Thank you for every minute we’ve had together and all that we will. You understand the power of connecting with head and heart together to make things have meaning. 🙂
Wow what a blog party! So happy to participate as a blog. I know how many comments there are on here because they all arrived in my mailbox via feed!
Some great new blogs to discover too.
All the very best Liz and here’s to 30 years of blogging!
Donna Jackson
Happy Birthday, Liz! I’ve been so busy at nights – have been missing “Open Mic” night… But when I realized that you’ve been doing this for 3 years, I just had to drop by and say, “congrats!”