You’ve been busy setting up a new home, but don’t worry. You left us a chance to go back and read our favorites again. I remember the ones I read way back when, before I knew you as I do. I especially liked this one.
Didn’t realize it was foreshadowing how I might be feeling now. You’re always so present in all you do.
Welcome home again, Joanna.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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about paths crossing.
On the airplane coming home from Seattle and Gnomedex, a parade of exhuasted reflections were passing through my mind. They began because the man who sat beside me resembled the business partner I had traveled to the conference to meet. They stayed because of important conversations with important old and new friends like Beth Kanter, Brian Solis, Mark Davidson and Ponzi Pirillo. Mostly faces and important sentences kept crossing my mind. What was striking about them was that they were marking people and moments in my past, new friends in my present, and the future I as I want it to be.
Eric Rice and I couldn’t figure out how we knew each other. We finally gave up and decided that it must have been in some past life or that it hasn’t happened yet that we do. Duncan Riley and I have known each other so long and yet we just talked for the very first time.
Saturday night by a fireplace with Duncan and I talked about the days when we first started blogging to where life has brought us. At some point, Eric Rice happened by to take this photo.
And our paths crossed in time. Now they’re all part of my personal history.
How could I not value them?
All across the United States kids are going back to school. This year, thousands of kids will be a little safer, parents will have a little more information, and educators will be able to do a little more. . . . Their schools are becoming Stargazer Schools
Great Find: Stargazer
Permalink: http://www.stargazer.org/
Target Audience: Anyone who wants to use technology for social good
Content:
Stargazer is a new kind of public/private partnership to:
Get Organized Stay In Touch Be Informed Take Control
Possibly the most compelling Stargazer service is SAFETYLINK (80911)
SAFETYLINK (80911) was started in response to disasters such as 9/11.
Be Informed ââ¬â Send a free public text message to 80911 to let people know youââ¬â¢re safe in an emergency. Then, anyone can go to Stargazer SafetyLink and enter your mobile phone number to read your message. Teach your children, and plan ahead with your friends and colleagues.
Check out Stargazer with your kids.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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On our beach walk on Saturday,
I asked Des this question.
Do you sometimes wonder why
you aren’t meeting the goals
you have set yourself and
may have even announced to the world?
Do you get satisfaction from ticking off your daily to do list or do you wonder what happened to the day? Maybe you have have even stopped making a to do list!
If you have fallen down on some of these things I know how you feel.
I looked at my life over the past week and asked “Hey what is going on here?”
I listened to that small inner voice, my intuition. I noticed how my tummy felt.
The answers came. I am great at getting clarity about where I am heading. Even better at setting big hairy goals.
What I haven’t been doing is following through on the tasks that need to done on the way to goals.
I also see my overachiever, Wonder Woman streak is coming out. Wonder Woman needs a holiday while I get on with business.
Putting that another way I have to accept the fact that not everything I do can be perfect the first or even the second time.
What’s wrong with edition 1, then a revised edition 2?
We could all learn from some of the big guns. Take Microsoft, they have made their fortune with getting people to buy version 1.0, then 1.1 while they iron out the bugs.
Do you ever experience the ââ¬Åit’s not perfectââ¬Â roadblock? What do you do about it?
Social media has become a mash up of friends and education. We’re sharing what we know and communities are forming around that.
Take a look at what happens when Matt Mullenweg sits in at Gary Vaynerchuk’s Single Malt Episode #509.
They say that we’ve become seriously playful.
Social media connects us around information we want to share. That sharing gives us common experience.
What sorts of things do you teach your friends, do you learn from them?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,
I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.
They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.
I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.
Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.
If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.
–ME “Liz” Strauss