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Bloggy Question 86: Google Is Coming!

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Is It Evil?

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .

You’re a social media consultant. You’ve just established a working relationship with an event planning bureau. Your client provides a service — they match clients who want to sponsor international conferences and trade shows with experienced, local event planners. Your task is to develop a strategy to reach new potential sponsors and to establish a strong and visible online presence for the client company.

Two weeks into your relationship, the Chief Marketing Officer contacts sends you a link to the first page of Google Search. The search is on “Google Event Planning Center.” You read a few of the listed results — all contain the same basic information. Google has announced intentions to establish an international meeting place for event planners and sponsors to do business. . . . not much more. Some industry leaders offer speculation on Google’s strategy. No date for launch or further information is given.

How do you advice your client to respond to the announcement?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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Abundance Comes from Being Grateful

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Beach Notes by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel

 

Each morning as I walk on the beach I am reminded of how blessed I am. It is the simple things that help me start my day in an abundant way. This week the tide has been very low and the pool created by these low tides had me meditating on the simple things that make me feel abundant each day.

The beauty of the beach

The clear blue water

The ripples the waves make,

The clear, clean air

The rays of the sun warming my soul

The cool sand between my toes

The patterns in the sand

The rock to meditate on

Shared thoughts with Des

Saying good morning to familiar faces

Smiles from friends and friendly faces

Watching a surfer ride a wave

The feeling of freedom

The wonder of nature

Each morning I find at least 10 things to be grateful for. This starts my day in an abundant way.

What do you do to start your day in an abundant way?

–Suzie Cheel, AbundanceHighway.com

Serious about Social Media: Are We Losing the of Context of Our Lives?

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Linking in Ways We’ve Never Linked Before

You Tube is the equivalent of 400 “always on” TV channels. We are producers, directors, and the audience, but it’s more than that. We’re passing on culture, values, and meaning.

Watch as social anthropologist Dr. Michael Wesch captures and explains the lessons of the participation culture for the Library of Congress.

“. . . think of the fun people are having as they’re doing this dance.”

“It’s a celebration of new forms of community.”

“The web is about linking people in ways we’ve never been linked before.”

This video is an hour long. If you’re serious about understanding what’s happening online, start watching. I’m about to watch it for the third time.

Social media is the dynamic tension of everything inside and outside each of us.

Social media helps us balance our increasing individualization with community. It helps us fill our increasing isolation with relationships and to replace a growing environment of commercialism with authenticity. We build communities through screens and webcams.

We live in an increasing loss of context where everyone is watching and no one is there.
45:20 for the climax.

Did you see yourself and people you know in this video?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Thanks to Week 146 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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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.

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Want to become an SOB?

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

SOB Business Cafe 08-08-08

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

in over your head asks if we’re thinking about what it means.
Some may applaud Apple’s decision to remove the $1000 iPhone app (the one that does nothing) from its store the other day but, in reality, it’s deplorable.

Jonathan Fields asks if you’ve been paying enough attention to your friends.
When people you speak with constantly dart between listening to you, giving you their attention, then wandering offer, especially mid-sentence, it’s just incredibly disconcerting. It makes you feel belittled, insignificant, frustrated and angry. Oh, hell, it just plain sucks!

remarkable communication asks whether you know how to make someone
We want someone who really gets us. Someone who speaks to us, and just to us. Someone who listens to our problems and fears, and then makes those go away.
feel special.

Steve-Olson.com asks whether you can handle your life gracefully.

BIGG Success asks how you know your own attitudes?
If you keep running into a wall, you have to ask yourself if you’re being persistent or stubborn.

Related ala carte selections include

1 Good Reason asks which way to turn?
You’ll know social media and the internet are the primary source for people to get info when that’s where they turn first in an emergency.

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like. No tips required. Comments appreciated.

–ME “Liz” Strauss