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25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom — Pass It On!

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Can 25 Words Change the World?

The Living Web

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom Writing Project. Every selection was an example of the power of writing. When sat down to bring them all together, I wanted to make this one something special.

Thank you for your wisdom!

You shared thoughts about time, love, vacation, death, marriage, waiting, confidence, gathering, parenting, pain, contributing, adversity, beauty, customers, success, financial freedom, joy, open minds, blogging, fear, freedom, accomplishment, action, connection, balance, the past, the future, laughing, relationships, wishes, leadership, Twitter, writing, and changing the world.

Here’s what you wrote.

25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom

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I checked twice to be sure I got everyone’s selection. But if I missed you please let me know and I’ll edit and add you in immediately. The 25-word authors are:

Karin H
Mark
Mark Goodyear
Lisa
stephenpreneurBhupesh Shah
Diana
DazzlinDonnaKaren Lynch
Courtney
RadiantWoman
EdKarl
Robert Hruzek
Ami
JP Rangaswami
Mark
Aaron Stroud
Terry Starbucker
spaceagesage
Claire Raikes Dennis Salazar
Brad Shorr
Mother Earth
Katie KonrathSuzie Cheel
Christine Taylor
Tom Volkar
Todd Jordan Stephen Smith
Peter Knight
Joe Hauckes
theFemGeek
Bobby Clark
Meryl333
Liz Williams
Lara Nieberding
David Taboada
Phil Baumann
Anant
John Cooper
Paul Downey
Paul WhitehouseLillie Ammann
Vicky H
Mark David Gerson
Eric Peterson
Jenny Mannion

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Thanks to everyone who participated by writing or reading!

I’ll be updating this when enough new submissions come through.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

Connie Reece – The SOBCon Update

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Connie ReeceHave you ever heard of a “Plurkshop”? Well Connie Reece has been giving a series of them. Check out Every Dot Connects to “[get]… a glimpse into the minds of some of today’s social media practitioners and thought leaders, and give you a taste of what the plurkshops are like in case you want to join us for future events“.

PlurkshopOn Plurk, a newer microblogging/presence app, we have been having a series of “plurkshops,” an online DIY workshop where we start a topic and discuss it in real time, effectively turning Plurk into a chat room. This has been peer-to-peer knowledge sharing at its best. Some plurkshops have yielded over 600 comments in two hours, with the quality of the information shared being impressive. That’s a firehose of words, of course, so some of the participants have started writing recaps to summarize the discussion and put it into perspective.

In fact, the Plurkshop on Social Media Management is particularly insightful. Read about it all here [link].

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Don’t, Not, and No

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Beach Notes by Guest Writer Suzie Cheel

This week’s Beach notes is a little different and will add to Liz’s 25 words group writing project. I wrote one yesterday that I was going to put here and then decided to put it over at The Abundance Highway

These 3 Words have the power to change how you feel, whether negative or the positive.
Don’t, Not and No

Zap my energy

So when I catch

Myself saying

Don’t Not and No

I ask Myself

So what do I want?

Listen to your words today.
How often do you use these 3 small words?

–Suzie Cheel, AbundanceHighway.com

“I don’t have any friends like that . . .”

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Welcome to Saturday Night at the Movie

About a week ago I saw this video from IBM over at Client Magnet.

Of course, it doesn’t show the experience of anyone we know.

A visit to their site shows that IBM doesn’t offer much in the way of community connections. Don’t they think any friends are important?

Social media connects information and relationships. It offers a venue for people of likeminds to find each other — it’s unlikey we could do it any other way in such numbers. It’s great way for a company to get to know its customers.

Social networking is about the quality of relationships, not the quantity.

Do you find many people like this guy when you’re at your local social networking site?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Thanks to Week 143 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

Last Day of the 25 Words of Life / Work Wisdom Project

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Start with a Sentence End with a Thought

The Living Web

If you have tried to write something in exactly 25 words, you’ll find that the process is about reflection and changing.

Today is the last day to add your post to the 25 Words of Life and Wisdom Project. You’ll find the details and the submission at that link. What people written so far is truly inspiring and led me to these 25 words of my own.

A random twenty-five words
might not convey meaning or power.
Yet translating a thought
into precisely twenty-five words
can transform a thinker into a writer.

Some investment are valuable for the experience they bring.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!