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The Ageless Project: Generations of Bloggers Sharing Thoughts from All Over the World

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A 20-Something and a Boomer

When my dear friend, Keith Dsouza offered to write a guest post profiling a couple of young bloggers, I’m sure he didn’t know what he was about to get himself involved in. Within seconds I started having ideas, and Keith didn’t run fast enough. We were in a discussion about the 108-year-old blogger who just had a birthday, and about how bloggers come in every age from children up to 108 as far as we know.

Introducing Keith Dsouza, who will be writing for Successful Blog.

Ageless Thoughts from All Over the World

by Keith Dsouza

Do you have an age syndrome with blogging? Do you always think something like I am 32 or I am 58 and I can’t start blogging? Well welcome to a world that is ageless and has no restrictions on what you say. Welcome to blogging.

It’s an ageless project.

Most professions have age restrictions, blogging does not.

If you are 90 years old, you can blog about how your great grandchild plays with you with his toys and how you enjoy it.

If you are a 13 year old, you can tell the world how well you fared at your first baseball game.

If you are a mom or dad, you can write about your child’s growth and after few years, let him read it. You can look back at those cheerful memories again 10 years further down the line.

Age is never a factor for telling people what you love. A blog can get you there.

Blogging can make you friends with someone who you would never have approached in real life. I am 25 but I still have a great friend in Liz who old enough to be my mom. Blogging brought us together breaking the barrier of age, without blogging I wouldn’t have approached a woman of her age to be my friend.

Have you seen the ageless project? We’ll be using it to explore what bloggers of every age are doing. See the gnerations of people there. Then why not add your blog? You can do that by clicking the logo below.

Blogging has no restrictions and with the help of the ageless project, we will find and profile bloggers from a 13 year old to a 93 year old. Blogging is an ageless project. What we’ll be doing here is ageless too — the focus will be on how age isn’t a barrier in sharing your thoughts with the world.

Great thoughts come from every age and all over the planet.

–ME “Liz” Strauss and Keith Dsouza
Work with Liz!!

The Idea Dude Is Connecting Dots . . . Connecting Us

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a writer I admire, the.idea.dude, Vernon Lun — Successful Blog’s newest arrival.

Behind the curtain at The Good Blogs, you’ll find, Vernon — and his partner Tony — reading every good outstanding blog that makes it into their amazing directory. The blogs that Vernon selects are a reflection of his values — quality, heart, intelligence, and spirit. I know. I’ve been talking with him since before SOBCon07.

Vern has natural insight and wisdom. Gosh he gets my brain going — check this post about his personal blog’s first birthday for proof.

Did you see that list of what he says he’s learned?

Vernon is not one to let the world know of his talents. But I am.

Did you know that . . .

  • Aaron Brazell, Director of Technology at b5 media said, . . . Vernon Lun . . . actually created the tool that allowed us to clone the design with unique colors and logos across all the [blogs.]
  • Vernon’s got a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In his thesis he formulated a framework for distributed real-time intelligence.
  • Vernon’s words are sticky. See how Vern’s idea stuck with Haydn Shaughnessy. I hope the debate over collective wisdom is not over because every time somebody else puzzles over it we stand a chance of writing what Vernon Lun recently referred to as a digital sociology. Few writers can do that.

Vernon’s elegant thoughts and generous heart make such things happen. They also have me jazzed to announce Vernun is writing for Successful-Blog beginning today!!!

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Vernon’s column, Connecting Dots, is exciting and something uniquely Vernon. Vern’s a master at perceiving relationships that take us from one thought to another. So Vern’s going to take us with him as he travels the living web on that silver thread that connects us all.

The Idea Dude is connecting dots for our reading pleasure.

Like peanut butter and chocolate, it’s time we got together.

On a rare occasion, the reality is better than the vision.

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For the sake of continuity, I’m publishing Vern’s first column right below this one . . . It’s called Connecting Dots.

An Exciting Day at Successful Blog

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As We Used to Say in High School

Back in high school, when the mood was high, and we knew we were about to embark on something great, we would break into a carnie’s pitch that went like this . . .

It walks.
It talks.
It crawls on its belly like a lizard.
. . .
$10,000 if it isn’t alive!

That’s how I’m feeling today.

A New Feature, A Writer I So Admire

In a few moments, I’m going to introduce a new weekly column, featuring a writer and a human being I so admire. The concept is one that connects the dots that we are, the thoughts that we have, the ideas and the dreams. We’re both so excited about this — It’s a way to bring more of us together. Read with a whole new mind. See the living web come more alive!

The BIG IDEA Begins! Changing the World!

In a few short hours, I’m introducing a new series. It’s a breakthrough for me. It’s changed me and my business. It can change you and yours. This is the tiny start of the BIG IDEA — how I plan to change the world with a capital C.

Yes, I did say that out loud.

So say it with me. . . . “It walks. It talks. . . .”

I’m getting serious. How can that not be fun?!!!

Yeah, I’m a little scared too.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

Bloggy Question 56: Get Your Own Network!

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Leave the Computer!

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. . . .


A few months ago a blogger named, Evan, showed up on your radar. He’s a guy who went to your high school. You didn’t know him then. You figured that you know more about him — where he lives, what he looks like, who he used to hang out with — than you did when you met the blogger friends that you know now. So you befriended him.

You’ve been showing Evan around, helping him with his HTML, introducing him to people. When he’s asked for help, you’ve been there. That’s what bloggers do.

Lately, though, your friends have started complaining about him. They say Evan’s been trying to use them to milk their networks. He keeps asking Your friends to introduce him. Your friends hardly know Evan and don’t want to recommend someone they don’t know.

You heard yesterday that Evan lobbied to have you not invited to a party given by good friend of yours — one you introduced him to.

It’s a touchy situation. The friend throwing the party doesn’t know that you you’ve heard. His girlfriend told you about Evan’s duplicity. BUT the girlfriend is possessive, doesn’t like Evan, and has made up stories about you.

How do you respond?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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SOBCon07: Free Food! Free Stuff! Great Entertainment! Enlightening Speakers! And What About That Terry Starbucker Guy?

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Hello again everyone, Terry Starbucker here from Ramblings From a Glass Half Full

As you can see by looking on the right hand side of this page that I’m one of the speakers at SOBCon07 (register now!).

Actually, while I am going to speak at this event, my role is going to be different than the other fellow bloggers who will be on the podium.

You see, the only reason I ended up on that list is because I really wanted this event to happen, and was more than willing to offer my help to make it a reality. It was on one of Liz Strauss’ Open Comment Nights where I had the audacity to suggest that we try to get her Successful and Outstanding Bloggers (SOBs, as she calls them) together in Chicago.

I had so much fun corresponding via comments on a blog (and if you haven’t done this on Tuesday nights, you really should – it’s a blast) that I really wanted to meet these people – they all seemed so nice, so authentic, and pretty darn funny.

As it would happen, Liz had been thinking about this already – she wanted to do more than just have a nice party. She wanted to take this to a whole other level – where relationships could be deepened, blogging skills can be expanded, and our known world could be significantly expanded. She wanted to make it something special, in a way that only she (and other wonderful friends of Liz ) could.

How could I resist that? So I signed on, and on May 12 I will having the honor of introducing the other folks on the right side of the page.

Who is Terry Starbucker? Just a fledgling blogger from Connecticut, in his late 40’s and working full time in the service business world (and doing a lot of traveling to the Rocky Mountain West). I really enjoy blogging, and I’ve grown to cherish the relationships I have forged through it.

I like to look at life as a glass that’s half full, not half empty – in my blog I call it “looking at the literal world in a favorable way“. I also have wrapped “Half-Fullism” into a belief statement, inspired by Crash Davis in the movie Bull Durham.

As is my habit sometimes (I like to write lyrics and sing on occasion), I wrote a poem on my recent first blogiversary that I think sums me (and my blogging) up nicely:

It was one year ago today
I found a place where I had something to say
Talkin’ about the daily grind
And those amazing ties that bind

Connecting through the written word
Soaring with prose like a high-flying bird
Keepin’ it positive in a humorous way
Finding moments that matter in every day

So I celebrate blogging, one year on
A labor of love that I chanced upon
And now I’m committed, and that ain’t no bull
To keep up with those Ramblings
From a Glass that’s Half Full

That’s why I’m going to Chicago – because I’m committed to find more of those “moments that matter“, and I know at SOBCon I will find them in abundance. I am willing to go to the top of any mountain and yell (or more likely sing) at the top of my lungs “Attention all bloggers: This is one special event you will not want to miss – it will be something you will remember for the rest of your lives!”

Register now!

Roving Sheila at SXSW 03 -09-07

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South by Southwest, SXSW, is a yearly conference in Austin, TX.serving the film, music, and interactice industries..

Guest Reporter Sheila Scarborough

Greetings Liz,

Thanks for the chance to blog for you, here’s my first email….

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Greetings, Successful Bloggers, let me see if I can whip this out before I go to the BlogHer meetup at 8 pm (BlogHer Technology and Web writer Virginia DeBolt already has a SXSW post up.)

Your Roving Reporter has decided to brave the wilds of SXSW Interactive, the “ground zero for the world’s most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs.”

Hey, I saw the word “blogger” somewhere in there and figured, close enough.

I’d already paid and registered online (even uploaded my own photo so I didn’t have to take a dorky one for my badge) but my organizational abilities still failed to get me on time to the first panel that interested me, “How to Rawk SXSW.”

(I think to rawk is good.)

Once I waded through Austin traffic, waded through the line to get my badge, waited to have them make my badge (I guess they want to make sure you “have it your way” or something) there were only 10 minutes of rawking left.

It was an interesting 10 minutes.

The panelists spent this last bit of session time telling the audience how to do “contact management,” which is apparently how to meet people.

There were lots of panelist comments to the audience like, “Have meaningful conversations versus many conversations” and “Actually engage in the panel discussions — close your laptop” and “Are you scared of introducing yourself? Buy the person a beer.”

Geek social guidance?
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