This is the lifestream of Liz Strauss around the Internet. Tumblr (3.0; @lizstrauss)http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/7_DrrNIGVTQ/">Beach Art Gallery: Sculpture by the Sea</a>: <h2>by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh</h2> <p>A special local event each September for the past few years has been the Swell Sculpture Festival <a href="http://www.swellsculpture.com.au/">http://www.swellsculpture.com.au/</a> . Over ten days, as…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/199961730http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/199961730Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:51:24 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/XMxbMOVhS4Y/">Have You Found the Irresistible Rock Star in You?</a>: <h2> An Ever-Growing Group of Fans</h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right"> <a href="http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1184183"><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1184183_spot_light_stars-2.jpg" alt="1184183_spot_light_stars-2" title="1184183_spot_light_stars-2" width="192" height="222" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11461"/></a> </div> <p>Social media can be an interesting exercise in watching the number of people who click on the button to become followers or fans. Yet you’ve probably…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/199961727http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/199961727Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:51:24 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/jznNGkSyZZE/">Thanks to Week 205 SOBs</a>: <div align="center"> <img src="/wp-content/muddytealstripA.GIF" alt="muddy teal strip A"/> </div> <div align="center"> <span style="color:#000066;"><strong> Successful and Outstanding Bloggers</strong> </span> <p>Let me introduce the bloggers<br/> who have earned this official badge of achievement, </p> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/sob-a-z-directory/"> </a> </div> <div align="center"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOBbutton3.png" alt="Purple SOB Button"/><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOB1.GIF" alt="Original SOB Button"/><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOBbutton.png" alt="Red SOB Button"/><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOBbutton2.png" alt="Purple and Blue SOB Button"/> </div> <div align="center"> and the right to call themselves <br/><a></a> </div>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/198278942http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/198278942Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:27:36 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/PkwgDE0ciMM/">SOB Business Cafe 09-25-09</a>: <div style="margin: 7px; float: right; clear: right;"> <img src="/wp-content/SBcafe_01.jpg" alt="SB Cafe"/> </div> <h2>Welcome to the SOB Cafe</h2> <p>We offer the best in thinking — articles, books, podcasts, and videos about business online written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog….</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/197305095http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/197305095Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:21:45 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/jVmiy5uEc4o/">Have You Ever Used the Power of Being an Original You?</a>: <div> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/thinking%20logo.JPG" width="288" height="30" alt="I've been thinking . . . " title="I've been thinking . . . "/> </div> <p> about the search for the original idea.</p> <p>I used to work to find only original ideas. Learning about true originality has be an education in business, self-awareness, and life for me. </p> <p>…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/196274274http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/196274274Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:30:56 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/trM9dPQ9jT4/">Why You Should Be Involved In Twitter While Having Your Own Blog?</a>: <p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Blogging is fun! I started blogging casually since 2001, moving into my own domain name in 2004, and then decided to blog professionally on my own blog since June 2007.  For some reason or what, I…</span></p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/195307434http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/195307434Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:40:24 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/pP_3HaCiQ3g/">The Mic Is On: Ahoy! It’s Pirate Night!!</a>: <h2> It’s Like Open Mic Only Different </h2> <div style="margin: 2px 7px 3px 4px; float: left; clear: right;"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/TheMicison.gif" width="125" height="125" alt="The Mic Is On" title="The Mic Is On"/> </div> <p><strong>Here’s how it works. </strong></p> <p>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…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/195307423http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/195307423Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:40:23 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/mOvqCPd60NE/">Rules, Negative Data, and Incurable Idealists</a>: <h2>What If Everything We Believed In Isn’t True? </h2> <div style="padding: 10px; float: left; clear: left;"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/changetheworld8.jpg" width="120" height="150" alt="Change the World!" title="Change the World!"/> </div> <p>I’m no computer. My operating system was developed at home, versioned at school, and beat up some through the decades and detours I’ve…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/195307362http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/195307362Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:40:18 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/Qq8bvEN-Z4k/">A Bike Ride Refresher in Social Media Success</a>: <h2> You Already Know How </h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/relationships-button.JPG" alt="relationships button"/> </div> <p>Do you remember when no one knew the word <em>blog</em>? Suddenly, it’s everywhere ? in the New York Times, on the TV News, and in our kids’ elementary schools. The BBC has a…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/194245680http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/194245680Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:19:35 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/dhaYgUFtUuY/">Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time — We’re Talking Pirates!! Don’t Miss It!!</a>: <div style="margin: 2px 7px 3px 5px; float: right; clear: right;"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/JoinUs.gif" width="125" height="125" alt="Join Us Tonight" title="Join Us Tonight"/> </div> <h3>Captain Hook, Blackbeard, Swashbucklers, and the rest. </h3> <p><strong>Playing pirates is always <em><strong>my favorite</strong></em> Tuesday Night Open Comments.</strong><br/> Tonight it’s about playing pirates like we did when we were…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/194245653http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/194245653Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:19:33 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/UAWh-ernRsE/">Beach Art Gallery: Sculpture from the Sea</a>: <h2>by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh</h2> <p>On Tuesday this week we saw something that at first looked like a piece of machinery. When we looked closer we saw that it was part of a tree that had…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/193257511http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/193257511Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:14:54 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/pNvBYbQnLok/">Thanks to Week 204 SOBs</a>: <div align="center"> <img src="/wp-content/muddytealstripA.GIF" alt="muddy teal strip A"/> </div> <div align="center"> <span style="color:#000066;"><strong> Successful and Outstanding Bloggers</strong> </span> <p>Let me introduce the bloggers<br/> who have earned this official badge of achievement, </p> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/sob-a-z-directory/"> </a> </div> <div align="center"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOBbutton3.png" alt="Purple SOB Button"/><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOB1.GIF" alt="Original SOB Button"/><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOBbutton.png" alt="Red SOB Button"/><img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/SOBbutton2.png" alt="Purple and Blue SOB Button"/> </div> <div align="center"> and the right to call themselves <br/><a></a> </div>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/192207367http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/192207367Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:44:21 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/TqWlxDO-9sc/">Why the Brave and Smart Will Survive …</a>: <div> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/thinking%20logo.JPG" width="288" height="30" alt="I've been thinking . . . " title="I've been thinking . . . "/> </div> <p> about fear … a lot.</p> <p>I know it seems that we’ve all lost our manners. Our humanity and compassion seems to be scatter shot, when it’s there. Some of us seem to care more about plants…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/191216910http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/191216910Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:24:47 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/xFsiO-J1RqI/">SOB Business Cafe 09-18-09</a>: <div style="margin: 7px; float: right; clear: right;"> <img src="/wp-content/SBcafe_01.jpg" alt="SB Cafe"/> </div> <h2>Welcome to the SOB Cafe</h2> <p>We offer the best in thinking — articles, books, podcasts, and videos about business online written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog….</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/191216888http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/191216888Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:24:46 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/_DF9sSlNAa4/">Trust the Customer … Especially When Learning the Tools</a>: <h2> A Guest Post by Jonathan Lansner of the Orange County Register </h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right;"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/the-living-web-2.Jpg" alt="The Living Web"/> </div> <p>Trust the customer. It’s never been truer than in the social media world. </p> <p>This summer, I started collecting for my…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/190213468http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/190213468Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:06:48 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/uM7WLPrrX08/">Bikes Are Green Wheelchairs Are Not — Is the Planet More Important Than the People?</a>: <h2> Drive Throughs and Visible Authenticity </h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/visibleauthenticityredux-250.jpg" alt="" title="visibleauthenticityredux-250" width="250" height="55" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5315"/> </div> <p>It seems from the second that I got into the car with Hope and Theresa to the minute they dropped me off at home, my social media road trip was…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/190213462http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/190213462Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:06:47 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/gVNru86-zR8/">EDNet, Adobe, Office Max, Social Media and Education</a>: <h2> Social Media Meets Education? </h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/relationships-button.JPG" alt="relationships button"/> </div> <p>The few days have been filled with talk of education and social media. It seems that business has discovered teachers and the education business has realized…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/189207231http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/189207231Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:05:27 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/NzhcKf72Sgs/">WordCamp Seattle Keynote and Master Classes on Attracting Clients</a>: <h2> WordCamp Seattle — September 26, 2009 </h2> <p>WordCamp Seattle is only 13 days away … What an event it’s promising to be. I’m going out early and on the day before I’ve got a small offer for folks who…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/188158384http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/188158384Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:26 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/XOznPzFiKTA/">3 Simple Ways Passionate Problem Solving Attracts Clients</a>: <h2> When Passion is Sound Business </h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/Creativity%20logo.PNG" width="201" height="108" alt="Creativity at Work" title="Creativity at Work"/> </div> <p>People say “do what you love.” Passion — a deep-seated desire to be doing what we’re doing — is key to keeping our interest through the pain it takes to…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/188158377http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/188158377Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:25 -0500<a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/successful-blog/~3/Obe2PmtZ8kM/">Tuesday, September 15: Social Media Road Trip to Lake Geneva</a>: <h2> Not the Same as College </h2> <div style="margin: 7px; clear: right; float: right"> <img src="http://www.successful-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/relationships-button.JPG" alt="relationships button"/> </div> <p>Offer a social media person a car for a few days and what happens? A social media road trip.</p> <p>In the course of event sponsorship conversations, Hope Betram of Windy…</p>http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/188158347http://lizstrauss.tumblr.com/post/188158347Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:23 -0500