Take Your Bloggin to the next level
What does it mean to take your blogging to the next level?
It means engaging your potential, reaching for the vision and executing what you see. At SOBCon, we’re going all out to make this event insightful, memorable, content-rich, educational, different and fun!
The SOBCon Next Level Quest
Together we will strategize, discuss, and learn how to
- respect that in business and blogging all things are based in connecting relationships
- treat our blogs like a business, or a business-like hobby
- define a vision for our blogs that inspires others to be part of it
- identify like-minded bloggers whose blogging goals match our own
- evaluate our work through the eyes a first time reader
- use links, trackbacks, and comments to lead to increased participation, extended reach, and relationships that could develop into business ventures
- ensure that navigation, in presentation, and in all reader experiences are intuitive, simple, and elegant
- know our brand values as readers define them and be able to articulate the unique and remarkable values we offer
- understand basic tools that are useful in adding video, podcasting, social media, and voice commenting
- reach out beyond the blogosphere to nonblogging readers to become a resources they rely on
- recognize the traits and characteristics of a successful and outstanding blog
Presenters with specialized experience, will get the conversation started, and together presenters and attendees will work interact to get you where you need to go — to take your blogging to the next level.
Liz Strauss
Behind every Successful business is an Outstanding Manager. — PVM
Hi Liz
So sorry I can’t be there!
On your list I especially like item 4: define a vision for our blogs.
I will (have to) work on that
(on all three blogs)
Comment by Karin — March 14, 2007 @ 5:48 am
Hi Karin,
I didn’t really have a vision for Successful-Blog until I wrote my blogging goal. That was rhe result of a writing project that Darren was doing. I wasn’t giong to take part. I thought I was too busy, but at the last minute I sat down and wrote.
The act of writing my blogging goal was turning point for me. It made me see clearly that I had in my mind a way I thought things should be. Knowing that goal is mine and rvery real has kept that vision in front me and each day it fills with more detail.
Comment by Liz Strauss — March 14, 2007 @ 5:53 am
Strange, not? We are used to write ‘vision plans’, business plans, action plans for everything else, so why stop here?
Is it just being ‘too new’ at blogging you forget the most obvious thing? (In your eagerness to be ‘part of the blogging crowd’?)
Thanks for setting me straight on this (counting on you these three weeks, since my mentor is on a very well deserved holdiay!)
Comment by Karin — March 14, 2007 @ 6:26 am
I think you’ve got a point, Karin.
We sure don’t vision plans for a shopping list, but the truth is that most projects get going without overall agreement on what “good work”" will look like. We had a saying in educational publshing . . . “the program is over. Time to make the prototype.”
Somehow we all (me too) think we’ve got the idea in our head and that’s enough. We only find later that the idea in our head was sketchy and unfinished at best. Writing and planning make us think things through in order to articulate them.
So does this make me a surrogate mentor?
Comment by Liz Strauss — March 14, 2007 @ 6:30 am
As if you are an exact copy!
Comment by Karin — March 14, 2007 @ 7:30 am
I am YOUR evil twin
Comment by Liz Strauss — March 14, 2007 @ 7:35 am
Awesome stuff happening here. SOBCon 07 will be great.
Liz, I tried leaving a comment at SOBEvent.com just now but it’s not working - hangs on this page. Thought you should know!
Comment by Easton Ellsworth — March 14, 2007 @ 10:22 am
Hi Easton!
I can’t wait to meet you in Chicago. You are one in a million!
Comment by Liz Strauss — March 14, 2007 @ 10:35 pm