Among the real powerful benefits of blogging is how conversations connect us together, yet stretch us farther.
I’d like to thank those that took time to elaborate, instigate, debate and extend some of the ConverStations outward in the month of November:
- If Forrest Gump was a Business Blogger by Jim Turner who shares a few of his Gumpisms worth spreading. Thanks for the K.I.S.S., bubba.
- Blog Forrest, Blog by Denise Wakeman, building on the ideas about the commitment of business blogging
- Des Moines and Viral Marketing by Andy Brudtkuhl. Buzz? What’s a buzz? Buzz Insurance?
- Blogger has Media Execs Eating Out of His Hand by Sean Howard who works amongst the buzz-hungry and buzz-confused. The prescription? Engage first. Don’t miss the video on this one.
- Blogs Are a Conversation by Valeria Maltoni, about the connective tissue, the collaborative power, and the community of conversation.
- I Left My Heart in Des Moines by Starbucker, the blog-trotter of all globetrotters gives conversation in person with a few members of the Des Moines Blogga Nostra
- Incentives That Work, Revisted by Tom Vander Well who finds someone linking to a post he wrote six months prior (blogs are living documents, folks)
- The Viral Garden’s Top 25 Marketing Blogs by Mack (daddy of community building) Collier. One of my goals is to always be the dumbest guy in the room. I easily qualify as dumbest on this list (but they make me smarter)
- To Blog or Not to Blog by Sandy Renshaw who follows up on a web developer’s hollow blog talk (aka Horse and Buggy show) with some nutritional linkage.
- I Don’t Have Time to Play on My Computer by Mary Schmidt, GRRR…er, um…Great Post!
- Loving What You Do is Yummy Like Fruit by Briana Franco, just re-reading this soothes my soul (psst, Mary – it’s pay for play, right?)
- Better Get in Motion or You’ll Be Stuck With Dead Ducks by Chris Cree, It’s okay for plans to change – Chris looked it up. Just get moving.
- Strategy First…Tactics Follow by Chris Brown, reminding us there is a bigger question about our animals on the move. Why are we trying to move them?
- Blogging is a Brave New World by Carolyn Manning (and check out her new digs) Showing that links are more than just hyper.
- Future of Blogs by Sanjay Sahay on the importance of what really matters (nope – it’s not a blog)
Also: The Amateur Gourmet; Viaspire; Aaron Gerdes; Kent Blumberg; Essential Keystrokes; The Write Path; Jaduka; Business Blog Wire; Tell Ten Friends; Motivation on the Run (podcast too!); Blogging for Business; Black in Business; Customer Experience Crossroads; Successful Blog; Rush on Business; My Name is Kate; Marketing Nirvana; Business Blogs Now; Ask Dr. Kirk; Drew’s Marketing Minute; An Entrepreneur’s Journey; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blogosphere; Communication Overtones; The Dude’s Blog; Flooring the Consumer; Carpe Factum; Blawg-IT; Shards of Conciousness; 7CM Marketing; Noah’s Ark Animal Foundation; CCU CEO; Stories by REL; Merchant Circle; Make it Great!; Little Choo Choo Shop; Life in Medical School; SharedNeedles; and to my friend who spoke the truth without a link or mention of my name – you are a blessing (as are all on this post)
The Signal: Why do I do this kind of post? Is it just to earn more links next month? Yes Nope. If you read here often, you know I preach a 15-20 minute posting time. This took me almost two hours. If it took eight hours – I’d still do it.
Links are not only currency to the author – they are currency to web surfing reader. Extend the conversation outward.
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