CREEating Value - 1 March 2007 - Special Blogtipping Edition

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CREEating Value - About once a week I go through my feed reader and pull out a few gems that bring value to you as a business blogger. This week’s CREEating Value just so happens to coincide with Blogtipping Day.

Blogtipping is a little thing started a while back by Easton Ellsworth over at BusinessBlogWire. The idea is on the first day of the month to go choose a few blogs out there, share three things you like about the blog and offer one constructive tip that could make their blog better.

I’ve never participated before, mostly because I don’t remember the date until well after I’ve posted and I miss it. Well today we’ve got a fortunate convergence of days!

So here are this week’s juicy finds, complete with tips.

Enjoy!

Working at Home on the Internet (feed) - Joe Hauckes is one of the first true blogging friends I ever made. He’s incredibly generous with his time and his talents. He was one of the first to dialog with me back and forth on our blogs consistently when I was getting started. He is not afraid to try new things and wants the details to be right because he wants the best for his readers. His site has a forum. Joe hosts and manages the Work at Home Blog Carnival. Even though we’ve got our own things going now and don’t “see” as much of each other as in days of old, I still consider Joe a good friend and I’m so looking forward to meeting him in person at SOBCon ‘07.

Tip - Joe keep keeping your priorities just where you’ve got them. Family first. Us bloggers will still be here when the dust settles.

Black In Business (feed) - Jim Walton is one of those guys that on first brush I wouldn’t think I’d have much in common with. I mean just put our two pictures side by side! But Jim’s passion for his subject is compelling. He writes about the challenges and what it takes to be black and in business. I really don’t didn’t have a clue about the issues that I don’t face as a white guy. Jim is not afraid to wade into the sticky subjects from time to time. And yet his is still a blog for ordinary people wanting extraordinary success. He’s another fella I’m looking forward to meeting this May in Chicago.

Tip - Jim consider putting up a button to make it easier for folks to subscribe to your feed. I had to dig the link for you feed from my reader this morning.

ConverStations (feed) - As long as we are on the subject of guys I’m looking forward to meeting face to face in Chicago, Mike Sansone is definitely on my short list too. His blog is well on the way to becoming the definitive resource for business blogging. His Itinerary page is a tremendous resource chock full of all kinds of business blogging know how treasures. Then there’s his Blogroll page! Holy Smokes! If you never looked at another blog outside of the ones he has there you would still be miles ahead of the pack.

Tip - I feel a little awkward “tipping” such and accomplished master. I do have a stylistic idea, though Mike. If you changed to a three column layout you could have even more of your great resource information available on your front page.

Cutting Through the Social Media Noise

Yesterday Renée Alexandrea commented about all the junk that comes up when she searches on Technorati for stuff. She brings up a good point. There’s a lot of crapola out there and it can be hard to sift through.

Then last night Mike Sansone hosted a podcast with a roundtable discussion about Social Media Tools.

The show is two hours long and I haven’t had an opportunity to listen to it yet. However Mike solicited topic questions so I asked if they’d discuss the issue of sorting the signal from all the noise out there on these tools.

Knowing Mike, I’m sure they covered the topic and have a bunch of pointers waiting for us.

Check it out. I’m looking forward to listening to it on my new iPod myself

Enjoy!

Some Travel Reading Just For You

This morning I am hopping a flight up to Chicago for a week. It was so nice of them to have a snow storm yesterday and drop the temperatures to below freezing for me so I can really be reminded of what winter is really like as I work up there this week.

Of course our office secretary has no sympathy about me heading into cold weather as I have a tendency to complain about the heat much of the time here in Savannah.

But seeing as how I am going to spend much of the day traveling, I thought I’d share a couple good links with you for some reading, especially since reading is one of my favorite things to do when I’m doing the airplane thing.
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Better Get In Motion or You’ll Be Stuck With Dead Ducks

This morning Mike Sansone posted a quick note on Perfection.

Do you struggle with wanting everything to be “just so” before you get started? Are you looking for a sure fired guarantee that you will see the results you want so you can take that first step to get into action?

Are you a planner? I am.

I have been through long years of training and an even longer career where working out the details, preparing contingencies, covering my bases, and yes, even getting my ducks in a row.

Are you more comfortable working out the details than pulling the trigger?

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Contemplating a Bit of a Course Change

Y’all know that a big part of the whole exercise here at SuccessCREEations involves a certain amount of introspection. The idea has been to explore ideas tips and strategies so we can all become more successful.

As I noted yesterday, some of that introspection involves finding where our passions lie. I am exploring and doing some heavy thinking along that vein keeping my eyes out for whatever treasures I can find along the way.

Obviously one of my passions is blogging. I like sharing ideas and the community of people from all over the world that can connections all over the world that blogs do better than most other avenues.

Another of my passions is business. Business is what makes the world go round. I know you may have thought it was money that kept things moving. But it takes businesses to create the goods and services which generate the money to make the world go round.

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