Successful Blog’s Liz Strauss, the absolutely radiant energy behind SOBCon confers her SOB title weekly on bloggers she feels are expanding the conversation that IS blogging. She embodies her belief that “blogging is about the people” and, to stimulate that conversation, she created the SOB program.

As Liz explains it, she is coaxing bloggers to, “Find a way to start a dialogue about how blogging helps business, or carry the dialogue here back to your own blog. Offer a great feature, post, idea, or an article that will shed new light for the blogosphere. Add an outstanding idea, insight, or spark to the conversation going on at this blog or start one on your own and share what happened here. Contribute something that demonstrates that you think like a Successful and Outstanding Blogger. Find a unique way to ‘add value’ to the conversation going on in the blogosphere to make it grow stronger.”

And so now Loosely Speaking has added me to her list of SOB’s and I get to display the badge! Kind of like getting a nice piece of Vosges Chocolates. I look forward to extending my online conversations into the face-to-face realm by making it to the next SOBCon in Chicago in the spring of 2008.

Thank you Liz!

And speaking of that…

• Calendar of Blogger’s Conferences and Summits (and a few others besides)
  
• Creating Sense of Place in Your Blog
• Face Time or Blogging – Which Wins in Your World?