Jason Echols of Black Belt Productivity writes about keeping perspective in his post Calibrated Your Compass Lately? Jason covers 4 basic questions including “What is true right now?” and “What do I want to be true?” then gives tips on how to make the two meet in your life. http://blog.blackbeltproductivity.net/calibrated-your-compass/

Michelle Connolly of Get Organized Wizard shares “7 Productivity Tips For Your Home-Based Business”. Tips include, having a productivity ritual and keeping papers off of your desk. http://www.getorganizedwizard.com/blog/2009/07/7-productivity-tips-for-your-home-based-business/

Ian McKenzie of Ian’s Messy Desk writes about optimizing meetings in his post “5 Steps to Useful Meetings”. Tips include making sure the meeting is necessary, making sure you start on time, and working to the agenda. http://www.ismckenzie.com/5-steps-to-useful-meetings/

Erin of Unclutterer shares tips for organizing Microsoft Office in her post “Peter Walsh provides organizing tips for Microsoft Office users”. Erin writes about a video Peter Walsh made to help Office users become organized, and provides a link. http://unclutterer.com/2009/07/08/peter-walsh-provides-organizing-tips-for-microsoft-office-users/

Easton Ellsworth of Visionary Blogging shares blogging tips in his post “13 Ways for Bloggers to Sleep Better”. Tips include scheduling posts ahead of time, spend more time creating good content than promoting it on social media, and hold a good conversation every day with your blog readers. http://www.visionaryblogging.com/sleep-better/

Darren Rowse has expanded his 31 Days to a Better Blog program into an e-book that is simply amazing. I have incorporated some of these tactics into my own blogging practice and they really do work!

Here is some of what Darren has to say about the program:

If you have big dreams for your blog but have been putting improving it in the ‘one day’ basket - you’re not alone.

31 Days to Build a Better Blog is a downloadable e-book designed to help you revitalize your blog by giving you 31 tasks that will all help to turn it into the page view powerhouse you’ve always dreamed of.
Each day in the project contains:

1. A Task - something to DO that day.
2. Teaching - each day you’ll be given great instruction on both the WHY and HOW of the task of the day.

This two pronged approach is designed so that you come away from the challenge having not only learned how to build a dynamic a blog but you’ll have actually DONE something with the knowledge.

You can get your own copy of this resource by clicking the link below (aff):

RichardatDell shares a presentation from his good friend, colleague…and arguably one of the best corporate evangelists he knows, LionelatDell:

Denise Wakeman captured a couple of short interviews at SOBCon this weekend, one of which features yours truly:

First, you’ll probably ask, “what the heck is SOBCon?” Stands for Successful Outstanding Blog Conference, the brainchild of Liz Strauss who publishes the wildly successful Successful- Blog.com. The actual name of the conference is Biz School for Bloggers and this year marked the third iteration.

My intention was to get quicky tips from many of the successful bloggers in attendance, but alas, I fell short. You’ll see I only managed 3 tips and two of them were in a dark bar at Morton’s Steak House so Stephen Smith and Michelle Vandepas are hard to see. Hope you’ll cut me some slack on these. It was a full 3 days, lots of talking, learning, photos, videos so getting interviews felt like a challenge for me. I’m just not assertive enough to break into conversations, though others have no trouble with that!