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Kent Blumberg Is a B.A.D. Blogger

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Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Kent there?

After a talk with Barbara at my cellphone company to adjust my minutes higher — I should hold a contest to see who can guess how many a month are in my plan. — I was able to sit back, relax, and meet Kent Blumberg for our conversation.

Kent was well worth that cellphone plan adjustment.

I started with comments about Kent’s blog — how well focused and branded the message is. We discussed the short list of categories that tell a story and the short blogroll that relates and expands on the same theme. I wished out loud that I had such a clean sidebar. That discussion led to a comparison of WordPress and TypePad, with explanations of how he ended up on one and I ended up on the other.

Then I asked one of my favorite questions, “What do you do when you’re not doing this?” Kent explained his background in the paper business. I could related to that. We talked about the ways in which the paper business is shrinking, which led Kent to sharing his interest in a new industry.

Kent sees his future in working with cellulosic-ethanol. I didn’t know what it is either. Lucky for me, Kent does a great job explaining it. Get him talking about it and you might suspect that he had it for breakfast — his energy level goes up, as if he’s been refueled. (Okay so, now and then I go for the easy one. Sorry, Kent.)

Kent’s not only sure cellulosic-ethanol is in his future, but also sure that it’s in ours. He knows that the industry needs strong business leaders. He plans to be there to make the new fuel and new jobs this fledgling industry will bring.

I love the way that when bloggers talk, we can’t help but learn new things from each other.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

People will hear more and more about cellulosic-ethanol. . . . All of the companies are run by by PhDs and they need people to build and run the businesses.–Kent Blumberg

Stop by Kent’s blog, and say hi!

Thanks, Kent, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Links Leaked over the Lyrics and Quotes

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Can I Quote You?

Wisdom and conversation were the same thing at Tuesday Open Comments Night, last night. We heard from Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, and Betty White So it was no real surprise when the links started leaking as they always do.

The Link Leak Virus seeped into every thing we saw. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared in a word or twol

Quoting Geniuses

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Ellen Weber Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:03 pm e
My quote – “We can learn from experts – and we seek them for mentors as well as partners. Yet, when these pros grow stagnant and compacent – we call them on their relapse, and encourage their evolution forward.”

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Sean says “It’s yet another in a long series of diversions at an attempt to avoid responsibility.” – Chris Knight (Real Genius)

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Ah Pek Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
“Imagine all the people..living life in Peace….”

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Joe Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…

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Sean Says:

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

– Albert Einstein

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Mermaid Renée Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:18 pm e
“To be successful at anything you have to have the guts to be hated” – Bette Davis

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Sheila Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded
Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the
Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth
The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and
Roars and reves his mathematical rage
on the footprints of Vikings
trapped on a sonic tape recorder
ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old.

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Delaney Kirk Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
WOODY: Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson? NORM: All right, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty.

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cat Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“No offense intended, I’m also fiery passionate about the brand of nuts I eat”

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ME Strauss Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

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Chris Cree Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:42 pm e
OK, Instead of Bette Davis, how about a quote from Betty White?
All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

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Scorpia Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:43 pm e
More like:

You’ve got questions. We’ve got security flaws.

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Rick Cockrum Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Or maybe a pod? The kids look at me like I came out of a pod sometimes. Would that make us iPods?

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Jessica Doyle Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
“I fear what i do not know.” from my boyfriend eric.

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Marti Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:51 pm e
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:54 pm e
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. “

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Steve Sherlock Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:56 pm e
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest… Simon and Garfunkel

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Sandra Renshaw Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:10 pm e
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
– David Brinkley

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Char Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pm e
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:01 pm e
“Money…it’s a gas…”
“Hello out there, we’re on the air, it’s hockey night tonight…”
“All in all we’re just a ‘nother brick in the wall.”

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Candice brought the lovely Christopher Walken video

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Troy Worman Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:29 pm e
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Sir Winston Churchill

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John Richardson Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm e
It was 90 degrees here in Sunny California today…

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey

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ME Strauss Says:
November 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am e
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make”

The Beatles

-ME “Liz” Strauss

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11.5 Rajesh Setty — About the Book: How It Got Published

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How It All Came Together

Last week and this, Raj Setty has shared thoughts and insights that expand what he wrote in Beyond Code.. He shared his personal story, how team loyalty and individual goals can work together, “The Inner Game” of attitudes and philosophy about career, life, and ambition, and “The Outer Game” of learning leadership.

Today we talk about Raj’s book, Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! how it came to be published, what he learned in that process, and advice he has for others who might want to follow his lead.

Raj, how did an IT consultant convince a publisher that he was qualified and able to write a book on how people might distiguish themselves to lead a fuller more successful life? What did you learn from the exprience? What advice for future writers do you have to share?
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11.4: Rajesh Setty — The Outer Game

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Life as a Contact Sport

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On Wednesday, Raj discussed The Inner Game and the Five Ls. He explained how attitude and philosophy toward life, career, and ambition can lead a professional to focus and improve personally. He calls the topics for self-improvement the “Inner Game” and characterizes it with the Five Ls — Learn, Laugh, Look, Leave a Lasting Impression, and Love.

Today, Raj speaks to how positive interaction with others contributes to professional and personal success. In his book, Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! Raj calls that “The Outer Game.”

Some folks might argue that the Outer Game — Leverage, Likeability, Listen, Lead — can’t be learned, that what you’ll get is manipulation. How would you answer them?

Life is a contact sport and no man is an island. Outer Game covers those practices where there are some external dependencies. For example, you have to learn to be likeable by someone ELSE. Here is the basic premise for each chapter of the Outer Game.

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Writing for That One Most Important Reader: That Curious, Clever, Intelligent Individual

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How Do You Write for Everyone?

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How easy it is to get overwhelmed when I think of how individual each reader is. How can I possibly meet what they expect, when each of them comes with a different goal, a different history, and a different mind set?

Whatever the subject I choose to write on, I can be sure that some readers will know it far better than I do and some will have never encountered it before. How do I bridge gap to write a piece that meets learners on solid ground while engaging readers with significant expertise? These writing questions are central for anyone who writes for an audience of more than two people they already know.

How do I answer these questions for myself and for others?

I give them the answer Big Roy discovered.
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Interview 11.1: Rajesh Setty — Raj’s Story

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From Child Author to IT Consultant

Recently I wrote, if you want me to care, tell me who you are. It was a statement about knowing who wrote what we are reading. That statement becomes more when the writer in question is Rajesh Setty.

Rajesh

When we learn about who Raj is, it’s no wonder Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! is packed with testimonials to its quality and wisdom. Not every IT Consultant can write about personal and interpersonal skills in business. Not every business book can boast a foreward by Tom Peters.

Raj has worked in five countries. He wrote his first book when he was nine years old. He’s what people might call one in a million. He’s a nice man, who has friends almost everywhere.

I knew this interview would be outstanding, if I could find questions that went beyond the book in the same way that Raj had gone Beyond Code to the basics of every business. I was thrilled with the wealth of advice and experience Raj sent back in his answers.

Rajesh, tell us your story. How is that you came to be a child author? How did that child author become an IT consultant? What lead that consultant to write this book?

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