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A Successful Outstanding Blogger, that is. Liz Strauss at Successful Blog called me out for being an SOB. I’ve never been so proud to use the term, let alone be labelled one. I’m among some very cool bloggers to have this designation: Instigator Blog, Black in Business, Starbucker, Chief Happiness Officer, Neat Living, and Shards of Consciousness, to name just a few.

What’s an SOB?

They take the conversation to their readers, contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

Here, here. I wear the badge with great pride.

How can I become an SOB?

Though I always wondered how folks got the badge of honor, I never quite figured it out. Here’s how you become an SOB.

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.

You’re supposed to let Liz know about your post, but I didn’t. ‘Till I read the description, I wasn’t sure what I did to get the coveted award. Active participation seems to be the key

Thanks Liz.

In Spirit,
Nneka