Category Archives: Fun Stuff

Baz Brief #16: 10 Tips from Bloggers Like You

Today’s Brief: ‘Ten Blog Tips from Bloggers Like You’ If you’re a member of Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.com Community, you’ll already be aware of this. A few weeks ago Darren issued a challenge for bloggers to create and forward a blogging tip they feel has been useful to their development as a blogger. What followed is [...]

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Get the ‘Blog As Religion’ Master Mind Map – Free!

Mind maps are just cool. As Michael Martine over at Remarkablogger suggests, It’s the fastest way I know of to “splat” out ideas and see them whole (and how each topic relates to others). “ I’ve used mind maps for years. I’ve used them for planning blog content, outlining goals, and even designing a vacation. [...]

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Special Limited Discount Offer on ‘Becoming Irresistible!’

My friend Lyle T. Lachmuth over at TheUnstickingCoach.com is holding a writer’s conference at sea and I’ve been asked to be on the faculty. Break Free & WRITE should be a hoot! I can’t think a better way to get the creative juices flowing than to spend 7 fun-packed days on a cruise ship in [...]

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Get Seth Godin’s ‘Tribes’ for Frickin’ Free!

But do it the right way, OK? For nearly ten years, I’ve been a subscriber to Terri Lonier’s Working Solo Newsletter. Terri’s focus has always been helping Solo Entrepreneurs succeed. In today’s newsletter, Terri gave us a link to download the audiobook version of Seth Godin’s, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, for free [...]

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The Map That Most Blogs Are Missing

“I’m outside and I don’t have my keys.” For the first time in three years, my son called me to tell me this on Tuesday. Not bad…13 years old and he’s never lost his keys.  Technically, his keys weren’t lost and he told me as much. “They’re on my nightstand,” he said when I asked [...]

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Baz Brief #12 – ‘Free’ Dropbox Eliminates Need for USB Drive

Today’s Brief: If you’re always searching for your portable thumb USB drive, consider using Dropbox! How It Works Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been working on a blog post document in a text editor (or a Word, Excel, Photoshop, etc. project) while on your work computer or at a friend’s house and you [...]

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Baz Brief #6: Finding Your Great Work

Today’s Brief: Finding Your Great Work! Michael Bungay Stanier of BoxOfCrayons has released a book called Finding Your Great Work. I downloaded the first three chapters today.  Michael does it the right way unlike the other example of a few days ago. He’s even got this great 8-minute mini-film that you can view right now [...]

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“I’m with Baz”

Normally, this statement wouldn’t make Baz blush. (He said…in the third person…strange.) But when I read this comment over at Monk at Work, I have to admit, I blushed a bit. After all, it was Colleen Wainwright (a.k.a. The Communicatrix) who penned that comment. OK, I’m making way too much about this, but hey…I’m a [...]

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