Each Friday, I open the brag basket as a fun place to brag or promote yourself and your projects.
Last week, Michelle and I bragged on SXSW!
You can brag on a friend, your own project, yourself, others, anything! You don’t need special permission or anything. Just leave a comment right here. There’s no deadline, so you can brag anytime during the week, and I’ll open a fresh Brag Basket each Friday.
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Fabulous lunch meeting with an HR colleague who tells me she’s impressed and intrigued with how I’m using the social networks to my benefit as an HR gal. Love it. Want to be one of the first HR folks to really embrace this brave new world and bring many more old school HR practitioners with me.
Kim, we’re impressed, too! You really are leading the HR folks, and we’re glad to know you. Congrats!
I can’t say that this is really a brag, but I learned a new application of an old (MS-DOS based) skill this week. I mastered mail merge, data source construction (to suit Word), and hardest (for me) construction of the proper format for the desired print-out. Goody, now in the declining years of my life, I am finally qualified to be a “secretary”! Becky will say that I am just an old MS-DOS dinosaur, but the DOS based databases were much easier to learn and use! Or, maybe I was just much younger.
Go, Mom, Go! :)
Proving once again that you are NOT a dinosaur!
Hey Becky,
Great idea…the Brag Basket. Love it!
I recently wrote a post with complete details on how I tripled my blog’s traffic:
http://www.erica.biz/2008/how-i-tripled-my-blogs-traffic-in-two-months/
Also, I finished a post about how women struggle in business, which should be up as a guest post on a popular personal finance blog next week.
Hope you are doing well! :)
-Erica (ericabiz on Twitter)
New to your blog. I like it! I’m a small business attorney, and we recently polished off a psychotically comlex Excel spreadsheet for our March Madness pool (don’t worry, it’s free and hence legal). Why is this a business accomplishment? My permission marketing asset (my email distribution list…) went from 83 names to 314. Lots of existing clients building a stronger relationship, and lots of new prospective clients.
And lots of downtime watching basketball… speaking of which, time to get back to work.
Great blog, and I love the idea of the weely brag basket. I just might try to steal your idea!!
Erica, congrats on tripling your traffic! I see you are taking your own advice about commenting, also! Here’s the short link to Erica’s article: http://is.gd/2y6
It was terrific meeting you at SXSW, and I look forward to some chances to work together.
Jim, thanks for the compliment. I love the way you leveraged your spreadsheet project to build your database. Relationship building is key to small biz!
And feel free to borrow the idea of a Brag Basket. I borrowed it from my local group of the Business and Professional Women.
I would like to brag about interviewing Becky at SXSW. I posted the interview on the new Blog I started SolutionsArePower.com (http://solutionsarepower.com/2008/helping-other-small-businesses-through-a-blog/)where the idea is for Experts and Small Business to exchange ideas, tips and success Stories. I hope to get more of my friends and your blog readers to contribute.
Thanks,
Shashi
Thanks, Shashi, for interviewing me! I was very flattered to be featured. Looking forward to many future projects with you!
OK, I really, really have to brag today. The Checklists for your First Small Business post that Chris Brogan prompted me to write and that Mom contributed greatly to, has become our single most popular post ever. It was picked up by the very widely read Lifehacker site and has reached the Del.icio.us Hotlist and Popular pages. Instead of our usual 200 daily pageloads, we’re over 4000. Woohoo!
Becky, congrats on your interview with Shashi. I was lucky enough to appear in two places in the Wall Street Journal’s Small Business Report this week:
1) Quoted in an article about blogger outreach (online subscription required).
2) Asked to make a Recommended Reading list to accompany the article.
Thanks for allow us to share our stories with you here!
Congrats, Scott! That was some excellent coverage for you! Not just once, but twice! Your recommended reading list was terrific, too.
Was great to meet you, too, at SXSW!
Becky, I’m glad to see you bragging on yourself — great that your post was picked up Lifehacker, and I see that you’re in the Small Business section on Alltop.com now. w00t!
I’ll brag on myself for stirring up a hornet’s nest with the local Chamber of Commerce with my post “Five White Men Talk About Social Media.” (http://is.gd/2w0) I’m not usually one to be critical or complain, but in this case I just had to speak my mind.
I’ll also turn around and brag on the Chamber of Commerce because the minute my friend Brenda pointed out the lack of diversity on the panel for small business owners, they not only apologized but took steps to remedy the situation. Now I’ve been added to the panel to discuss how to use new tools and technologies to market your business.
I can’t help thinking that’s a win-win situation.
Go, Connie! You did a good thing by stirring that up, and I’m glad they have responded to your points. Excellent results!
Oh, and thank you for the cheers! :)
Not really a brag so much as an intro. If living in a small town that is really a suburb of a major metro area is still considered “small town,” then I fit the bill. I am employed full-time but trying hard to build a freelance web design and development business. With a handful of clients on the roster already, I’m running out of hours in the day to get everything accomplished. But: being busy beats the alternative!
Howdy, Bob! If you feel like a small town person, we’re glad to welcome you. Plenty of bigger city folks read SBS, either for general business info or because they’d like to move out to a small town.
Congratulations on keeping busy, and here’s to a successful future from your small town!
I think I will just brag that I am Becky’s friend! What amazing things are happening with the SBS blog! YOU GO GIRL!! oh, and congrats to Maesz, too!
OkieJ, you are getting sappy in your old age! :P
But I’ll take the brag on Maesz! Her advice on tax issues has really paid off in a couple of articles lately, and I sense a couple more comin!