Michael Sync

Liz called me an SOB

19 Jan, 2008 Personal

Liz at Successful blog (one of top blogs about blogging) gave me the Official SOB award yesterday. <link> I’m really happy to receive this award and this is my first time that I receive an award for my blog.

SOB (Successful and Outstanding Blogger) Award

What is SOB?

SOB stands for Successful and Outstanding Bloggers. This award is for those who are contributing a lot of great resources to the community and their readers. If you want to know more details about this award, you can read this link (What is an SOB? )

How to become an SOB?

The short answer is that you have to do something useful for other people. then, let liz know about your blog and what you contributed for community. That’s all. She will come and visit your blog. Then, she will decide whether she should call you an SOB or not.

Here is what Liz wrote about this in her blog ~

If You Want to Be 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.

Then just tell me about it. I’m pretty easy to persuade. E-mail Liz at lizsun2@gmail.com with a link to your post or a brief description of what you did.
That’s all there is to it.

Every SOB is automatically included in the SOB Hall of Fame. Stop in there when you’re looking for a great read.

Can’t wait until I can call you an SOB too.

The following post are the most popular posts of my blog and those are the reason that I become an SOB.

Technical Articles

Silverlight 2.0 – How to design the blog theme with Silverlight
Consuming ADO.NET Data Service (Astoria) from Silverlight
OpenSource Silverlight 2.0 Controls and how to use them
Maintain Scroll Position of DIV using JavaScript – ASP.NET 2.0 (It has 96 comments so far.)
Script# – Is Script# right for you?
JavaScript – Working with Database (It has 78 comments so far.)

Firebug Tutorials ( This tutorial is featured in the most of popular post of del.icio.us and the best links in Smashing Magizine. )

Blogging

Wordpress.com Vs Blogger.com
Things you should know before using Sitemeter (It has 60 comments and 52 diggs so far.)
Backup your blog with Outlook 2007

Fun

Thanks a lot for giving me this award, Liz.

23 Comments so far »

Soner Ertim said

am January 20 2008 @ 12:11 am

Congrats Michael, hope you get more awards for your blog. Liz is right, you got a quality blog with full of resources.
Michael Sync said

am January 20 2008 @ 12:44 am

Thanks a lot. Soner.
Liz Strauss said

am January 20 2008 @ 5:30 am

Hey Mike!
Congratulations! The blog looks beautiful with that big award in the middle of it. Glad to have you as part of the family.
Michael Sync said

am January 20 2008 @ 5:49 am

Hi Liz,

Thanks for visiting my blog..

Glad to have you as part of the family.

Yah.. I love to be a part of the family..
Kyawsoe said

am January 20 2008 @ 6:03 am

Hey Ko Mike,

Congratulations!! We, our Myanmar bloggers, are pround for you.. keep it up!! You are the man, buddy!!
Anna Vester said

am January 20 2008 @ 6:10 pm

Congratulations, Mike! I have just recently discovered your blog, and it looks like you have lots of great content! Thanks for that!
Michael Sync said

am January 20 2008 @ 6:19 pm

Thanks a lot, Kyawsoe and Anna Vester…

I’ve been to your blog too.. your blog is amazing.. I read about your goal for 2008.. Good luck..

Wake up at 6:30am during workdays

haha. I can’t wake up at that time… I used to wake up at 8:00. but trying to wake up at 7:30
Myo Kyaw Htun said

am January 21 2008 @ 12:44 am

Congratulation for your success in blogging. !!!
Michael Sync said

am January 21 2008 @ 12:51 am

Thanks, buddy. hey, btw, the RSS count is raised in our blogs.. I’m not so sure whether those are actual count or not. Problogger said that there is some problems in feedburner..

btw, I’m facing one problem …. I’m thinking to put ads in my feed too.. As I’m using Feedburner, I enabled FeedFlare in my account and placed the js code in my theme.. but ads doesn’t show in my feed. Instead, it shows the footer of first post of my blog..

Do you have any idea about that??
moeyae said

am January 21 2008 @ 3:08 am

hey..buddy that’s cool!
Congrat!
Ben said

am January 21 2008 @ 1:31 pm

Hah, All my life, people have been calling me SOB, and I didn’t even know I was a Successful and Outstanding Blogger. Thanks for clearing that for me

Hey Congrats!
Ray said

am January 21 2008 @ 6:49 pm

Congratz! bro.
Michael Sync said

am January 21 2008 @ 6:56 pm

Thanks, moeyae, Ben and Ray.

Hey ray, “No Pork” video from your blog is really cool..
Reaper-X said

am January 21 2008 @ 7:27 pm

Congrats Michael, the next award should be MVP
MelodyMg said

am January 23 2008 @ 4:18 am

Hey Mike,

Congratulations!

Firstly, What is SOB?
How is that? I know it as …. hahaha
After I read your post, Cool! SOB stands for Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.
Cheers! Keep it up my bro.
Michael Sync said

am January 23 2008 @ 4:25 am

Thanks, sis.. SOB is not son-of-you-know-what.. haha… I think Ben was also thinking the same as you think..
Ben Hayat said

am January 23 2008 @ 10:18 am

>>I think Ben was also thinking the same as you think.. <<

Michael, I know what a “SOB” is, I was just messing with you, when I read the title “Liz called me an SOB”.
thinzar said

am January 24 2008 @ 11:06 pm

wow!! congrats!
i’ve learnt a lot from your posts.. u deserve the title – SOB
Myo Kyaw Htun said

am January 25 2008 @ 1:15 am

Off topic.

Yep, My feedburner count goes up to 350 and fall down to normal after two days.

I think it might be the problems with Feedburner
Myo Kyaw Htun said

am January 25 2008 @ 1:31 am

I wonder’s why you feedblare did not work ?

There is another way that you can apply feedburner’s ads program to this email support@feedburner.com. I heard that feed count should be more than 1000 or something like this.

But, don’t worry Google Adsense’s “adsense for feeds” program will come soon.
Michael Sync said

am January 25 2008 @ 1:45 am

Ben,

was just messing with you,

thinzar

wow!! congrats!

thanks. sis

MKT

don’t worry Google Adsense’s “adsense for feeds”

I think it’s already there, right? When I go to Monetize page, it ask me to login my Google Ads account. so, i thought it might be google ads for feed.. i’m not so sure about that….
Have you tried putting ads in your feed? man let me know if it’s working for you..

you guys, thanks a lot for visiting my blog… I’m really busy this week and I hope I can post one new post on this sunday..
Alex Espinoza said

am January 25 2008 @ 6:01 pm

Congratulations…!!! You deserve it. You are one the blogs I read regularly, and I really enjoy your articles.

Keep it up.
Michael Sync » Happy Belated Birthday! My Little Blog said

am April 4 2008 @ 9:25 am

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