Archive for September, 2007
‘aight, it’s time for the second edition of the new Social Skills Blog Carnival. Let’s jump into the selected submissions from the past two weeks:
Potential 2 Success presents Be A Presence In Any Room
Improv Lifestyle has sent in The Power of “Yes, and”
Thanks to Networking Insight we have 4 Signs that Your Relationship Building Techniques are Not Working
Edith Yeung has written How to Read People and Get Your Point Across?
Universe to Success presents Overcoming Loneliness
Dee from Don’t Be Shy gives us Dealing With Shyness
Arun presents The Power of Being Social
The Student Socialite presents Take My Bizness Card: How to Network
The Urban Monk presents Expanding your Comfort Zone like a Champion: Fear and Anxiety Cures
Scott H. Young presents Mastering Conversation
By the way, anyone who has submitted an article that’s been published here so far, feel free to keep sending in your stuff for future editions. I’m not going to not publish perfectly good writers just for the sake of mixing things up. If you’ve got a supply of good, relevant social skills posts then I’m happy to publish in future editions.
That’s it for now. Next edition: Monday, October the 8th. You can submit your writing here
September 24th, 2007
It’s September the 18th, so that means I’ve been working on this little social skills site / project for exactly a year. Well, technically for the first six months all the articles were under the URL www.howtobecooler.com (doesn’t work anymore), but that name was pretty dumb and confusing so I moved everything over to www.succeedsocially.com at around the six month mark.
I don’t have a whole breakdown of this site and its goals and progress ready to go. It’s been a rewarding year though. For some reason I’m really interested in this topic and it’s been nice to have this venue to work out my thoughts on the area. I’m somewhat surprised I haven’t run out of stuff to talk about yet, but I seem to keep thinking of new ideas. Next year will be more of the same, plus maybe some other stuff if I decide to put it up. Long term my goal is to have the best resource out there for this area. That’ll involve a lot more adding of new ideas, and editing and refining the articles I’ve already put out.
Oh, and thanks to everyone who’s written and offered encouragement or feedback. Good to know I’m helping people. It’s corny to say, but that’s what it’s really all about, isn’t it?
Okay, peace out.
September 18th, 2007
I got what I think is a pretty decent turnout for a first blog carnival. Some good articles in the submissions as well.
I’m not going to publish several of the submissions though. Many were on personal development topics that were related to social skills only in the most loose, general sense. I made a call to only include articles that are directly related to people skills. If you made a submission that didn’t get published, feel free to try a more focused article from your site for next time:
On to the submissions, roughly in order I received them:
General Social Skills:
Scott H. Young presents The Critical 7 Rules To Understand People
The Urban Monk presents The lost art of touching, Part 1: Caring, Healing, and Sexual
Alex Shalman.com presents Proactive Listening Should Be Your First Social Skill
Don’t Be Shy presents Stop Avoiding What You Want
The Positivity Blog presents Focus Outward to Win Friends and Improve your People Skills
Nerd Guru presents Who’s in charge? Understanding group dynamics
Nikki presents a video post on How to Not Suck at Socializing
Networking / work:
Edith Yeung presents The 7 Rules of Networking Made Easy
Outfit Inspirations presents How To Be Remembered Once the Lights Go Out
That’s it for this one. The next edition will be out on…let’s say…Monday the 24th.
September 10th, 2007
Put up a new quickie article today:
When You Want To Do Better With People… But Not Really
September 3rd, 2007