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		<title>En vacances? Not really</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/27/en-vacances-not-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I came upon some writing I did quite a while ago. By &#8220;a while&#8221; I mean fifteen to twenty years ago. Amid all that writing I found a series of stories I wrote. I had put them together under a tentative title, Rather Short Stories for Rather Small People. Other than being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respect customers and yourself</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/24/respect-customers-and-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin&#8217;s recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media marketing – why make it hard?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/08/social-media-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re a small business owner and you have to get on that social media thing. Everybody says so. Everything you read says so. You can’t turn around without someone asking what you’re doing with social media. And you’ve looked at it. You’ve been on Twitter and Facebook and you’ve read articles and you’ve talked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Emotions are contagious’</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/08/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of a book I’m currently rereading, Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison. (You’ll find it over at Thoughtwrestling.) This morning, I was looking over a chapter titled “Throwing up rockets,” a phrase from P.T. Barnum and it started me thinking about a few other things, like school murals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity and free speech</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/07/authenticity-and-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Jonathan Fields had an interesting post titled, &#8220;Is social media killing authenticity?&#8221; I found the question intriguing partly because I think the answer is likely yes, at least in the sense Fields is talking about it (as in, people reporting words heard taken out of context). I had asked a similar question in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s theme is rabbit warrens</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/23/todays-theme-is-rabbit-warrens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I have a post over at Thoughtwrestling, one I&#8217;m both happy with and unhappy with. Actually, I don&#8217;t quite know what to think of it. I like it, but it&#8217;s not quite what I was hoping for. The post is called Can we choose to be creative? It produced a number of rabbit warrens, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes are signage</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/09/quotes-are-signage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is full of epigrams, aphorisms and quotes. I used a few in my post yesterday. You see them every day in tweets and status updates. They’re all over the place. Why is that? What are they for? They’re signage. That’s the simple answer. They&#8217;re wayfinding information. As with anything, excess turns them into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other writing</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/other-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are relatively recent items I&#8217;ve written and had published elsewhere. NOTE (Jan 11, 2012): Brunswick News has recently moved to a pay model so Daily Gleaner items are not available without a subscription. Lessons about life: fear, bullying and being yourself – Daily Gleaner Hopes and plans for the year ahead – Daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender, technology and generalizations</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/24/gender-technology-and-generalizations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking about genders we inevitably employ broad and loose generalizations. We know there are differences (the obvious biological ones). We think there are differences in thought because it often seems that way though we’re never quite sure because sexuality and relationships often cloud the issue. In the case of a subject like “women and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A world of absolutes</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/19/a-world-of-absolutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed, as you may have too, that we love absolutes, especially online. On Wednesday there was an opinion piece on the Globe and Mail site that said bloggers are male. Women who blog must have struggled with their sexual identity upon learning this. With trackable regularity, claims are made about this or that being [...]]]></description>
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