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		<title>Google makes social media interesting again</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/07/26/google-makes-social-media-interesting-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself wondering if Google might be the first company to actually get social media by focusing on the word social and realizing something was lacking in a big way in the world of social networks and technology generally. This was after having watched Andrew Keen’s interview about Google+ with Vic Gundotra (Google’s VP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art and utility</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/19/art-and-utility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year (much longer, actually), we’ve seen the idea of creativity being the key to business success in the world and the world as it is evolving. We’ve seen new phrases pop up like “the creative economy” or &#8220;tell your story.&#8221; When we talk about creativity, we inevitably talk about art. Not all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People and stories &#8212; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/02/people-and-stories-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote that, “A story is people involved in events told by people to people.” I then asked why some stories are interesting and others dull. I suspect the answer to that has to do with that word “people.” We’re obsessed with ourselves, each other, and what happens to us. That is what news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small business: up to speed on domain hosting?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/08/03/small-business-up-to-speed-on-domain-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve encountered a number of clients who have been paying for domain registration and hosting with no idea of what a competitive price would be. As a result, many of them have been paying twice as much as they should. To make things worse, they were receiving less than half of what they should have [...]]]></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>Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/16/efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” - The Kinks - On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It did, however, provide me a link to Wikipedia and an entry on sustainable living.) I [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/07/08/social-media-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<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>The real road trip</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/14/the-real-road-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post led to an even more interesting discussion. On Thoughtwrestling, Rebecca posted “Zen and the Road Trip Book,” her take on Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM), a book from 1974 that has lingered for many over the years. It’s a road trip book that isn’t about a road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain explains stories and social media</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/03/mark-twain-explains-stories-and-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/06/03/mark-twain-explains-stories-and-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to write a post titled, “How to write a story.” However, a quick Google search showed that Mark Twain had beaten me to it. How wonderful is that? He has a piece titled, “How to tell a story&#8221; (see note at bottom). In a nutshell: don&#8217;t over-tell. In terms of story and business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing involves movement</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/01/writing-involves-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a post up today on Thoughtwrestling that was kind of fun to write: The physicality of creativity. The topic theme was to describe how we do our best creative work. It was interesting because normally when I write, I just write. This time I was paying attention to what I actually do when [...]]]></description>
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