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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header. -
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Tag Archives: communicate
You need poetry in your posts
What the world really needs is poetry in posts. Seriously. Keep in mind, when we use the word poetry we usually mean it in one of two ways. There is the very technical use when we are talking about something … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Communication, Language
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Tagged analogies, communicate, Communication, descriptive language, imagery, images, Language, meaning, metaphor, metaphors, metaphors similes, Poetry, posts, shakespearean sonnet, simile, Story, storytelling, Writing
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Google makes social media interesting again
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. … Continue reading →
Posted in Communication, Social media
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Tagged andrew keen, artifact, bradley horowitz, brain, Business, communicate, Communication, Communications, digital model, digital technology, environment, facial expressions, google, Interview, message, nuance, nuances, People, revenue models, senses, Social media, social network, Social networks, Technology, vic gundotra, VP Product, VP Social, writelife
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Creativity can obscure your message
In an age of digital this and that, when many of us live large parts of our lives online, creativity often obfuscates our message. Obfuscate means to “render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible,” as my dictionary defines it. It’s not that … Continue reading →
Posted in Communication, Creativity
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Tagged ads, art, behaviour, cleverness, communicate, content, creative element, creative presentation, Creativity, digital, image, images, imagination, meaning, message, Obfuscate, online, People, piddleville, short attention span, understanding, witty wordplay, writelife
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Pairs, sequences and storytelling
The short video below, The Evolution of Storytelling, tells a story about stories. However, pay attention to how it tells its story. Listen to it and pay attention. You may have noticed pairs and sequences of threes. In fact, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Story, Storyboat
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Tagged audience, chaos, communicate, different fonts, evolution, font sizes, Music, pairs, People, Poetry, repetition, rhythm, romanticism, self expression, sequences, stories, Story, storytelling, words
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Storytelling, classifications and definitions
We live in a world mad for deconstructing, classifying and compartmentalizing. We have always done this but never to the degree we do now. It has something to do with the rise and growth of science. It’s the process we … Continue reading →
Posted in Story
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Tagged canada council for the arts, communicate, definition, definition of storytelling, Marketing, Media, oral storytelling, People, science, Social media, stories, Story, stream, streams, visual storytelling, writelife, Writing
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