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Efficiency

by Bill on July 16, 2010

“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 [...]

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Lost in The Shallows

by Bill on July 14, 2010

“According to an extensive 2009 study conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, most Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even three of the [...]

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Listen to the silence and pay attention

by Bill on July 12, 2010

Noise is a common complaint about social media. We often say there is too much worthless chatter. When we say this, we’re complaining about content. It’s of no value to us; it’s all noise. For people like myself who work in social media, we’re usually referring to the tsunami of tweets and posts and updates [...]

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Facing the stairs

by Bill on July 3, 2010

This post doesn’t have any tips or suggestions that will help you to solve problems or engage your creative side. It’s really just an observation. It’s about something everyone will inevitably encounter in their life: the daunting stairs you’ll have to climb to get to where you want to go – and what happens once [...]

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No one cares about your brand

by Bill on June 30, 2010

I have a theory and it goes like this: no one cares about your brand. This is because no one cares about brands, period. They care about people. Let me give you an example of this. In 1997 James Cameron released his movie Titanic. It was wildly successful. It was a big movie and an [...]

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How to be a better writer – three tips

by Bill on June 29, 2010

Here’s how to become a better writer: 1) write 2) read 3) listen They seem obvious, at least to me. Especially the first one. How does anyone improve a skill except by practice? Whether they’re athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, doctors — whatever — people get good at something by doing it. A lot. It’s the same [...]

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