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		<title>Passion without a harness</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/17/passion-without-a-harness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1086;&#1075;&#1088;&#1072;&#1092;&#1080;&#1103;ikoniWe hear and read all the time about how we have to be passionate about what we do and, yes, we do. It&#8217;s hard to generate enthusiasm in others if we don&#8217;t feel passion and it is also hard to &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/08/17/passion-without-a-harness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social media school and learning curves</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/01/social-media-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Most of what follows was written prior to reading Chris Brogan&#8217;s Social Media Fatigue. It would be a very different post had I read his post before writing this. But it seems serendipitous that my post and his should coincide.) &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/08/01/social-media-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Get to the point</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/07/13/get-to-the-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get to your point immediately or readers will abandon you. This is especially so online. No one is willing to plow through that first little bit you write to guide a reader into your subject. It is &#8220;now or never&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/07/13/get-to-the-point/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity can obscure your message</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/04/28/creativity-can-obscure-your-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible,&#8221; as my dictionary defines it. It&#8217;s not that &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/04/28/creativity-can-obscure-your-message/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social media fugue &#8211; is the bloom off the rose?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/04/01/social-media-fugue-is-the-bloom-off-the-rose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1074;&#1080;&#1082; &#1091;&#1089;&#1083;&#1091;&#1075;&#1080;Over the last four months or so I have been using social media far less than a year ago and I wonder if social media hasn’t hit a kind of tipping point and I’ve entered into a kind of &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/04/01/social-media-fugue-is-the-bloom-off-the-rose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How social is social media?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/02/01/how-social-is-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a question I’ve been mulling over a while now. I know social media is social but I wonder if it isn’t social in a way that displaces – or perhaps the correct word is &#8220;replaces&#8221; – another form &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/02/01/how-social-is-social-media/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Google doesn&#8217;t like content farms</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/01/21/google-doesnt-like-content-farms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Google Blog &#8212; Google search and search engine spam: &#8220;&#8230;We hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/01/21/google-doesnt-like-content-farms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with content</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content has a problem and it is easily stated: I have no interest in it. I don’t believe many do and, of those who are interested in it, they aren’t interested in content but in what it can do for &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Branded by a dog</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/29/branded-by-a-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without intending to, I’ve allowed my dog to brand me. Although I rant about the idea of personal branding, I’m aware I have a one. (From my post a year or so ago: &#8220;&#8230; When we use the term brand &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/11/29/branded-by-a-dog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Impractical pursuits and other questions</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/18/impractical-pursuits-and-other-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a post on Thoughtwrestling today called Nothing more to say – the secret brain. In it I mention something I call The Impractical Pursuits Project and I’m deliberately vague because I’ve not fully formed the idea in my &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/11/18/impractical-pursuits-and-other-questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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