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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 hold our own interest in something if we aren&#8217;t passionate about. But we have to [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=4034</guid>
		<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.) We all had to have blogs and then certain types of blogs, like WordPress. And [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3984</guid>
		<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; online. I saw a rather stark example of what I consider this online no-no today. [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3832</guid>
		<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 the creativity we bring to something isn&#8217;t imaginative. It&#8217;s often very imaginative; very clever and [...]]]></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 fugue state where it is concerned. The dictionary on my computer defines fugue (second meaning) [...]]]></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 of sociability. Increasingly, I see people with their smartphones walking around talking and texting and [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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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 content.&#8221; This is a very good thing. But it makes me wonder, what is considered [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3729</guid>
		<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 them. I don’t want to read or watch content. A movie? Yes. A video? Yes. [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3650</guid>
		<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; we’re really talking about &#8230; our identity. When we concentrate on, and try to [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/11/18/impractical-pursuits-and-other-questions/#comments</comments>
		<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 own head yet. Part of it, however, is counter-intuitive – which is why I call [...]]]></description>
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