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		<title>Social media marketing – why make it hard?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/08/social-media-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>‘Emotions are contagious’</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/08/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of a book I’m currently rereading, Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison. (You’ll find it over at Thoughtwrestling.) This morning, I was looking over a chapter titled “Throwing up rockets,” a phrase from P.T. Barnum and it started me thinking about a few other things, like school murals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media basics for a small business</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/27/social-media-basics-for-a-small-business/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/05/27/social-media-basics-for-a-small-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 10:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses, especially small businesses, are wary of social media and for a variety of reasons. The reasons are legitimate given that owners are wrapped up in the business of actually running their business, so they are often in uncharted territory with very little time. One of the biggest reasons, and biggest pitfalls, is: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking ahead</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/23/looking-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was less active here at Writelife because I was busy with, work that pays the bills lovely weather requiring me to do outdoor work Every so often, this happens! I haven&#8217;t been inactive, however. I actually got quite a bit of writing done for others and have several posts in the &#8220;half-finished&#8221; stage. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy, clarity and informed consent</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/16/privacy-clarity-and-informed-consent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 15:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For as long as the Internet has been around, two things have always been true: Everything is public Hardly anyone treats it that way We add encryption and passwords and all manner of security tools and processes, but still mistakes happen, sites get hacked, email intercepted, “Reply All” mistakenly hit. When it comes to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seduction and the security of diversification</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/26/seduction-and-the-security-of-diversification/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/04/26/seduction-and-the-security-of-diversification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a crazed and almost bipolar relationship with very big technology companies. We hate them as we love them; love them as we hate them. They seduce us, we know we’re being seduced, but we love the seduction even as we think, “Oh, this is going to end very badly.” Only human beings could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes are signage</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/09/quotes-are-signage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is full of epigrams, aphorisms and quotes. I used a few in my post yesterday. You see them every day in tweets and status updates. They’re all over the place. Why is that? What are they for? They’re signage. That’s the simple answer. They&#8217;re wayfinding information. As with anything, excess turns them into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web sites and vertical vs. horizontal</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/02/web-sites-and-vertical-vs-horizontal/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/04/02/web-sites-and-vertical-vs-horizontal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a discussion on LinkedIn where the question was asked, &#8220;Why do we still design web sites that are vertical?&#8221; In the responses, I saw some examples of pages that were horizontal &#8212; you scrolled left to right. The question went on to muse about how our monitors are more landscape oriented and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A world of absolutes</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/19/a-world-of-absolutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed, as you may have too, that we love absolutes, especially online. On Wednesday there was an opinion piece on the Globe and Mail site that said bloggers are male. Women who blog must have struggled with their sexual identity upon learning this. With trackable regularity, claims are made about this or that being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When do you post and why?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/02/25/when-do-you-post-and-why/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/02/25/when-do-you-post-and-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick little post that is primarily questions. For instance, if you schedule your blog posts, when do you schedule them for? I ask this because I&#8217;m in the Atlantic time zone. Many people are in the Eastern time zone and many in the other zones all the way to the Pacific. Of [...]]]></description>
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