by Bill Wren on August 1, 2011
(Most of what follows was written prior to reading Chris Brogan’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 [...]
by Bill Wren on June 14, 2011
This is about sports and stories – specifically, hockey and stories. So you’ve been warned. We’re down to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. That’s a big deal in Canada and, depending on who and where you are, it may be a big deal to you. Two teams are in it: the Vancouver Canucks [...]
by Bill Wren on December 4, 2010
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 developed in order to learn and understand. It can, however, be restrictive and have the [...]
by Bill Wren on November 22, 2010
Not a day goes by where we don’t see tweets and post headlines telling us “you must” or “you need” and similar dogmatic injunctions. Is it because we like being told what to do? Is it because the authors are megalomaniacs? No. We write headlines like these because the statistics tells us they work. Does [...]
by Bill Wren on October 1, 2010
холови гарнитуриYou never know where ideas and help are going to come from or when. Yesterday I paused from working and found two posts that helped me discover something I’d been looking for a long time. What was I looking for? What it is I do. For me the most painful, almost unbearable kind of [...]