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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.) We all had to have blogs and then certain types of blogs, like WordPress. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t have two Cinderellas in one story</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/06/14/dont-have-two-cinderellas-in-one-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling, classifications and definitions</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/04/storytelling-classifications-and-definitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why social media loves dogmatism</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/22/why-social-media-loves-dogmatism/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/11/22/why-social-media-loves-dogmatism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[easy answers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intersection: I reveal what it is I do</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/10/01/intersection-i-reveal-what-it-is-i-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1093;&#1086;&#1083;&#1086;&#1074;&#1080; &#1075;&#1072;&#1088;&#1085;&#1080;&#1090;&#1091;&#1088;&#1080;You 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in The Shallows</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/14/lost-in-the-shallows/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/07/14/lost-in-the-shallows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the silence and pay attention</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/12/listen-to-the-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/07/12/listen-to-the-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazed by how much more there is to know</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/small-header-change/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/07/05/small-header-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel better now &#8212; and at least for now. I finally changed something that has been bothering me for a long time. My header use to say Writelife and below it, &#8220;Musings on the craft of writing, technology, social media and whatever else comes along.&#8221; Apart from being a bit pretentious with words like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breadth, depth and brains</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/06/15/breadth-depth-and-brains/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/06/15/breadth-depth-and-brains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always liked Nicholas Carr for his skepticism. Unlike contrarians, who take opposing views for their own sake, Carr as a skeptic asks questions, the kinds that challenge assumptions. Challenging assumptions is good for the brain. I’ve just picked up his latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains and I’m [...]]]></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 Wren</dc:creator>
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		<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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