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		<title>The editor steps in again</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/02/21/the-editor-steps-in-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been unusually quiet at Writelife. You can blame the editor for that. I have three posts unpublished because the editor has nixed them. Yes, the editor is me. The editor is a self-editor. What was wrong with the posts? They were cranky. Whiny. The tone was all bitchiness. The editor doesn&#8217;t like that. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My most popular posts in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a look at my analytics to see what posts were the most popular here during the year. And I made a list of them. I find it interesting looking back at the past year to see that my focus on social media drooped a bit somewhere during the summer as my focus was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respect customers and yourself</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/07/24/respect-customers-and-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin&#8217;s recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]]]></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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		<title>Guidelines vs. rules: bamboozled by bullets</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/14/guidelines-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 11:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=2867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be able to read. You have to know how to read. In other words, it requires some critical thinking. The internet is a good example, especially when it comes to the difference between guidelines and rules. A lot of online material concerns ways to do things: tips, how to’s, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publish or perish: the lessons of Scheherazade</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/05/05/publish-or-perish-the-lessons-of-scheherazade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scheherazade told one thousand and one stories over one thousand and one nights for good reason – to stay alive. Her chief lesson is simple: publish or perish. Actually, in her case, it was also publish and perish – maybe. It wasn’t enough for her to simply tell a tale. It had to be good. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth&#8217;s silly request</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/25/seths-silly-request/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t mean this in the negative way it sounds but for me Seth Godin&#8217;s request, Empty your library, is silly. No need to ask &#8212; I do it anyway! (He asks us to share our copy of his book Linchpin.) Mind you, I&#8217;m a bit of a book geek so it&#8217;s harder for me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satisfaction vs. success</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/12/satisfaction-vs-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given a choice between satisfaction and success, I’ll take satisfaction every time. Why? Because of the difference between the two. One is focused internally and the other externally. We often speak of satisfaction as a negative thing. When we say we’re satisfied we often mean, “It’s okay. I’m satisfied.” Something is good enough, not great. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seth Godin&#8217;s clarion call: a review of Linchpin</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/04/05/seth-godins-clarion-call-a-review-of-linchpin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally finished Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?, Seth Godin’s most recent book, and I liked it a lot. How could I not? It got my brain working overtime thinking about this and that and everything in between. I recommend it to others for several reasons: 1) to see the work you do in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If your brand is you, who are you?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/03/29/branding-is-so-existential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defining your brand is essentially the same as figuring out who you are. If you don’t know who you are, you’ll likely make a lot of wrong moves. Let’s be serious about what you’re selling. It’s a shirt for heaven’s sake. It’s a cell phone. It’s a hamburger. What you are a selling is a [...]]]></description>
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