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En vacances? Not really

by Bill on August 27, 2010

The other day I came upon some writing I did quite a while ago. By “a while” I mean fifteen to twenty years ago. Amid all that writing I found a series of stories I wrote. I had put them together under a tentative title, Rather Short Stories for Rather Small People. Other than being [...]

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Double digit nothing

by Bill on August 12, 2010

The last few weeks have been characterized by lots to do, a good deal of frustration and, most significantly and surprisingly, reassessment. In other words, I’m over-extended and not in a good way. I probably have twelve posts on twelve different topics that I have started over the last few weeks, none of which is [...]

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Listen to the silence and pay attention

by Bill on July 12, 2010

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 [...]

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Visual storytelling: know your medium

by Bill on July 9, 2010

There is a 30 second ad I’d like you watch — but with the sound off. You’ve probably seen the ad before; it has been on TV enough and all over the Internet. Whether you have seen it or not, I’d still ask you to look at it again without any sound. I’ll tell you [...]

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Facing the stairs

by Bill on July 3, 2010

This post doesn’t have any tips or suggestions that will help you to solve problems or engage your creative side. It’s really just an observation. It’s about something everyone will inevitably encounter in their life: the daunting stairs you’ll have to climb to get to where you want to go – and what happens once [...]

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No one cares about your brand

by Bill on June 30, 2010

I have a theory and it goes like this: no one cares about your brand. This is because no one cares about brands, period. They care about people. Let me give you an example of this. In 1997 James Cameron released his movie Titanic. It was wildly successful. It was a big movie and an [...]

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Arriving where we started

by Bill on June 20, 2010

(Originally posted on another blog, this post was published Sept. 25, 2005 – or earlier. But it’s Father’s Day and I thought it appropriate.) It has not been the best of years for quite a few people I know. I’ve been struck by how many of them have lost someone in their lives, in most [...]

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