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Irony: Fewer Words, Better Communication

by Tim Berry on June 9, 2009

in Blogs and blogging, Writing

It was sometime in the 1970s when I first ran across the Procter and Gamble one-page memo policy.  I was a journalist then, interviewing an executive from P&G. It seemed to make so much sense. The people who worked there, I was told, loved it.
What can’t you say in a full page?
Think about emails, which [...]

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Boomer Business Blogger Part 4: You Have to Like Writing

by Tim Berry on May 8, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Blogs and blogging, Social media, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Writing

True confession: I love writing. I love short sentences, strong words, making myself understood.
I think most, if not all, good bloggers like writing. Video people do vlogs and YouTube, poets go to Twitter (say, what?), but bloggers are writers. Almost all of my favorite blogs — I’ve got the blogroll on this blog, rightmost column, [...]

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Boomer Business Blogger Part 2: It’s A Full-time Job

by Tim Berry on May 6, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Blogs and blogging, Social media, Weblogs, Writing

Benjamin Floyd of Read Click Done asked me after yesterday’s post: “how do you do it?” Two books, 1400 or so posts, 1300 or so tweets in the last two years. “Where do you find the time.”
Fair question. Reminds me of Bob Sutton’s Really, I Write it Myself. So do I. Bob thanks his editors, [...]

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Boomer Business Blogger Part 1: Two Year Anniversary

by Tim Berry on May 5, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Blogs and blogging, Social media, True Stories

Two years ago this month I started blogging. Just a couple weeks after naming Sabrina Parsons CEO of Palo Alto Software. I remained president, but switched my job to blogging, writing, speaking, and teaching. I guess I should have changed my title to CBO, for chief blogging officer.
I didn’t understand at first …
“I’m a business [...]

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God: I Tweet, Therefore I Am

by Tim Berry on January 2, 2009

in Blogs and blogging, Technology, Writing

God is no longer in Yahoo! Messenger, but she is in Twitter. Not on LinkedIn, but several incarnations in Facebook. True story: Several years ago I found God on Yahoo! Messenger. That was the year that Yahoo! Messenger first started….

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Delightfully and Disturbingly Human

by Tim Berry on December 8, 2008

in Blogs and blogging

A blog post calls another very well known and well liked blogger an idiot. That’s the title: “So-and-so is an Idiot.” A mutual friend tipped me off in an email. I know the alleged idiot in that post, I do…

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Thanks Anita Plan-As-You-Go Book Giveaway

by Tim Berry on November 17, 2008

in Blogs and blogging, Books, Business Planning

Anita Campbell is giving away copies of my Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan book over at her Small Business Trends blog. She posted this offer last Friday for her birthday (nice touch) and offered five books to be given at random from…

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Number One Business Plan Book

by Tim Berry on September 11, 2008

in Blogs and blogging, Plan-as-you-go Planning, Self Promotion

I hope you’ll forgive me this post, but it took a long time writing, absorbed most of my Spring, and involved a lot of work by other people with editing, design, and so so forth. These things go up and…

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The Steven Wright Guide to Content Marketing

by Tim Berry on August 15, 2008

in Blogs and blogging, Marketing

I was delighted to see this in my Alltop view yesterday morning. I’ve been a fan of Steven Wright for years, and in this post, Brian Clark does a very nice integration of some of Steven’s one-liners with thoughts about…

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Paul at Huffington Post

by Tim Berry on April 21, 2007

in Blogs and blogging, True Stories

My son Paul Berry is now CTO of Huffington Post. Paul, now 31, had been 5 years with CharterMac and 3 years before that with Palo Alto Software. His family pictures site won people’s choice at Under the Radar of…

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