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Maybe Writing Isn’t So Obsolete After All

by Tim Berry on September 10, 2009

in Weblogs, Writing

Just a few years ago I was mourning the loss of the printed word in our media-hungry and web-hungry society. Even people I really respect, although most of them much younger than I, were starting to show cavalier disregard for the English language. I’d grimace while reading something that mistook then for [...]

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Maker or Manager: Do You Hate Meetings?

by Tim Berry on August 18, 2009

in Personal Productivity

Focus: in personal productivity, focus is power. Or maybe I should call it concentration. Have you ever borne down on a task, locked out all distractions, and gotten more done in an hour or two than you thought you could get done in a day? I have the feeling I used to do that a [...]

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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, Journalism, 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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