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07.30.2009 by David Murray // 2 Comments

Let's see:

I blog here, I blog at Huffington Post, and now I'm blogging on communication at the ContentWise website and on executive communication at Vital Speeches of the Day's cool new site.

I'll cross-post here the relevant stuff that I post elsewhere.

Like my latest Vital Speeches entry, about the speechwriter who pats himself on the back. (It makes a sickening sound.)

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Twitter, act like you’ve been there before

07.29.2009 by David Murray // 34 Comments

"Bill Stoller is now following you on Twitter!"

What's with the exclamation point? I mean, I could see if it was, "Tiger Woods is now following you on Twitter!" But Bill Stoller? Never heard of the guy.

Coaches tell football players not to celebrate like goofs every time they get into the end zone. "Act like you've been there before," is the point they make.

Now that Twitter is a part of our lives—however banal and degrading a part of our lives it may be—what would be wrong with:

"You've got a new Twitter follower: Bill Stoller."

(Stole 'er? I never even met 'er!)

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Journalism will bounce back; so can I get an advance?

07.29.2009 by David Murray // 5 Comments

Drinking last night with a veteran journo who now works for the Associated Press in London.

On the usual subject, he expressed the usual hope, to the effect that he I thought public will realize what it's missing and journalism will would mount a return.

"I agree one hundred percent," I replied. "It's just that I don't know if it will take the public two years to realize the consequences of no journalism, or forty."

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