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As usual, I’m writing about whatever’s on my mind

02.16.2012 by David Murray // 8 Comments

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From the blog of a “content expert”

02.15.2012 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

"No matter what your industry is, people love to peek behind the curtain and see how the sausage is made. (How is that for a mashed up mix of two overly used cliche phrases?)"

It's real good, nitwit.

What kind of lazy tool writes a crap phrase and, instead of rewriting it, satisfies himself to tell the reader he knows it's crap? Perhaps we've identified the difference between a "content expert," and a writer.*

* Which brings to mind a mean remark my writer dad once made about a family member, who wrote a column in a local newspaper. "Son," he told me, "there's a difference between a writer and a typist."

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This is what corporate confidence sounds like!

02.14.2012 by David Murray // 2 Comments

"At times, it seems that half of any big company is desperately grabbing for publicity," says Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg, "while the other half, with equal fervor, frantically tries to keep itself under wraps."

In my latest McMurry.com blog post, I elaborate.

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