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		<title>Publication guidelines – sample mission, goals and outline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sample mission and goals Below are the mission and goals, as well as a sample outline, for an online sales training and reference project I developed for NuStep, Inc. in 2007-2008. These were included in the publication guidelines I wrote to help guide and develop the project. Many of the goals are quoted or adapted from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=277&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can I help improve your communications?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can serve your business by providing communications services with the following benefits: Save you money Develop, write, edit and manage publications to effectively communicate to your audiences&#8211;employees, customers, suppliers Use simple, clear language to improve marketing, technical, web, training and other communications Use single sourcing, wikis, blogs and other technologies to streamline communications and gain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=269&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity relies on many mental abilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I think about creativity, the more it looks like my ideas about creativity have been stereotyped and limited. For one thing, creativity doesn&#8217;t work all by itself. No mental ability works in a bubble, though we may think of them that way to more easily make sense of them. For example, how could someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=258&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some mental abilities increase as we age</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a Wall Street Journal article, &#8220;The Upside of Aging,&#8221; our mental abilities keep growing as we age. American culture celebrates youth and many human abilities that decline with age. But contrary to prevalent beliefs, some mental functions actually increase in some areas while decreasing in others. The aging brain is subject to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=14&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why blog?</title>
		<link>http://timmantyla.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/blog-posts-can-spur-creativity-and-a-feeling-of-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benefits of blogging Blogging helps writers in many ways. These include: igniting creativity capturing ideas good writing practice promoting your product or service improving your health Blog posts can be anything you like I love to blog. But so many of life&#8217;s necessities and projects vacuum time away from other fun stuff&#8211;and that includes blogging. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=64&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best writing advice: &#8220;Keep it short, sharp and punchy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://timmantyla.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/writing-advice-keep-it-short-sharp-and-punchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be the single best piece of writing advice I have ever heard (and which I cannot find any reference to online). It came by way of my professor for Persuasive Communication, Dr. Martin (whose first name I can&#8217;t recall), at the University of Michigan around 1982.  He said the quote came from Jack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=24&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publication guidelines are better than a style guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A style guide is vital for writers and editors when producing publications and other writing projects. Style guides serve as documentation, created by the editors, that helps guide editors and others who edit, design, write for or otherwise contribute to the publication. Sometimes, though, a style guide alone can’t do enough. What is a style [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=22&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is creativity, and how can you tap into it?</title>
		<link>http://timmantyla.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/what-is-creativity-and-how-can-you-tap-into-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hip pocket definition: creativity is putting two things together that you haven&#8217;t put together before.   How about garlic mustard ice cream? Not the tastiest snack in the world—at least, to Americans—but the idea might make a kid laugh! That&#8217;s an example of creativity. In the world of snacks, this idea may be useless or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=15&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your present and your future are innovation, communication and creativity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mantyla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what kind of world we would live in without innovation, communication or creativity? There could be no such world. Nature itself relies on all three. They are integral to its being, and form the basis of evolution. And they are integral to human society. As Neitzche says, &#8220;Kindness is the golden chain that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2404112&amp;post=1&amp;subd=timmantyla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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