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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 more customers
Help employees better [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=269&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=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 create anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=258&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=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 dreary litany [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=14&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=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.
There&#8217;s a way to do it, though, that won&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=64&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best writing advice: &#8220;Keep it short, sharp and punchy&#8221;</title>
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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 Valenti, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=24&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publication guidelines are more useful 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—but it&#8217;s not the whole story. 
Many writers and editors swear by a style guide when organizing, editing and writing their publications. Well-known style guides include the Chicago Manual, the AP Stylebook and the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications. Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=22&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=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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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 counterproductive.
But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=15&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your present and your future are innovation, communication and creativity.</title>
		<link>http://timmantyla.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/hello-world/</link>
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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 binds society.&#8221; Indeed, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timmantyla.wordpress.com&blog=2404112&post=1&subd=timmantyla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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