Investigative report on Colorado Internet.

My colleagues on the @denverpost business desk an I spent the last few weeks of 2019 exploring where broadband Internet is and isn't in Colorado and what it will take to get to 100% access. Read about what we learned in part 1 and 2 of our series "Up to Speed." (mini thread) pic.twitter.com/7AoAbxpYfB

— Joe Rubino (@RubinoJC) December 29, 2019

Karl Rove here in Denver, 2004. 

Bishop Robert Barron interview.

SHARE Interview with Bishop Robert Barron: https://t.co/32JXR53MTN via @YouTube #Trend #ThinkSpot #WordOnFire #Catholic #SocratesCafes #CSLewis #Philosophy #Theology #Plato #Aristotle #Christ #JesusChrist #LOGOS

— John Scott Wren (303)861-1447 Start now: call me! (@JohnSWren) December 26, 2019

New online dialogue group.

Colorado metro districts:

I have a question, what about special districts like the SCFD? Have you looked at them? The Denver Library tried to get their own tax, voters wisely turned it down.

Great job of reporting, David Migoya, thanks!

I'm Denver Post reporter David Migoya and I just finished an 8-month investigation into Colorado metro districts. Ask me anything! from r/Denver

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My son John...

Media Release, Thursday, December 5, 2019

Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc
1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver, CO 80210
www.SmallBizChamber.org   (303)861-1447 

Contact: John Wren, (303)861-1447
(Media please request cell.)

MEDIA ADVISORY
December 5, 2019

Denver, 12/5/19--Long-time community activist John Wren announced last week a new campaign to strengthen the grassroots. "If we are successful it could have a big impact on the 2020 elections and beyound," said Wren. As promised last week, this is the first of the 2nd Thursday media advisory to track progress posted on www.JohnWren.com," said Wren.

"I don't want to mislead anyone, although we have a very active online presense and lots of follows and likes, our Small Business Chamber is still a one-man band. I'm looking for volunteers, we hope to interview, select, and train volunteers as we move towards Ben Franklin's birthday January 17, celebrations that started here in Denver in 2003 for his 300th at Denver Thomas Jefferson High School.

"We will have much more to announce next week, after the first week of operation of our new IDEA.OODA Cafe Online Meetup, which will be free to join until Ben Franklin's birthday, a place to share experience about startup, check it out: www.Facebook.com/groups/IDEA.OODA.Cafe.

"No rsvp is ever require for our free, open public meetings, but an rsvp for our new IDEA.OODA Cafe would be very, very helpful this next couple of weeks as we become more a part of the Commons on Champa for our Friday gathering, see https://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber, concluded Wren. 

John S. Wren, MBA is the founder, President and CEO of the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc is a Colorado not-for-profit corporation. www.SmallBizChamber.org . (303)861-1447

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Media Advisory at 12 Noon

My media advisory will be posted here today and each Friday until the 2020 Presidential election.

Media Advisory

Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc
1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver, CO 80210
www.SmallBizChamber.org   (303)861-1447 

Contact: John Wren, (303)861-1447
(Media please request cell.)

MEDIA ADVISORY
November 27, 2019

Long-time community activist John Wren announced today a new campaign to strengthen the grassroots. "If we are successful it could have a big impact on the 2020 elections and beyound," said Wren. He promised a media advisory each Thursday to track progress. "For more information please call me at (303)861-1447.

Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc is a Colorado not-for-profit corporation. Wren is the founder and serves as the current President.

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Happy birthday Allie!

Celebrating Allie Wren's 40th birthday at Dazzell's!

Act I--

Allie arrives at Dazzell's:



Act II-- More music.


Act III-- Here's the food:

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Have you seen this yet? Going on Thanksgiving?

"It's good to talk."

A Love Letter-- In the beginning.

A Love Letter

It was the best.

It was the worst.

It is still the best and the worst. It's always that way. The very best, nothing better, always has some of the worst in it.

It all began when Janet and I took the train to Chicago just before Thanksgiving in 1964.

It was our senior year, our football team had just lost our last game of the season, if we'd won, which we should have, I'd be staying to play in the playoffs for the state championship. 

The entire TJ (Denver Thomas Jefferson High School) yearbook staff was being chaparoned by Mrs. Shapiro (Sandy's, the editor's, mom) and Mr. Art Mason, an English teacher and the yearbook sponsor for the 4th time; he and dozens of students had been documenting the school since the Fall of 1960 when it was written up in Life Magazine, it opened as part of the space race spawned by the Russians launch of Sputnic.

All this comes to mind right now, as it has every year at this time, today is the 55th Sunday before Thanksgiving, because my annual memories of getting to know Janet on the trip to Chicago, the best, also marks the worst, the aniversary of my going to war with 8 of my team mates and their defenders, a fight that went public and eventually involved the Denver school board, who eventually made a decision with my future father-in-law protesting their meeting (captured in the Denver Post) and the superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

For years I'd read through the letters that were sent to me by friends and strangers encouraging me to keep fighting. I eventually kept them in a gold box that got thrown away when Janet and I divorced.

This year, I'm going to write this. For better or worse.

Want to start? Pivot? Stop? Listen to 1) PAYG, 2) YouTube, 3) Facebook. Then call me!

My next post here on JohnWren.com will be a love letter, here's why:

I've been working on what I'm doing now (SBCC, Socrates Cafe, OODA Cafe, Franklin Circles, etc. etc.) since November 15, 1979 when pop died. https://Facebook.com/JohnEWren 

 Next to Pop's death the 3rd biggest event in my life, other than Janet and I marrying in 1967 and the births and lives of our 4 kids, happened the Monday before Thanksgiving in 1964, I'll tell you more in my next post here, I'm about to write a love letter inspired just now as I did these 3 things below I've share with you on Facebook.

Would you help me? If you take what I've posted below seriously and actually do the 3 things that are suggested yourself, I'd be very, very interested in the results you might obtain. PLEASE call me or see me at one of our free SBCC meetings and let me know if you'd rate the below 3-steps on Rotten Tomatoes, if it's a 9 or 10 let me know with your comment here, otherwise call or email your rating and suggestions to me, ok? John Wren  John@SmallBizChamber.org 

Now I'm going to start the love letter...

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Jordan Peterson On Loneliness and The Importance of Human Connections

Jerry Seinfeld HBO Debut - 1981

Performing Therapy On Yourself: Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization

Jordan Peterson Explains Psychoanalytic Theory

Denver 1987/ PLEASE FORWARD

Watch, then share.

New! Group forming that will use this book to get started.

I had several conversations with Dr. Langs before he passed away, and I've read many of his books.

He wanted to make the benefits of psychotherapy available to the average person for true emotional sobriety.

If you make be interested in a study group that would start with a study of this book for 4 or 5 weeks, please let me know and I'll fill you in on the details. Call if you have any questions.

John Wren
(303)861-1447

Socrates Cafe Tonight in Denver

Socrates Cafe, open discussion, Trinity Church, 18th & Broadway, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

Let's talk today:

This afternoon (11-18) and each Monday I have "Office Hours" at 1311 York Street, 3rd Floor. It is a social gathering for newcomers to recovery and anyone interested in a spiritual way of living.

This evening (Monday, 11-18) there is a Socrates Cafe in the Denver Tech Center, just west of I25 on Arapahoe Road, for more about it and optional (most don't, walk-ins are welcome) rsvp, see https://Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

John Wren

PBS Fronline "AI (Artifical Intellegence) Report"

Let's you and I (yes, you reading this right now) talk about this soon, ok? Each Mondays (today) and Fridays I have Office Hours, see https://Meetup.com/Franklin-Circles and I'm at Socrates Cafe tonight (Monday, 11/18), Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday see https://Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

On David Hume by Adam Smith.

From James Fieser's (jfieser@utm.edu) Hume Archives:

LETTER FROM ADAM SMITH, LL.D.
TO WILLIAM STRAHAN, ESQ.
Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, Nov. 9. 1776

Dear Sir,

It is with a real, though a very melancholy, pleasure that l sit down to give you some account of the behaviour of our late excellent friend, Mr. Hume, during his last illness.

Though, in his own judgment, his disease was mortal and incurable, yet he allowed himself to be prevailed upon, by the entreaty of his friends, to try what might be the effects of a long journey. A few days before he set out, he wrote that account of his own life, which, together with his other papers, he has left to your care. My account, therefore, shall begin where his ends.

He set out for London towards the end of April, and at Morpeth met with Mr. John Home and myself, who had both come down from London on purpose to see him, expecting to have found him at Edinburgh. Mr. Home returned with him, and

OODA Cafe Startup Show

Under Construction

Small Business 

Chamber of 

Commerce, Inc 

(SBCC)

1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver, CO 80210

Twitter @IDEACafe www.SmallBizChamber.org 

Contact: John Wren (303)861-1447

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 15, 2018

AT LAST! HELP FOR NEW CAREERS, NEW PROJECTS, CAMPAIGNS, AND NEW BUSINESSES USING JOHN BOYD'S OODA LOOP.

Live progress report each Friday afternoon at the Commons on Champa, join us! John Wren

DENVER-- 11/15/19 John Wren announced today a new effort to help individuals create new Good Work. "It's under construction," said Wren, "please watch for our new, improved Startup Show coming soon, and join us live for a progress report and dialogue each Friday, 2:30 p.m. at the Commons on Champa." For more information see https://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber. 

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WSJ asks how phone calls could be improved:

I was with Bell Telephone when we coined the term "telemarketing" and spent millions to reposition "telephone sales" which at the time was the most hated term in the English language. It worked. 

I then started one of the first telemarketing agencies in the US. We did projects for large and small businesses. My articles appeared in the first issues of Telemarketing Magazine, and I spoke at local and national business association meetings. 

Bell Labs research and my own experience were the cornerstones for training  on this very topic. Main point: put personality in the call. Arthur Godfrey was the first to do this with the radio, his show sold truckloads of Lipton Tea. 

When asked why he was so effective, Godfrey said, "I imagine the little old lady sitting in front of her radio in a rocking chair and I speak directly to her."  Works on phone, too, as I learned training hundreds of professionals how to do it. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phone-call-isnt-dead-its-evolving-11571457605?commentId=a5be51f6-0c2d-4547-be05-bd4706d5603c

Gen X/ Millennials/GenZ Defined:

How should we pray?

LORD'S PRAYER, THE:

By: Kaufmann Kohler

Table of Contents

• Original Form and Meaning.
• Relation to Messianic Expectation.

Name given by the Christian world to the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples (Matt. vi. 9-13; Luke xi. 1-4). According to Luke the teaching of the prayer was suggested by one of Jesus' disciples who, on seeing him holding communion with God in prayer, asked him to teach them also to pray, as John the Baptist had similarly taught his disciples a certain form of

Then and now.

Jessica Lang. Above, 1991 when she won the Academy Award for leading actress Blue Sky with Tommy Lee Jones, and yesterday in Sunday New York Times. 

Review Small Business Chamber of Commerce Inc, if it's a 4 or 5, post here, if less than than instead post here as a comment or email me and we'll fix it, ok? :-) Thanks!

Pope Francis

seems to me Pope Francis is following the instructions of his namesake St. Francis, and encouraging me and you to do the same: Pope Francis endorses claim that US Christians are engaged in ‘ecumenism of hatred’ | News | LifeSite https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-endorses-claim-that-us-christians-are-engaged-in-ecumenism-of-hatred

John S Wren, MBA+++ Life's short, start now!: BYLAWS OF BEN FRANKLIN'S SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF...

We are going to try this again:

John S Wren, MBA+++ Life's short, start now!: BYLAWS OF BEN FRANKLIN'S SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF...: BYLAWS OF BEN FRANKLIN'S SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INC. DRAFT-- TO BE ADOPTED BY THE FOUNDING BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARTICLE I...

Thanks @lilystyson and @ErinOtoole1! You two pros know how to turn an interview into a conversation. I appreciate that. https://t.co/68dcC4CgPA

— Tina Griego (@tinagriego) September 18, 2019

Startup Show

We talk about startup, each morning live by 10 a.m. Monday thru Friday on our Facebook Page, where members post information about what they do. To be a member "Visit Group" there now or anytime, post an introduction of yourself (memberships are all personal) check it out: https://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber

Photo: Commons on Champa, here in Denver right across the street from the RTD Convention Center and Theatre District Stop. We meet there each Friday at 2:30 p.m. for the IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop, free. Questions? Call (303)861-1447 PLEASE SHARE

Robert Langs last talk.

1:52:00 Robert Langs

AARP/ Library of Congress: Potentials for Vital Aging.

Startup Weak or Strong?

Topic today on Startup Show, free Monday thru Friday, live by 10 a.m. To be a startup catalyst for your neighborhood where you live or work, become a member by clicking "Visit Group" on our Facebook Page and then doing a Facebook Watch Party with your Facebook friends. We will contact you with an invitation to be with us at an IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop. Check it out at https://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber Questions? call (303)861-1447

"You cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person." Ludwig Wittgenstein

How to Do More Good Work: Love HP, Love Neighbor.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Want to be a Startup Catalyst for your local community? Join our IDEA Cafe Meetup Group, we will help you start an IDEA Cafe Startup Workshop with your local chamber, club, association, college, and community newspaper.

Join us now, while it's still free:

IDEA Cafe Meetup Public group · 7 members Join Group Sponsored by Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc. www.SmallBizChamber.org PARDON OUR DUST, REMODELING THIS SITE. JOIN NOW WHILE IT'S STILL FREE....

1993 S1E1 Startup Show (was TV Journal.)

Posted on Twitter:

John Wren's TV Journal 1st Show, September 23, 1993. Like it? https://t.co/h88WNKEYRH via @YouTube @IDEACafe

— John S Wren +++ Start! (@JohnSWren) August 31, 2019

Are you a psychotherapist?

I am writing an article, in your psychotherapy practice: 1) Do you use Lang's Adaptive Psychotherapy, yes or no?  2) Briefly, why or why not? 3) open to personal interview?

For more about Robert Langs see the Wikipedia article about him and/or the YouTube this video of his lecture at the New York Psychoanalytic Society at The New School.

Robert Lang's last lecture: Resuscitating Freud's First Paradigm of Psychoanalysis https://youtu.be/EmIrgFfeEFk

I posted this on Twitter today:

I'm writing article, if you practice psychotherapy: 1) Do you use Lang's Adaptive Psychotherapy, yes or no? 2) Briefly, why or why not? 3) open to personal interview? @cnalive @CatholicPsych @CCharitiesUSA @miptherapy @APA @PsychToday  Wikipedia "Robert Langs." https://t.co/Tz6yIppRf5 Please RT/Share

— John S Wren +++ Start! (@JohnSWren) August 31, 2019

Meditation: Why can't we all get along?

Gun Safety Town Hall

Encouragement

Poetry intended to encourage those who think all is lost. Listen:https://pray-as-you-go.org/player/prayer/2019-08-25

Who has encouraged you? Who have you encouraged?

Encouragement possible topic for Socrates Cafe tonight at the University of Denver? Join us? More info and rsvp at https://Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society PLEASE SHARE!

Photo: President Carter kept this on his desk in the White House. 

New Practice Resources for Startups.

PRACTICE RESOURCES

(RECOVER) Social Gathering. Mondays at 1:30 p.m. Walk-ins only,“a time and place where new people might bring their problems… to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.” From  BB P. 159. This month at 1311 York St, 3rd Fl. Denver www.DACCAA.org

(THINK) Socrates Circle. We choose a topic, share our thoughts, ask each other questions. Saturdays, 6:30 p.m.University of

The Philosopher: Wittgenstein Tolstoy and the The Gospel in Brief (...

The Philosopher: Wittgenstein Tolstoy and the The Gospel in Brief (...: From The Philosopher, Volume LXXXIX No. 1 Spring 2001   WITTGENSTEIN, TOLSTOY and the GOSPEL IN BRIEF   By Bill Schardt and...

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Bishop Barron on "The Shawshank Redemption"

New! Society of Citizen Journalists. Join us!

Society of Citizen Journalists Closed group · 1 member Join Group

New name for Startup Show:

Benjamin Franklin Junto Questions:

• Next
 
• Previous
 
• Contents

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Standing Queries for the Junto

Printed in Benjamin Franklin, Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, ed. Benjamin Vaughan, (London, 1779), pp. 533-6; also draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Previous question, to be answer’d at every meeting.

Have you read over these queries this morning, in order to consider what you might have to offer the Junto [touching] any one of them? viz. 1. Have you met with any thing in the author you last read, remarkable, or

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