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	<description>Random obvious opinions that are entirely my own. I hope you disagree with every one of them.</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to stop growing bigger ears and start growing bigger hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Brogan coined the phrase &#8220;grow bigger ears&#8221; and for the past two years or so, as brands got comfortable with social media, it was more important for them to listen more than it was to jump out and converse with us. For those brands that got social media early on, they are already listening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentor me this, mentor me that</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never had a formal mentor arrangement with anyone. It wasn&#8217;t for lack of trying, but perhaps I&#8217;ve always associated with folks who weren&#8217;t closers. And when feeling closed upon by my &#8220;mentors,&#8221; I backed away. Perhaps that is the way these things are supposed to work; a support system of bumper rails without risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The complete Olympic Games include the Paralympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: @Neenz just published the Paralympics page at Alltop.com last night, Mar 5. If you know of or write a blog on the Paralympics, submit it here to be included.
I first got schooled in the Paralympic Games from Kim* during a telephone conversation my first week on the job back in 1996. For those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media is just replacing the journey, not the destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started this morning with a simple tweet from Shannon Paul:
Airports really aren&#8217;t as fun as they could be :-/
More accurately, I tweeted back, that airports aren&#8217;t as much fun as they USED to be. And then it hit me that they aren&#8217;t fun anymore because we have made travel all about the destination rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embrace silly time-wasting activity as a part of being productive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a couple of months now since the life coaches and go-getters pushed out their brand of RAH RAH RAH and GO! GO! GO! for 2010. We&#8217;ve seen  folks choose keywords for their life, new resolution for the year, non-resolution for the year, themes instead of resolutions and all sorts of various predictions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Is Not About Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was researching on some history and came across an article that I had written for a paper version of NARMS Today back in 2005. I thought I would share. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed re-visiting it.
The week before the NARMS 2005 Conference, I visited my son at Miami [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why boomers are hesitant to adopt social media tools for serious business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran out of coffee filters the other day. Not a big deal, I&#8217;ll just hike to Kroger and get some more. When I got there, I saw the empty peghook that once held my filters. Moreover, there was a red tag on the hook informing me that this product would be discontinued.
Here&#8217;s why this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something serious is rumbling in Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk is one thing. Money is quite another.
A couple years ago, this thing called Twitter popped up on the landscape. Sure, it was a lot of fun and pretty much a waste of time. The kids in the company took to it right away and started following each other, tapping out little notes on what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 things I resolve to NOT do in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After thinking a bit about what sort of New Year&#8217;s Resolutions I needed to make a few days ago, I decided that I would put a list of five things together that I will NOT do for 2010.
Here goes, in reverse order of importance (IMHO):
5. I will not use free software or services
I have come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch gets the Internet&#8230; really, he does</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
My BFF Rupert Murdoch* has been taking some hits lately about him wanting to block Google from indexing his sites and putting up pay walls. I understand his reasoning and don&#8217;t think he is too far off the mark. In order to explain my thinking, I have an analogy.
Say you own a small grocery store. [...]]]></description>
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