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		<title>Disaster narrowly avoided</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes just a little longer to shop these days but the results are so much more rewarding. I rarely purchase anything over $50 anymore without using my phone to check Amazon or Cnet reviews and using Redlaser to compare pricing. I&#8217;m not sure what the store personnel think at Best Buy while I enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Wave Available to Everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent announcement at today&#8217;s Google I/O in San Francisco is that Google Wave is available to anyone who wants to use it. http://wave.google.com will take anyone to the sign-in page and voila, wave away.
From personal experience, Wave has some hurdles to overcome in order to go mainstream. The same organizational mindsets one has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Increases Ability to Manage Personal Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a sharp edge that Google travels. In the quest to make everything known to man available to all instantaneously, the questions of privacy and the amassing of personal data are regularly wielded against them. On the one hand, by knowing the members history, Google is able to identify what might interest those members. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Businesses Slow Getting on the Social Media Bandwagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Citibank survey reflects the slow adoption of Social Media channels in Small Businesses. Citing a variety of reasons for the slow adoption rate, manpower and time are the two top obstacles.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media for Business to Business Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Business to Business marketers are asking the right questions: what is the ROI for a B to B organization with regards to social media campaigns? Since the primary goal of B to B is not necessarily gathering individual consumer loyalty, how can an organization capitalize on these new channels?]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Shows First Decline Since Launch, Google Reaps the Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bing, Microsoft&#8217;s new web search engine, has posted the first decline since its launch in May of this year according to Statcounter. While Yahoo met a similar fate as Bing for the month, Google has gobbled up that available market share and posted an increase for the month of September.
Bing dropped over a percentage point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Wave &#8211; A Tidal Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone here thinks Google has been resting on their collective laurels, think again. From their move into Yelp territory with Place Pages to the Microsoft smackdown of Google Docs, Google is proving that they can take the web (and the software industry) where they please (let&#8217;s hope they keep their informal corporate motto &#8220;Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Websites: Yelp – Good for You, Good for Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family and I took a road trip in late spring and ended up Yelping our way from Sacramento to Santa Fe and back.
I downloaded the Yelp iPhone app prior to heading out. Each time we pulled into a town to eat, I would search for restaurants near my “current location”. Even in the smallest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Search Optimization Tips for the General Public</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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I’ve performed a few Internet Marketing presentations for local business organizations recently. While I went into them with a bit of  trepidation (public speaking is not on MY top ten list), they turned out to be great experiences: the more the audience responds to the content, the more fun!
The main content of the presentation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Apologizes for its Customer Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe has issued a public letter apologizing for the company&#8217;s lackluster customer service. From our dealings with Adobe customer service, we can say that this comes none too soon. Typical wait times are in the hour+ category and problems are routinely left unsolved even for simple issues like registering product. Let&#8217;s hope they create as [...]]]></description>
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