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		<title>It Must be True. I Read it on the Internet!</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/09/01/it-must-be-true-i-read-it-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few things that I&#8217;ve learned on the Internet: President Obama was born in Kenya and is not an American citizen The Holocaust never happened. The Democrats tried to create &#8220;death panels&#8221; for the elderly in their health care overhaul bill The September 11 terrorist attacks were plotted and by the Bush administration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2332&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, You Can Outsource Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a persistent myth about social media and brands: Social media activities can&#8217;t be outsourced.  That the only people who can manage social media channels are employees. This is nonsense. Brands outsource all kinds of crucial day-to-day activities these days, including accounting, advertising, public relations, IT, customer service, legal, and even delivery services.  No one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2323&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Crowd-Sourcing Work in the Long Term?</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/08/20/does-crowd-sourcing-work-in-the-long-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Wikipedia about to fall over like a domino? As Newsweek noted last week: &#8220;Thousand of volunteer editors [for Wikipedia], the loyal Wikipedians who actually write, fact-check, and update all of those articles, logged off &#8211; many for good. For the first time, more contributors appeared to be dropping out than joining up. Activity on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2315&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things That Will Likely Be Obsolete Within 20 Years</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/08/18/things-that-will-likely-be-obsolete-within-20-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just for fun here is a random sampling of every day items, services and objects that I predict will be extinct within the next 20 years (or at least not being mass produced and consumed).  In other words, obsolete: Wrist watches CD players Coal DVD players Public payphones Ashton Kutcher Twitter Computer keyboards Newspapers (at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2309&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Ways Companies Screw Up Facebook</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/08/17/7-ways-companies-screw-up-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook = Commitment. There&#8217;s really no other equation that works.  Companies that jump into social media need to have a commitment to them.  That means resources: time and money.  But it also means a commitment to integrate the social channels into all of marketing and communications. Here are seven of the most common blunders companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2301&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Media Isn&#8217;t So Old Anymore</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/08/16/old-media-isnt-so-old-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is old media making a comeback? In fact, is it fair to even refer to traditional media outlets like newspapers and magazines as &#8220;old&#8221; anymore.  They have infused their online properties with interactive and multimedia elements and syndicate their content on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. For example, the New York Times and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2282&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of Arrogant Writing</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/08/12/the-danger-of-arrogant-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog Post By: Dave Yewman It happens all the time &#8211; and it&#8217;s usually an engineer who says it. During a presentation workshop I&#8217;ll go on a rant about jargon; how it kills communications; how using it is arrogant, and how much audiences hate the insider terms and silly acronyms that populate so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2286&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consistency is Crucial in Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launch, launch, launch! Facebook, Twitter, a blog and maybe even a YouTube channel. Create a lot of new content. And then&#8230; For many companies this is when social media assets start to wilt like flower gardens in August.  They launch various channels during a campaign for a new product or service and then &#8211; just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2247&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blissful Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was on vacation at a lakeside cabin in Maine. I took a long walk on the camp road &#8211; a meandering, tar strip cutting through a hemlock forest.  Pine needles and deep beds of moss covered the ground.  Mushrooms of all shapes and sizes sprouted everywhere.  Granite boulders, leftovers of the ice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2275&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet&#8217;s &#8220;Free&#8221; Problem</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2010/07/28/the-internets-free-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Findings from the 2010 Digital Future Project released this month: 49% of Internet users have tried free micro-blogging services like Twitter 0% of them would be willing to pay for it. That&#8217;s zero (Z-E-R-O) percent.  As in nobody. As Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future, noted: &#8220;Such an extreme finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=2264&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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