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		<title>Agencies Can Add a Rocket Boost of Social Know-how</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you think sets apart a gold-medal effort in social media from a mediocre one? Is it ideas?  Passion?  Knowledge?  Creativity? Likely those are factors, but most often the difference is more pedestrian: Resources. Most marketing and communications departments continue to be underfunded and understaffed when it comes to social media programs.  It&#8217;s difficult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3632&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Timeline is the New Tombstone</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/30/facebook-timeline-is-the-new-tombstone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are more dead people than living.  And their numbers are increasing.  The living are getting rarer.&#8221; - Eugene Ionesco, playwright People hate the Facebook Timeline. While many of Facebook&#8217;s most prominent changes over the years have caused a lot of  hand wringing, none of them have caused as visceral a response as the Timeline. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3620&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Decides to Kill Privacy</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/26/google-decides-to-kill-privacy/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/26/google-decides-to-kill-privacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when Google adopted &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Evil&#8221; as its unofficial motto?  You&#8217;ll find that little ditty at a yard sale next to a Bay City Rollers album and a skinny leather tie decorated like a piano. Because this week Google announced it was drastically changing its privacy policy and the side of sharing &#8211; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3612&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Rational on SOPA</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/25/getting-rational-on-sopa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danny Goldberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Meerman Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erick Schonfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PIPA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act (known as SOPA) has jumped the shark.  SOPA and its companion bill Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) were both shelved recently by Congress and the Senate after a frenzied protest by dozens of websites and Internet companies including Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. The goal of the bills [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3605&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling the Woes of Social Measurement</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/20/tackling-the-woes-of-social-measurement/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/20/tackling-the-woes-of-social-measurement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Measurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Monitoring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest woe in social media is measurement.  No one has figured it out.  There are no standards.  There are hundreds of measurement tools.  There are all kinds of metrics and statistics that can be measured. The great thing about social media is that you can measure everything, but the worst part of social media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3596&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the Heck is SOPA?</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/18/what-the-heck-is-sopa/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/18/what-the-heck-is-sopa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re online today &#8211; or on Twitter or Facebook &#8211; you&#8217;ve likely seen the acronym SOPA.  You may have also noticed that several website including Google, Wikipedia and Yahoo have altered their sites to protest SOPA.  Check out the blacked out Google logo above. What&#8217;s going on? SOPA stands for the Stop Online Privacy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3589&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for a Social Media Crisis</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/17/5-tips-for-a-social-media-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/17/5-tips-for-a-social-media-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change.org]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can take this to the bank: If you are a brand then you&#8217;ll experience a social media crisis. It&#8217;s inevitable. Look at it this way.  No brand in existence &#8211; not even the most popular and best-loved brands in the world &#8211; has ever avoided a negative phone call, a snarky email, a compliant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3583&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Facebook the New Email?</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/05/is-facebook-the-new-email/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/05/is-facebook-the-new-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, email is beating Facebook, but not by as wide a margin as you might imagine.  And let&#8217;s keep in mind that Facebook was founded in 2004 and email was invented way back in 1972.  So email has a three decade head start. I&#8217;ll also acknowledge upfront that comparing Facebook and email isn&#8217;t &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3576&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Will be the Year of Social Catch-Up</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/03/2012-will-be-the-year-of-social-catch-up/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2012/01/03/2012-will-be-the-year-of-social-catch-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Managment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media moves like the Flash. Zip!  Bang!  Boom! It&#8217;s fast &#8211; really fast.  Stop paying attention for a couple of days and you feel like you&#8217;ve missed an entire movement.  There&#8217;s always innovation &#8211; new technology, cool sharing tools, new ways to monitor and manage.  Heck, there are new platforms and applications seemingly dropping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3569&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Hates You</title>
		<link>http://hightalk.net/2011/12/19/santa-hates-you/</link>
		<comments>http://hightalk.net/2011/12/19/santa-hates-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gfsnell3</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hightalk.net/?p=3548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As I often say: the first certainty in social media is that you&#8217;ll make a mistake.  The second certainty &#8211; especially if you&#8217;re a business or a brand &#8211; is that some know-it-all social media expert will call you out on it. So here&#8217;s a bit of Christmas fun for us all.  Happy Holidays! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hightalk.net&amp;blog=6188279&amp;post=3548&amp;subd=hightalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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