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		<title>&#8220;What problems do you solve for your customers?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again David Meerman Scott has posted something very useful to the PR/marketing practitioner in his Web Ink Now post: &#8220;Single most essential PR pitching tip&#8221; http://www.webinknow.com/2010/03/single-most-essential-pr-pitching-tip.html.
This is a refrain I share again and again with clients, and that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s so true&#8211;for members of the media and for your prospective customers. Even when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O, Canada! My Facebook Friends.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CMS Wire recently reported in its “Social Media Minute” that Canada is big into Facebook.  Actually, it reported in   More Figures on Facebook&#8217;s Worldwide Popularity that roughly 43% of its population is on Facebook.  I was not surprised to read this.  See, I have to thank a Canadian friend of mine for getting me on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swim, Swim, Swim –Good for You, Good for Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week two of the email newsletters to which I subscribe had a swimming theme.  That’s appropriate, considering we are at the height of summer.  Each newsletter serves a different purpose for me – one is from Trust Your Journey, which has to do with well being; the other is from Susan Finch, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Key Maker Holds the Key</title>
		<link>http://blog.stconticommunications.com/breast-cancer-wellness/the-key-maker-holds-the-key/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a hectic Friday morning, one in which I was running several errands and feeling very much in a hurry prior to starting my work routine for the day.  I had to have some keys made, so I went to the local hardware store.  I expected to simply have a key made.  I was handed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning Personality – Coach Kay Yow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, January 24, many people in the sports world were informed that North Carolina State University head women&#8217;s basketball coach, Kay Yow died of breast cancer after a very long battle with the disease.  
By all accounts, coach Kay Yow was an inspiring figure both in the world of sports and in everyday life.  No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You May Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DSJC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All right, you may cross.”  A sprite crossing guard who shepherds elementary school kids to and from my daughter’s school says these words many times each day.  The crossing guard, dressed in what usually looks like a house coat under her DayGlo yellow-green vest labeled “Crossing Guard” and wearing a red baseball cap, the tips [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolving to Keep a Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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In 2002, I wrote a short story called “Michigan, You Walk a Long Way,” and I was honored to have it chosen by Chicken Soup Enterprises for its Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body &#38; Soul book. I was doubly honored in late 2008 when the Chicken Soup people chose it as a 101 Best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolve to Buy Eco-Friendly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DSJC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you buy eco-friendly toys? Orange County&#8217;s Outdoor Education Center director, Christine Kirk, provided an article to the online parenting site, Root &#38; Sprout, where she shared her ideas for how to make buying green toys one of your New Year&#8217;s resolutions. Check it out at: http://www.rootandsprout.com/20701.html.
Now, Root &#38; Sprout put the article under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years Resolutions and World Wide Rave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions&#8211;besides blogging more frequently&#8211;is to read more books.   One book will be World Wide Rave by David Meerman-Scott, the same wizard who gave us The New Rules of Marketing &#38; PR, which you really should read, if you want to understand why and how social media works.
Anyway, World Wide Rave is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Real is the Best Way to Teach &amp; Learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were you lucky enough to have one of those teachers who brought education to life?  You know the kind, perhaps a history teacher who had your class reenact a famous scene?  Or maybe a science teacher who had you build a roller coaster then took your class to the local amusement park to shout out [...]]]></description>
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