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		<title>Dear Website, You Lost Me At Hello (&#8216;Cuz you don&#8217;t have RSS)</title>
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Congratulations, through some source or search I&#8217;ve conducted, I&#8217;ve landed on your website. I like what you have to say about the particular topic I&#8217;m currently reading. I want to hear more from you in the future, but I&#8217;m lazy, I like to have content force-fed to me, so, since you don&#8217;t seem to believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Buzzkill</title>
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For the past couple of days, there has been lots of buzz around Google&#8217;s latest attempt at social media. There have been countless reactions to the new product, from glowing praise to raving anger.
Google has dipped it&#8217;s toes in social media before, and has in most cases, completely missed the mark. Google Buzz, however, some felt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a Sad Time for Newspapers</title>
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When Al Gore invented the Internet the Internet was new, few people expected it to become as commonplace as it is today. Now that it is, many traditional media outlets are suffering the wrath of innovation. I don’t know who first said, “Change or die!” but the message can be applied to all facets of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO: Look like an Amateur on Twitter</title>
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Twitter has exploded past the mainstream growth curve and is finding its way into marketing programs that are run by people with little to no experience using social media as a community building tool with a marketing mindset.
When rookies join Twitter on behalf of the companies or programs they work for, veterans can sniff them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Think Outside the Box, You’ve Got It Wrong</title>
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I’m just spit-balling here, but I’d guess that if you looked at all of the creative and many business agencies in the world today, you’d probably find that at least half of them use the phrase “think outside the box,” or something strikingly similar. The term is a cliché. And in my opinion, the concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurants, Bars and Social Media &#8211; A Match Made in Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Brogan is a highly respected social media veteran; he has posted a great video of a discussion about social media between himself and Joe Sorge, who runs AJ Bomers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a few other restaurants in town.

Original post by Chris Brogan here
Direct link to the video here
Restaurants, Bars and Social Media – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/restaurants-bars-and-social-media-a-match-made-in-heaven/</link>
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		<title>7 FREE Marketing Tips</title>
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In a recession-driven economy, when other competitors are cutting back on their marketing plans because they are costing them too much money, you can take advantage of their slow-down by increasing your efforts &#8211; and with these free ideas, you can do it without spending any more money.
1) Start a Blog
If you do, or if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/7-free-marketing-tips/</link>
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		<title>Teaser Tweets &#8211; Good or Bad Idea?</title>
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A good friend of mine who also happens to be an up-and-coming MMA insider, has recently started actively using Twitter – partly, I claim, because of my constant prodding. He brought up an interesting point today: should you use “teaser” tweets to get people interested in something you are working on? Or are teaser tweets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/teaser-tweets-good-or-bad-idea/</link>
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		<title>Michael Carwile On Your iPhone</title>
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Thanks to the awesome work of the peeps over at Brave New Code my blog readers can now read my posts on the go on their iPhone! I am using their ridiculously awesome iPhone theme plugin for Wordpress called WPTouch. If you have an iPhone, check out my blog on it!
As an added bonus, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelcarwile.com/michael-carwile-on-your-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Private Twitter Accounts &#8211; What&#8217;s the Point?</title>
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You wouldn&#8217;t go to a party with duct tape on your mouth, so why would you make your Twitter account private?
Twitter is a social media network. Granted, social can mean a private social club, but that isn&#8217;t what Twitter is all about. Twitter is about connecting with the world, whether that&#8217;s people in your local [...]]]></description>
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