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		<title>New Recession Friendly Fee Schedule for Social Media Consulting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m updating my consulting fees to reflect the recession. I now offer onsite trainings, and phone consulting to organize a strategy. See below:

FlashPoint Social Media is now offering a great new program designed to provide a low cost alternative to expensive social media campaigns, by utilizing the resources you already have available to you. Learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 out of 10 of my new followers want to tell me how to EXPLODE my Twitter following</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, it&#8217;s getting a bit out of hand: 

That&#8217;s not even counting the 50 or 60 messages below that want to tell me how to &#8220;EXPLODE MY TWITTER ACCOUNT BY 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 NEW FOLLOWERS PER DAY!!!!111!!11!!1!!!1 ASK ME HOW!!!!111!!!1!!!!!!!! http://www.bit.ly/1234&#8221; yet most of them have around 50-60 followers. 
 


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		<title>Today&#8217;s Social Media Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worthwhile reading for Monday:
Here Comes Twitter Spam and How to Fight It:
A spam-less Twitter feed might just be too good to be true. Spam is becoming an increasing problem on Twitter and something has to be done to separate the wheat from the chaff. Spammers are using Twitter as a tool by replying to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweetzi, simple real-time twitter search and trend discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across Tweetzi in a press release today, it&#8217;s a neat little search. It&#8217;s not that much different than regular Twitter search, there are a few things that make it useful though. For one there&#8217;s a &#8220;play&#8221; button you can hit that will automatically update a certain keyword.
For example, I searched &#8220;pizza&#8221; :

You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress Stripping out your line break?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to deal with the issue several hours today of Wordpress stripping out any line break code I tried. I assume it&#8217;s some sort of bug, although it seems to be happen with all versions of wordpress. It seems to happen after you left-align a picture. Anyway, I read multiple blogs and none of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Facebook Applications See 25 Percent Drop In Traffic Since Redesign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This came across my Twitter account this morning and it was something I was worried about. Applications are seeing a drop in use across the board. I&#8217;m not surprised a day after the redesign, I lost things our company developed, and I couldn&#8217;t find other apps I use. It&#8217;s not well pointed out that apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of Peep fun for Easter weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrewsauter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey for all you peep lovers out there, check this out.  I was looking for cool Easter basket stuff for the kid. Since I prefer to do all shopping from my geekosphere she is stuck with what I can find online.  So  her basket contains Season 1 of Sliders, a cool chicken that lays bubble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I&#8217;ve been saying for awhile, companies know that social media is important but are still having a disconnect that they need to invest money into it. From Advertising Age:
Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV:

Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Tells Marketers They Should Not Buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors of Google Talks for Twitter Persist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrewsauter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like there&#8217;s some rumblings about Google buying Twitter. I&#8217;ve been hearing about this on my Twitter account for a few days now:
From: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/rumors-of-google-talks-for-twitter-persist/

It seems that rumors that Google is in talks to buy Twitter just won’t go away.
Chatter that the search giant and the microblogging start-up were holding deal talks resurfaced last week, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Key Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Fails</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrewsauter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation from the Web 2.0 Expo: Why Social Media Marketing Fails- And How to Fix it . Can&#8217;t agree more. I&#8217;m not even sure if we should be calling it marketing or doing &#8220;marketing campaigns&#8221; since that&#8217;s not what building relationships or producing thought leadership content in social media is about. I [...]]]></description>
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