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		<title>Twitter Users Have Not So Hidden Agendas When Following Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter users choose to follow certain companies for a reason. “Subscribers, Fans, and Followers: Twitter X-Factors” indicates the largest single percentage of users who follow a company, brand, or association do so because they have a desire to get updates on future products. Another 32 percent, the second largest percentage, want to get more information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/361</link>
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		<title>Time to take a breath and ask why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The excitement around marketing automation systems and the extended lead nurturing activities they enable shows no sign of abating within the B2B community.  And that’s a great thing. These multi-faceted tools are enabling Marketers to delivering more relevant, timely and – ultimately &#8211; more impactful information to their prospect base, monitor prospect’s every electronic “footstep”, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/481</link>
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		<title>The Web: Extinct or Evolved?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, caused a stir in the technology world when he declared the web “dead” in the magazine’s September cover story. Its demise, according to Anderson, stems from the growing use of simpler, sleeker services such as apps and smartphones. He writes: &#8220;Over the past few years, one of the most important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/445</link>
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		<title>More Businesses Acquiring Customers from Social Media Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 1 billion people are linked into social networks, but business-to-business (BtoB) marketers have struggled to prove the ROI from social technologies until recently. According to a recent survey by Regus, marketers are now seeing an influx of new customer acquisition through Web 2.0 efforts. Nearly half of small businesses worldwide have acquired a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/439</link>
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		<title>Communications Industry Forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast 2004 -2014, The Communications Industry spending is on pace to increase 3.5% in 2010 and post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.1% in the 2009-2014 period to $1.416 trillion, driven by a gradual economic recovery, advances in digital technology, and secular trends impacting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/438</link>
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		<title>Arketi Web Watch: Firstdata.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s Arketi Web Watch post, we look at Firstdata.com. Though the website certainly is well designed, there are several elements that need to be taken into consideration. Homepage The homepage is absolutely gorgeous. However, with the exception of the navigation, logo and footer, the entire homepage is in Flash. This is not SEO friendly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/388</link>
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		<title>Kudos To The McAfee PR Team: McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities™ Release Scores!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today McAfee released its Most Dangerous Celebrities™ list. This is a very savvy PR strategy for a company that does not often land mainstream, national (or international) press coverage. A wonderful tie-in to pop culture while advancing both a BtoB and BtoC message &#8212; using security technology to avoid cybercriminals. By the way, Cameron Diaz [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/429</link>
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		<title>Customer Service Has Found Itself on the Back Burner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given today’s economic environment, consumers are taking extra care in deciding just how to spend their money. Though it has always been important, studies show that customer service has recently taken on a stronger role in the world of the consumer, and is more likely to influence a sale than ever before. Sixty-one percent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/372</link>
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		<title>Marketers are NOT Crazy, They do Get the Short End of the Corporate Stick!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hosfort of BtoB magazine made every marketer smile with today’s article on Accenture’s “Onward and Upward: How Marketers Are Refocusing the Front Office for Growth” report. The research is not really rocket science for anyone who has worked in or with corporate marketing teams – they have insufficient budgets, skills shortages and inadequate tools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/380</link>
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		<title>Arketi Web Watch: Starbucks.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this installment of Arketi Web Watch we taking a look at Starbucks.com. The Starbucks site does a few things very well. However, like many large consumer sites, there are numerous design inconsistencies. Let&#8217;s dive in. There are some really nice things happening above the fold on the homepage. The global navigation has gorgeous typography; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/344</link>
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		<title>Marketing vs IT? Who really owns the customer experience?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was eating lunch with some colleagues the other day, and we were all complaining about the customer experience and actual TV service provided by the cable or satellite TV service providers we used. Interestingly, three of the four of us had different providers, but we all equally disliked our providers. I noted that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting Telecommuters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can thank telecommuters for easing traffic congestion and reducing smog in our communities. But, in the coming months and years, this growing population may be adding new challenges to our jobs as btob marketers. According to a recent Forrester Research report, more than 40 percent of all information technology workers in the U.S., Canada [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/330</link>
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		<title>Marketers Direct Lead Generation Budgets toward the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the poor economy in 2009, marketers significantly cut their lead generation budgets in order to save as much money as possible. Fortunately, now that the economic crisis is beginning to turn around, companies are beginning to redirect their budgets toward acquiring new customers. This time around, however, companies are directing their lead generation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/327</link>
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		<title>Research suggests strong tie between blogging behavior and personal influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an active blogger, Arketi is excited to report that blogging is slowly proving its worth. According to recent research we’ve seen, blogging helps improve the performance of marketing programs for new products and services by reaching “influentials.” Influentials, as you may suspect, are the people who spread their opinions to neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/298</link>
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		<title>Web Video: A Business Must Have</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most effective new-media platforms to emerge in the past decade has been online video, and the stats prove it. According to ComScore, a source of digital marketing intelligence, U.S. internet users watched 178 million videos in the month of April alone. As both production and delivery technologies have advanced to make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/293</link>
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		<title>Where is the ROI on Twitter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good question. According to BtoB Magazine’s online survey of nearly 400 U.S. marketers, almost half of survey respondents expressed dissatisfaction with Twitter’s ability to generate quantifiable ROI. That being said, it’s important to note that a majority (approximately 70 percent) of survey participants acknowledged only devoting 30 minutes to their respective Twitter streams. While Twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/288</link>
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		<title>Specialized Trade Pubs Survive Internet Boom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study from the Center For Media Research, the Internet has challenged the usefulness of trade publications in almost every industry sector. While not particularly surprising, the Canadian-based study could potentially provide insight into the Internet’s impact on trade publications in the U.S. marketplace. Debunking common beliefs on the increasing dominance the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/281</link>
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		<title>Very solid BtoB ad from 3M</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very strong ad. Great use of copy. Whitespace. And a visual that says it all. Source: http://scottrope.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/3mmoneyglass1.jpg Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/276</link>
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		<title>Finally . . . website is one word!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news coming out of the Associated Press in the form of updates to its AP Stylebook (the grammar, definitions, use cases and rules bible for journalist and PR folks). After about 10+ years of getting it wrong &#8212; yes AP had it wrong &#8212; &#8220;website&#8221; is now one word! To read about the 41 other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/269</link>
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		<title>How Relevant is Comparing BtoB Marketing to BtoC Marketing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning’s eMarketer Daily email contained an interesting article on BtoB marketers’ use social media. This article’s comparison of BtoB social media usage to that of their  BtoC counterparts seems slightly flawed. Those who are true experts in BtoB marketing understand  marketing in this environment is drastically different from marketing to consumers. Assuming BtoB and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/261</link>
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		<title>We Are Family, Finally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cain and Abel-like relationship between marketers and their sales teams appears to have gone the way of the horse and buggy, according to a recently-released industry survey by BtoB and a marketing automation provider. While marketers still face their share of challenges according to the “B2B Marketer Skills Snapshot Survey,” most respondents stated that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/247</link>
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		<title>50% of BtoB&#8217;s will have marketing automation by 2015. Will you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you, like a lot of companies, looking for a proven, measurable way to generate leads? If so, then consider this: According to SiriusDecisions, 50% of BtoB companies will have marketing automation by 2015. Companies that get lead scoring right have a 192% higher average lead qualification rate than those that don’t, according to Aberdeen Group. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/241</link>
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		<title>CHART OF THE DAY: Here&#8217;s How Much Tech Companies Spend On Advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not totally clear from this article just what counts as &#8220;advertising,&#8221; but one imagines TV accounts for the largest chunk. As the writers note, Apple seems to be on TV all the time – certainly as frequently as Microsoft – whereas I can&#8217;t remember the last time I saw an Ebay or Yahoo commercial. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/235</link>
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		<title>Gartner: Nearly half of IT, telecom companies plan to boost marketing spending :: BtoB Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article from BtoB magazine is certainly good news for PR and marketing firms (ahem!). But what&#8217;s really interesting to me is in the last paragraph –which I&#8217;ve bolded – and that&#8217;s what the budget will be spent on. Who&#8217;d have thunk it? No mention of search, social media or lead nurturing. Gartner: Nearly half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What BtoB Marketers Can Learn from BtoC Email Tactics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article ran this week from eMarketer about a recent Silverpop survey (a solid Atlanta based marketing technology company). We are glad to see the discussion is moving away from &#8220;what is the best day to send emails&#8221; to questions that truly drive BtoB prospects through the sales funnel. The idea of &#8220;gathering recipient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/10</link>
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		<title>The Top 20 Most Retweeted Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a Hubspot webinar entitled &#8220;The Science of Retweets&#8221; that shed some light on a handful of factors that comprise a retweetable tweet (try saying that five time fast). Some of the tips promised to help your retweetability rate included: Incorporate a link (preferably a bit.ly, which provides tracking and analytic capabilities) Politely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/11</link>
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		<title>March Madness, BtoB Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March Madness is in full swing and my bracket has seen better days…stupid Kansas. It got me thinking, which brands would emerge from a BtoB slugfest. Rather than bracketing out the full field of 64 (there’s no play-in game in this tourney), I’ve brought it down to the final four. From the “Hot BtoB Tools” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/12</link>
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		<title>Still lacking a crisis communications plan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new decade started with the planet’s most famous and well-known athlete facing unrelenting press coverage for his off-the-course activities. If you didn’t see that news, you may have been wrapped up in the coverage of an automaker that ran into its fair share of negative publicity. In a year’s time, Toyota went from fan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/13</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of Content: Analytics, Location and Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSA Georgia Technology SIG recently invited Renu Kulkarni, executive director of FutureMedia at Georgia Tech, to explain how Georgia Tech is helping businesses prepare for the future explosion of digital media and communications with its FutureMedia initiative. FutureMedia partners with universities, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry to create a robust “open innovation ecosystem” that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/14</link>
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		<title>Leads for Less with Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The below article from eMarketer reports on HubSpot&#8217;s most recent research report that finds social media, blogs and search engine optimization more cost-effective for lead gen. Interesting is that this is one of the first studies that show that &#8220;for business-to-business firms, LinkedIn was most effective for customer acquisition.&#8221;Here is the article release earlier this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/15</link>
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		<title>Is It Time To Give Twitter More Respect?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In reviewing this report we find little impact with regard to BtoB or BtoC organizations. However, in the Fortune 500 many companies sell in both environments (think Microsoft, GE, etc.). Regardless, Twitter scores one here.Study Finds Twitter is the Fastest Growing Social Media Channel Among Fortune 500 The Fortune 500’s use of blogs, online video, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Digital the New Traditional?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well here it goes – my first blog post for Arketi. A recent OMMA article highlighting a survey on the shift from traditional to digital spend has got me interested. The survey’s findings are truly not that surprising, but it’s the meaning behind them that got me thinking. For instance: Survey: 46% of companies plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for a Successful Technology Analyst Briefing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a former research director of the Strategic Service Management Practice at the Aberdeen Group I wanted to share with our blog followers some insight for companies interested in building a successful industry analyst relations program. It’s interesting that that so many place such a high value on influencing this group of influencers but get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/17</link>
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		<title>My name is Sami, by-the-way&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We marketers get so excited and up in arms about our message, our value proposition, our differentiator and the rest. We create interesting ads to portray these messages in ways that will delight our audience. For most marketers, almost all of their focus is on customer acquisition&#8230; finding and selling that next customer. Regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLU Season at PRSA&#124;GA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSA GA January Luncheon featured an informative and esteemed panel of members from the CDC, Children&#8217;s Healthcare and Gwinnett County Schools. The panelists shared best practices from the H1N1 Crisis, specifically how the respective decision makers formed communications policy and strategy, and then implemented it across a wide and diverse range of audiences. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TER’s Annual Legal, Tax &amp; Accounting Update for CXOs Nets Solid Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 19, 2010 about 50 Georgia technology executives gathered for TER’s 11th annual legal, tax and accounting update. The first Technology Executives Roundtable (TER) meeting of 2010 was rich with “must know information” for technology executives. Of particular interest were two legal cases reviewed by Jason D’Cruz and Ed Hirsch ofMorris, Manning &#038; Martin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 New Year&#8217;s Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As B2B marketers, we&#8217;re always looking to adapt and modify existing strategies and tactics to better position ourselves in the market and provide us a competitive edge. Now is certainly no different. As we close out a tumultuous 2009 and begin a new and hopefully, prosperous 2010, the time is perfect to reflect on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B2B Twitterer of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entries for the B2B Twitterer of the Year Awards are in full swing. Now in its second year, the awards were established to recognize innovative and outstanding use of the social media sensation by B2B companies. The emergence of the popular micro-blogging social platform has given B2B companies an easier way to connect with customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YPCity Makes A Splash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a sizable contingent of excited young professionals filled the room at Front Page News in Atlanta for the inaugural YPCity Tweet Up. Serving as a co-host of the event along with Katie Wall, I was simply overwhelmed by the turnout, at times having to squeeze through flocks of people engaged in deep conversation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transcending Perceptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSA GA December Luncheon featured an esteemed panel featuring Doug Shipman and Alisa Smallwood from Atlanta&#8217;s Center for Civil and Human Rights as well as Bill Halter (HOK) and Alexis Scott (Atlanta Daily World). Shedding light on the strategy, design and thinking behind the contents and layout of the Center for Civil and Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email, PR, Social Media Key Trends in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a study by email marketing provider Vertical Response, U.S. small businesses say they plan to bolster their use of social media and email marketing in 2010. &#8220;The survey of 831 respondents at businesses with fewer than 500 employees found that 74% plan increase email marketing and 68% will increase their use of social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the Bang of Bing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi Group Creative Director, Rory Carlton, examines the premise of the recently launch Microsoft Bing campaign and assesses its effectiveness in converting loyal Google-ites. Read the full article as featured in DMNews. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Tips with the Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi recently spoke with University of Georgia professor, Dr. Kaye Sweetser, APR, after her PRSA GA September pre-luncheon seminar titled &#8220;Creating Your Social Media Playbook: A Pre-Season Training Camp.&#8221; Dr. Sweetser emphasized the importance of understanding the fundamentals of social media engagement and provided specific tips, tricks and tactics to consider when developing a social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Goes Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSAGA September Luncheon featured an informative panel comprised of two public relations managers from UPS. Lynnette McIntire and Debbie Curtis-Magley provided insight into strategies employed by UPS when faced with a massive viral threat from a competitor. In an attempt to dispel the rumors and protect its reputation, UPS engaged proactively with a variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media in the Newsroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi Group recently spoke with Chris Sweigart, reporter and director of social media for 11Alive, about leveraging emerging social media technologies to expand the traditional newsroom. In addition to opening up its editorial meetings to the public, Sweigart acknowledges that 11Alive encourages its reporters to interact with viewers on Twitter and Facebook. This dynamic helps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PR Camp: Social Media Marshmallows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 200 communications professionals gathered at the Georgia Tech Research Institute last Friday for the inaugural PR Camp Atlanta. The anticipated event consisted of a slew of PR, marketing and communications professionals engaging in highly interactive social media discussions. Focusing specifically on how to bridge the gap between digital natives and seasoned professionals, the event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Relations Boot Camp, Cajun Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the PRSA GA August Luncheon, PR professionals listened as wildly vivacious, tremendously experienced, Media Trainer, Dr. Joseph Trahan, instructed on how to masterfully interact with the media. Louisiana native, Trahan, not only spoke Cajun to the group and belted out his favorite tunes, he enthusiastically lectured on how to prep clients to speak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRSA&#124;GA&#8217;s Annual Media Luncheon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSA GA August Luncheon featured a lively panel comprised of members from the Atlanta media scene. Mark Meltzer (Atlanta Business Chronicle), Walter Jones (Morris News Service), Chris Sweigart (11 Alive) and Denis O&#8217;Hayer (WABE-FM 90.1) engaged in a dynamic and insightful discussion on the evolution of today’s news environment and what ramifications it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video&#8230;the killer BtoB marketing app?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report released by the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Internet &#038; American Life Project shows that the share of online adults using video-sharing sites has nearly doubled since 2006. In fact, 62% of adult internet users have watched video on these sites, up from just 33% who reported this in December 2006. Today, nearly one-in-five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of the People (and Facebook)!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year or two, one important tool or another suddenly becomes it… A few years back, it was RSS, SecondLife and MySpace, today it is LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Who really knows what it will be two years from now? I have always thought Twitter is really just a feature to be ultimately subsumed into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PR Pro&#8217;s Peanut Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSA GA July luncheon was preceded by the PRSA GA Chapter &#8220;101,&#8221; a New Member Orientation session (featured above). Members new to the Georgia Chapter of PRSA had a chance to listen to seasoned committee members provide insight and tips on how to stay involved in the chapter and aspire to leadership positions with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ad Age Hits the Nail on the Head: Learning Twitter? Don&#8217;t Take Your Cues From These Agencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article&#8230;could this be why most &#8220;ad firms&#8221; are bad at public relations (PR) too? Maybe they do a better job talking about it and selling it to clients than doing it&#8230;just a thought. NEW YORK (AdAge.com) &#8212; As Twitter moves into the business mainstream &#8212; nearing some 35 million unique global visitors, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive Outlook: 21% of Marketing Spend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MediaPost&#8217;s Online Media Daily has a solid article on the latest interactive outlook from Forrester Research. Net net interactive spending will continue to take a larger piece of the marketing budget pie. Forrester analyst Shar VanBoskirk posted this on the company&#8217;s blog, &#8220;With dollars moving out of traditional media toward less expensive and more efficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Branding Clash with Search Efforts? You Bet It Can&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article in BtoB&#8217;s Hands On enewsletter&#8230;one of the best comments in this piece is: &#8220;These companies want to differentiate themselves and, with a normal sales message, I understand that. But this isn’t a normal sales message. It’s matching up searches.&#8221;It makes you think. Doesn&#8217;t it? Branding efforts can clash with SEMStory posted: July 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KD Paine &amp; Partners Deliver a Great Article on Twitter Analysis Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a friend of Katie&#8217;s, and I think she would be fine with me sharing this article with everyone. Needless to say it is from her great site www.themeasurementstandard.com. All the great information is from Chris Near and the folks at KD Paine &#038; Partners&#8230;enjoy! Which Twitter Profile Analysis Tool Rules the Nest? 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/40</link>
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		<title>Arketi&#8217;s Ajax Strategy Helps ERDAS Net More Web Leads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi and client ERDAS are featured in a MarketingSherpa case study out today about the use of Ajay-enabled web pages as a strategy to increase web leads. Have a read&#8230; MarketingSherpaCase Study #CS1994: Organize Content with Ajax-enabled Web Pages: 5 Steps to Increase Web Leads SUMMARY: Does your Web design make it hard for prospects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/41</link>
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		<title>New MarketingSherpa Chart: Managing the B2B Marketing-to-Sales Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some great info from MarketingSherpa&#8230;One way to overcome this is to put a Marketing Automation system, like Pardot, in place. Want to know more about this? Check out the June 2009 issue of Core (which will be coming out later this week, so if you are not on the Core enewsletter list sign up now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/42</link>
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		<title>Social Media Phenom Visits Atlanta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The June PRSAGA luncheon, a sellout, featured a myriad of PR and tech practitioners filling up the Cumberland Mall Maggiano’s. The featured guest speaker and social media superstar was Peter Shankman, founder of HARO, the largest free source repository in the world. Shankman noted the continued parallel between social media and trust while emphasizing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/43</link>
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		<title>Arketians Attend First Tweet-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 100 Atlanta PR and tech professionals gathered at the new 5 Seasons Brewing Company Wednesday to network, mingle and…..tweet? The tweet-up (twitter slang for an informal gathering) featured HARO founder, Peter Shankman. In addition to giving away a free weekend stay at the new Loew&#8217;s Atlanta Hotel, Peter had a chance to converse with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring Tech Excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A record crowd of technology marketing executives gathered last Thursday at Maggiano&#8217;s Cumberland as TAG conducted its ninth annual TAMY Awards for Technology Marketing excellence. Nearly 170 executives participated in this year&#8217;s award ceremony, which also featured an insightful presentation from Coca-Cola executive Penny McIntyre on the ways social media and emerging Web 3.0 technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Twitter work to support BtoB public relations efforts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were told today by a client that an industry analyst recently started following them on the Twitter page we built and help manage for the software company. After a few weeks of following the company the analyst contacted the client for a phone briefing and now is building a relationship with our client. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/45</link>
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		<title>Happy Hour Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Arketi Principals Sami Jajeh and Rory Carlton look on as Amy Leefe sizes up her shot) Arketians took a break from the typical office workday yesterday and headed down to Gordon Biersch, a German micro-brewery in Midtown. The outing, complete with appetizers, fresh beer &#038; wine, served as a well-timed hiatus from the ever demanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/47</link>
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		<title>PRSA&#124;GA Annual Conference &amp; May Luncheon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PRSA GA May Luncheon, held in conjunction with the Annual Conference, featured a distinguished panel consisting of legendary PR professionals Harold Burson (Burson-Marsteller) [pictured above], Bob Cohn (Cohn &#038; Wolfe) and Ofield Dukes (Ofield Dukes &#038; Associates). The panel detailed the vast growth of the public relations field in the last half decade while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/48</link>
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		<title>Cheers To A Great Partnership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Arketi Group and our client Flo Healthcare celebrated our 5-year anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, Arketi shared a whimsical cookie cake (see picture) with the Flo team. As Flo&#8217;s marketing partner for the past 5 years, Arketi has enjoyed working closely with the Flo team to position the company as a mobile clinical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/49</link>
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		<title>Peeking Behind the Curtain of Behavioral Targeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi executives attended this month&#8217;s American Marketing Association (AMA) Marketing Technology event, featuring a distinguished group of behavioral targeting experts, including Brant McLean (Specific Media), Charlie Chance (AJC Media Solutions), Mitch Scharf (Yahoo!) and Tricia Ekholm (Atlanta Ballet). Moderated by Glen Caruso (Tremor Media), the panelists discussed how to effectively use behavioral targeting to understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Business in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi members attended this month&#8217;s Technology Executives Roundtable (TER) event which featured a distinguished group of India experts, including Ani Agnihotri (IIIrd Millennium Technologies Inc.), Vinod Keni (Aquarian Group), Madhu Madhusudan (VectorSpan, Inc.), Sanjoy Malik (Air2Web, Inc.) and Vaibhau Parikh (Nishith Desai Associates) discussing the in&#8217;s and out&#8217;s of doing business in India. Moderated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BtoB&#8217;s NetMarketing Breakfast Series &#8212; UPDATE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Presentations from the Atlanta BtoB NetMarketing Breakfast is now avalible online. Word on the street is that later this week video segments shot after the breakfast will go online. To access this info click here. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/52</link>
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		<title>BtoB Execs Talk Tech Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BtoB Magazine&#8217;s NetMarketing Breakfast Series was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead and featured a panel of technology marketers sharing the challenges and successes of their marketing strategies. The panel was moderated by Ellis Booker, editor of BtoB Magazine and the featured speakers included Steele Hays (Sage Software), Leah Roscoe (VeriFone), and Steve Zimba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of Both Worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketians attended the TAG social mixer at Front Page News in Midtown last Wednesday. The event featured members of the TAG Consulting and TAG Young Professionals societies. The two groups intertwined nicely as the tech consultants had a chance to impart some wisdom and share their experiences with the up and coming tech professionals. Spotted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a Solid Set of Social Media Guidelines for Your Company?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why not check out Intels. Published in January 2009 these are a nice set of corporate guidelines for employees interested in using social media. To review the Intel Social Media Guidelines click here. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/55</link>
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		<title>Building Back the Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The April PRSA GA luncheon featured a packed house of local PR professionals gathering to learn about the current state of Georgia’s economy. The event featured a distinguished panel led by former Atlanta mayor, Sam Massel (Buckhead Coalition). The other panel members, Ken Heaghney (Georgia State University), Don Beaver (Cobb Chamber of Commerce) and A.J. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning to Tech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local PR professionals gathered at the BusinessWire Media Luncheon last Thursday, held at Anthony’s restaurant, to discuss new methods being utilized to reach the media in the current economic environment. The panel (pictured above), consisting of editors from local pubs, featured Nedra Rhone (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Nicole Smith (Atlanta Woman) and Stephanie Davis (skirt! Magazine). The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/57</link>
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		<title>Branding for the Cure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the PRSA GA March luncheon, Kelly Dolan (pictured above), executive director of the Atlanta Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, discussed how her organization is leveraging the power of marketing and public relations to overcome difficult times. The current economy poses challenges for non-profits and Dolan spotlighted the organization’s recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/58</link>
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		<title>Microcomputer Pioneers Dish Great Stories and Real Advice to Tech Execs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tech executives from across Atlanta came together Tuesday (03/17/09) at the March TER meeting to hear from true legends in microcomputer technology revolution. The event united five of the biggest Atlanta-based pioneers in the microcomputer revolution which started in the late 1970s. John Yates (Morris, Manning, and Martin) lead a spirited panel featuring: Richard Brock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/60</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs are Optimistic, VC not so much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of Technology Executives Roundtable (TER) packed the room on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 to hear some of the Southeast’s top VCs share their thought on how to find funding and what it will cost. The panel featured Alan Taetle (Noro-Moseley), Frank X. Dalton (Fulcrum Ventures), Sean M. Banks (Total Technology Ventures), Steve Nussrallah (Value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arketi Client Flo Healthcare Takes Center Stage in Grey&#8217;s Anatomy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right; Flo (http://www.flohealthcare.com/) the ergonomic, aesthetic and ease-of-use (lovable) workstation was spotted twice in the March 5, 2009 episode of ABC&#8217;s Grey&#8217;s Anatomy. Below are two shots of our good friend Flo hard at work on the set in Season 5, Ep 17 &#8220;I Will Follow You Into The Dark.&#8221; Everyone at Arketi thinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Essentials Look to be Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just downloaded and tested the latest version of Microsoft Live Messenger. The UI looks to be unnecessarily changed – we will see if it makes one more productive over time. However, a number of nifty tools have been added, including an easy-to-use blog tool that enables you to write to all of the various blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade show budgets not hot this year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BtoB magazine is reporting that trade shows will be off greatly this year. Not really a surprise given the economy. In fact, this very marketing tactic was heavily discussed at the second annual Atlanta High-Tech CMO Roundtable held in late 2008. To find out what CMOs said about this and what 2009 holds for BtoB [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/63</link>
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		<title>Arketi Principal to Lead B2B Webinar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi principal Sami Jajeh will be presenting a B2B Power Exchange webinar this coming Monday, March 9th at 2 p.m. EST. As part of the group’s ongoing Thought Leadership series, the free webinar,“Uniting Messaging and Segmentation for Better Marketing Results,” will examine the benefits of combining messaging and positioning exercises as part of one organizational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Nuggets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The February PRSA GA luncheon was sold-out and overflowing with young aspiring PR students attending the Real World 2009 Conference. The students filled the Loudermilk Center and had an opportunity to network and participate in numerous workshops and seminars. PRSA GA President, Mike Neumeier (Arketi Group) presented Whitney Boudreaux (Arketi Group) with the monthly Chapter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BtoB Technology Marketers Missing Social Media Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good info from Forrester Research&#8230; February 25th, 2009 77 percent of business technology decision-makers engage with social media on the job, yet most B2B marketers are not effectively using social technologies to influence the purchasing decisions of their customers, says Forrester Research. In 2007 Forreter released their comsumer Social Technographics Scale . (See more explanation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking The Lead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Arketi’s own, consultant Whitney Ellis Boudreaux, has been named the recipient of the February 2009 PRSA GA Chapter Champion Award for her outstanding volunteer work with the chapter. Currently, she serves as the co-chair of the Awards Celebration Committee and coordinated the Silent Auction at last year&#8217;s PRSA GA Awards Celebration. Previously, she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/67</link>
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		<title>One in 10 American Adults is a ‘Tweeter’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have seen many business and trade journalists embrace Twitter. As a result, BtoB PR folks need to start thinking about how they can get their organizations in on the Twitter&#8230;[Hint check out www.twitter.com/arketi] More than one in ten (11%) online adults in the US say they have used Twitter &#8211; or a similar service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/69</link>
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		<title>BMA Atlanta Hosts 5th Annual Chocolate Tasting Fundraiser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Business Marketing Association, Atlanta Chapter held it’s 5th Annual Chocolate Tasting Fundraiser last night at FAB (French American Brassiere). Over 75 marketing and business professionals attended this sold out event and enjoyed chocolate, wine, raffles and a live auction benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foudnation. Vikki Locke from B98.5 and her husband were special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Good Business Karma?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why not help a worthy non-profit! Arketi pro-bono client, HealthMPowers, is looking for new office space and office equipment. HealthMPowers, an Arketi client since late 2006, is a unique, coordinated initiative designed to increase health knowledge and provides programs that are designed to provide students with the health information, skills, resources and motivation necessary to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/72</link>
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		<title>Atlanta Ad Club Honors Advertising’s Best and Brightest at ADDY® Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday evening, the Atlanta Ad Club hosted the Atlanta ADDY Awards, the Southeast’s largest advertising competition. With more than 730 entries, 176 ADDY Awards were presented to advertising professionals and students. The coveted “Best of Show Award” was given to Ames Scullin O’Haire for its work with The Blues Foundation, and the “Student Best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report Points To Georgia Tech Community As Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, our start-up community is still starting up&#8230;with slightly more than a third of our entrepreneurs first-timers. That said, a third said they were on there second start up.Numbers aside, truly great technology companies and ideas have come from Georgia and will continue to do so.Survey: Georgia’s tech community is burgeoning Georgia technology entrepreneurs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian and Whitney Tie the Knot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of Arketi’s best became even better on 1/24 when they married! Congratulations go to the happy couple from all of us in the office. We know they are going to have a wonderful life together. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arketi.com/blog/archives/75</link>
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		<title>Social Networking Communications: Lesson Learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent incident between FedEx and one of the largest global PR agencies demonstrates the need to apply basic communications principles in the evolving social-networking environment. Communication through these “social communities” has now evolved into normal everyday discourse among superiors, employees, clients, partners and prospects. This new dimension of social communications presents a dynamic challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brand Called YOU!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The January PRSAGA luncheon featured Jerry Wilson, longtime senior executive at The Coca-Cola Company and author of Managing Brand YOU. He advised attendees to think about their own personal brand by outlining the seven steps individuals should undergo to brand themselves. Explaining great brands have &#8220;inner essence,&#8221; Wilson noted Tiger Woods and Bono are more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bean Counters To Tech Executives: &#8220;Get Involved in Legislation!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TER members packed the room Tuesday to hear some of Atlanta&#8217;s top accounting, tax and legal professionals discuss accounting and tax regulations&#8217; impact on technology companies. Moderated by Grant Collingsworth (Morris, Manning &#038; Martin), the panelists &#8211; Wayne Reid and Seth McDaniel (Frazier &#038; Deeter), and Terresa Tarpley and Bruce Wynn (Morris, Manning &#038; Martin) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Patriotic Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The historic moment of the inauguration of our 44th president was not lost on those of us busy working here at Arketi. A group of us broke early for lunch today to watch the once in a lifetime event as President Obama assumed the leadership of our country. All agreed that this peaceful transfer of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Networking, Technology Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Marketing Society held their third annual marketing speed networking event Thursday morning at the Centergy Building. The event featured nearly 60 technology marketing executives engaged in one-to-one mini meetings where attendees had a chance to present their personal “value proposition” and meet other local technology professionals. Spotted at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pew Internet Releases Adults and Social Networks report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting BtoB observations about this report are: Personal use of social networks seems to be more prevalent than professional use of networks Users that do use social networks for professional and personal reasons often maintain multiple profiles, generally on different sites Today, the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Internet &#038; American Life Project releases a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walt Mossberg, Up Close and Personal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve got the whole world in our hands. Or, at least we will in the next couple of years if we own a new class of handhelds. Handheld devices was the primary focus of a panel discussion, held last month, featuring Wall Street Journal columnist, Wall Mossberg, and Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumble in the Concrete Jungle: ABC vs. AJC Tech Reporters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is more valuable to a public relations professional than getting inside the heads of reporters. Urvaksh Karkaria, technology reporter for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and Kristi Swartz, technology reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, allotted us an hour to do just that. On Thursday afternoon, PRSAGA’s Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) hosted a Q&#038;A; session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing First-Hand Account of Tech Reporter&#8217;s Experience in Mumbai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently a few of us from Arketi were speaking with Urvaksh Karkaria, the technology reporter for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, at a PRSAGA event and he shared with us that he was in Mumbai on Nov. 26, 2008, the day of the terrorist attacks on the city. Urvaksh was there to celebrate his wedding with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK&#8230;Print is Not Dead&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article (and report) is worth reading&#8230;while there continues to be strong support for print media among the &#8220;C-Suite&#8221; the online numbers are impressive and really do beat out print in terms of &#8220;top information source&#8221;&#8230; Business Leaders Voraciously Consume Print, TV, Internet Despite recent gloom-and-doom reports for some traditional print and broadcast media, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half BtoB Marketing Spending Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online is it&#8230;it is where everyone goes FIRST to check you out&#8230;online marketing is a must in every BtoB public relations and marketing program&#8230;yet again the numbers prove it! Hearst survey finds nearly half of b-to-b marketing budgets spent online Cleveland—Nearly half of b-to-b marketing budgets are spent on online programs, according to a survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can’t Sales and Marketing just get along?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve worked in a number of marketing organizations, you have probably experienced some that had a great relationship with the sales force, and some that didn&#8217;t. What is the difference? Why can’t Sales and Marketing just get along? We would argue it is Marketing’s job to understand what makes Sales (and sales people) tick, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;PC Magazine&#8221; 100% Online!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230;No hard copy of PC Magazine that is a turning point, and really a good one. As more and more readers are online the ability for the &#8220;publication&#8221; to be truly interactive is a great plus for those covered in editorial and those purchasing ad. Ziff, job well done! ‘PC Magazine’ says the time has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Test Results for Email Send Times: 3 Major Takeaways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting findings that MarketingSherpa sent out in the Nov. 17th &#8220;Best of Weekly&#8221; email blast&#8230; New Test Results for Email Send Times: 3 Major Takeaways Sending your emails at the right time of the day can be crucial whether you are a B2B or consumer marketer. It can be especially critical if you market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ Survey Says: Economists See Growth Returning Next Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy is in the midst of the worst part of the recession, but growth may return by the second half of next year, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey. Nearly two-thirds of respondents say the Treasury Department&#8217;s Troubled Asset Relief Program, which has taken stakes in major financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Repositioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arketi Group’s Mike Neumeier recently interviewed Ajay Murthy, vice president of global marketing at Convergys Corporation, about his company’s recent repositioning. Cincinnati-based Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) provides solutions that help companies drive greater value from the interactions they have with their customers and employees. With 75,000 employees and 85 contact centers in the United States, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Expect Companies to Have a Presence in Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The results continue to roll in&#8230;Social media is a marketing channel that all marketers need to be thinking about using. Sixty percent of Americans use social media, and of those, 59 percent interact with companies on social media Web sites. One in four interacts more than once per week. These are among the findings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Thought Leadership by the Horns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business-to-business technology companies often face two combined hurdles: how to generate content for marketing and sales and how to increase leads for the sales team. In order to keep prospective customers energized and interested in your products or services, marketing teams must have relevant and compelling content to deliver as part of their marketing strategy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forrester Say, &#8220;B2B Blogging Takes a Nose Dive&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article&#8230;could it be that the B2B market is not right for blogging? Or maybe the market has just not found its blogging nitch?We at Arketi do think blogging is right for the B2B market, but we also think that many B2B marketers and companies are not ready for blogging. Leaders like IBM and Accenture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a richer email experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several times recently, clients have asked us about ways to create a richer media in their email marketing campaigns. Specifically, they want to start incorporating video or Flash into email. Now I love a challenge, and I hate disappointing clients, or saying “it can’t be done” – especially since there’s always the risk that someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Wealthy Consumers Are Using Social Networks Wouldn&#8217;t BtoB Buyers Be Users Too?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You bet! This report shows some eye popping numbers&#8230;if folks making nearly $300K a year are involved in social networking sites it&#8217;s safe to guess that many in the BtoB C-Suites are starting to participate in this area too.Advice to BtoB marketers&#8230;get involved, test social networks in marketing efforts, try Web 2.0 technology&#8230;in short, let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TAG Marketing society met yesterday to discuss the latest information regarding Search Engine Marketing. The moderator from NeboWeb and panelists from Prominent Placement and Sage Software did an excellent job. Some basic, strong reminders that were shared included: (1) The importance of a strong call to action, (2) Content is king, and (3) Test! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B2B Marketing News Blog Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you not following our blog from myspace may have noticed a few changes in the preceding months. We added a few new features thanks to some ideas gleaned from others in the blogosphere and a social bookmarking section. We’ve added a blogroll so you can check out some of our favorite blogs. Links [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Event Worth Checking Out: Social Media Marketing Gets Some Respect!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AiMA (Atlanta Interactive Marketing Assoc.) on February 27.http://www.atlantaima.org/default.aspx Dell, The Home Depot, Goodwill of Greater Washington are presenting cases studies that utilized social media/Web 2.0 initiatives to impact brand perception. This is the first time any of the cases have been presented in Atlanta by the marketers who made it happen! Yes, CASE STUDIES of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off to SoCon08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look for a full update in the coming days&#8230; Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Media Suffers&#8230;Will Web 2.0 and Social Media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article&#8230;the point is you can better measure ROI online&#8230;making online B2B marketing channels even more attractive. Podcasts anyone? B-to-b media companies brace for ‘tough’ yearNew York—B-to-b media companies face a “tough” year, as the economic slowdown puts the squeeze on marketing budgets and pressure on publishers to provide more solid ROI to clients, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, New Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!!!!!! 2008 has already brought big things to Arketi Group. Today we completed our first week in our new office. Barring a few small set-backs – a few dings in the wall, some server connectivity problems and a missing conference table – the new place is great. But the best part, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello TAG!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to thank the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) for including the Arketi Business to Business Marketing News blog on its website. Special thanks go out to Amanda Shook for working through the process with me! For those unfamiliar with TAG, the organization is dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of the state&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing like some holiday cheer from your employees&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is not really much to say here&#8230;except KUDOS to Jennifer for creating this and sending it out to everyone in the office, and I guess to OfficeMax for a SMART viral Holiday marketing campaign! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Business School&#8217;s John Quelch Hit the B2B Marketing Nail on the Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John&#8217;s &#8220;How to Build a B2B Brand&#8221; post on the Harvard Business blog (Nov. 20, 2007) is worth a quick read. The characteristics unearthed by the HBS research team&#8217;s recent study of top B2B global brands are key for any B2B marketer&#8217;s success. They are:1. The CEO is a willing brand cheerleader, loves the brand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Mor Terkee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Chick-fil-a’s “Eat More Chikin” campaign I would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! This holiday weekend cows and chickens get a reprieve in favor of tryptophan-laden turkey. Maybe this year we’ll see a commercial featuring the cows calling a truce with the chicken – if only for a day. Doubtful, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST DUCKY!!!!!!!!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last week’s PRSAGA Phoenix Awards celebration Arketi took home four of six awards for which we were nominated. Congrats to all Arketians for their hard work and of course, congrats to our clients. If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t be here. Not only did we succeed in the awards ceremony, but also in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Meet The PR Lady&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I did a quick blog about Apple&#8217;s very funny ad highlighting Microsoft&#8217;s PR lady&#8230;well, today eWeek is reporting that: &#8220;Apple issued an enormous set of patches on Nov. 14, with 41 fixes for Mac OS X and Safari vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to hijack systems, trigger denial-of-service and jack up their privileges. &#8220;If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s PR Lady Ad&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some professionals might be very offended by this ad&#8230;but I think we as a profession do need to sometimes not take ourselves so serious. If you are in PR and have not seen this ad yet stop reading this and go see the ad&#8230; It&#8217;s very funny and shows how a great ad campaign like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakfast with Katie Delahaye Paine&#8230;at the Silver Skillet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This a.m. I had a wonderful breakfast at the Silver Skillet with measurement guru Katie Paine. This was really the first time Katie and I had a chance to really dig into what her company is doing and how we are measuring PR success. Simply put, Katie is &#8220;way smart&#8221; and presents PR measurement in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media and Conversational Marketing Portends Revamp of Marketing P&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great study&#8230;and it really supports what we have been saying for sometime, BtoB marketers need to be eyeing social media/Web 2.0 tools&#8230;our own research with BtoB media folks (www.arketi.com/survey) shows that the media are already using these tools and expect companies too also&#8230;have a read at what Center for Media Research&#8217;s 10/31/07 [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[We released this news on Monday&#8230;we think it is key for any BtoB marketer&#8230; SURVEY OF BUSINESS JOURNALISTS BY ARKETI GROUP FINDS BLOGS AND OTHER ONLINE SOURCES GROWING IN POPULARITY Study finds journalists believe monitoring of employee blogging ethical,news releases are not dead ATLANTA – October 22, 2007 – Arketi Group, an integrated marketing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>57% of B2B Marketers Lack Crisis Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The October issue of BtoB magazine reports a disturbing figure. BtoB found that 57% of marketing executives report not having a crisis plan. What’s more 53% report having experienced a business crisis that resulted in negative news coverage, declining sales or reduced profitability. At first blush these numbers don’t seem to jive. Nearly an identical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology – marketing it and using it to market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I had the opportunity to attend the third annual Excalibur Awards, co-hosted by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). The keynote speaker, Debora Wilson, president of The Weather Channel, spoke about the highs and lows of The Weather Channel, how it has grown, and how it constantly looks for different and better technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How an Email Hyperlink is Worded Can Impact Click-Through Rates More Than 8 Percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What hyperlink phrase are readers of an e-newsletter more likely to click on? If you think it doesn&#8217;t really make a difference, think again. MarketingSherpa recently conducted an in-house test to determine what words in a hyperlink are the most actionable, and a summary of their findings are below. Hint: if you are currently using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Email Findings Show &#8220;Welcome&#8221; Email Are Very Effective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The article below is about the recent Retail Welcome Email Subscription Benchmark Study. Although we really blog about B2B marketing here we thought these findings were interesting and should also be considered by B2B marketers. A &#8220;Welcome&#8221; Message Keeps &#8216;Em Coming Back The Email Experience Council and the Direct Marketing Association announced the release of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ipsos Media&#8217;s Business Elite&#8217;s Media Consumption Date&#8230;Interesting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ipsos Media’s BE: USA 2007 &#8211; the media survey of the United State’s business elite, has some very interesting findings&#8230;but the media consumptions patterns of this top tier group were of great interests to us at Arketi Group.This group is really turning to the Internet for business information&#8230;but the good old print magazine is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEO SURVEY SAYS: CUSTOMERS COUNT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martha Rogers writes a great piece in this week&#8217;s 1to1Weekly enewsletter about the recent NYSE CEO survey&#8230;in short, customers matter!Some may see this as a duh! finding but ask yourself as a marketer when is the last time you dug into your organization&#8217;s customer experience. Many marketers tend to forget customers, if you are one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arketi Clients Making Some Waves With M&amp;As&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks have been busy ones for us and more than a few Arketi Group clients. In fact, three clients have recently been involved in M&#038;A; activities that will only make them stronger companies. We just wanted to take a moment to &#8220;congratulate&#8221; them on our blog. Yes they are client (in full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Trolley Line Has Acronym SLUT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a marketer there is really not much to say about this&#8230;but the majority of us here at Arketi would purchase the T-shirt to support Kapow! Coffee&#8217;s bold move. Seattle Trolley Line Has Acronym SLUTSeptember 18, 2007 12:59 PM EST SEATTLE &#8211; Officially it&#8217;s the South Lake Union Streetcar. Within the old Cascade neighborhood, part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>31% of B2B Marketers Allocate 20% or More of Media Budgets to New Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a great article from Center for Media Research&#8217;s Aug. 30, 2007 Research Brief. I think it is a very solid sign that B2B marketers have been successful in finding ways to use Web2.0 technology to help market their organizations.If you ever questioned if you should use new media in your B2B marketing mix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennials Into User Generated Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[User generated content (UGC) is not just a fad, you know that. Now here are some new numbers that show both young and old are into UGC. Deloitte&#8217;s &#8220;2007 State of the Media Democracy&#8221; survey confirmed the growing popularity of user-generated content; Millennials (age 18-24) in the survey spend about equal amounts of time consuming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Execs Extend Trust to Social Media in Making Purchase Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some great new info from ITtoolbox about social media usage during the decision making process. This is yet another reason for B2B marketers to get into Web 2.0! The info below comes from the July 3 MediaPost enewsletter.A new study by ITtoolbox confirms that today&#8217;s Information Technology decision-makers and influencers not only turn to traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sad Week in Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week has been particularly disturbing to the purveyors of news. If you weren’t scared you should check for a pulse or, as I’m guessing is the case, pay more attention. In response to the continued Rupert-Murdoch-takes-over-the-mediated-world-one-outlet-a-time summer tour, on Thursday morning, members of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial staff went on strike. Odds are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Political Communications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I started reading On Bended Knee: The press and the Reagan presidency by Mark Hertsgaard. After having this book for more than 8 years I decided it was time to crack it open last week while taking some R&#038;R.; Although not finished yet, I wanted to share some interesting ideas that I think B2B [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasting&#8230;A &#8220;second life&#8221; for radio?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to eMarketer.com podcast listeners still like radio and in fact can drive an increase in radio listening among talk and news stations. Reporting on finding from Bridge Ratings&#8216; &#8220;Podcast Panel&#8221; the article reports that nearly 20 million US consumers will download and listen to podcasts at least once a week by 2010. &#8220;eMarketer&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Mustard Yellow Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s true . I have bid farewell to my mustard yellow wall. With a new employee starting on Monday a change of office has supplanted me from my yellow-facing seat to one that is much less colorful. You guessed it; I now stare at a vanilla-white wall. How boring is that? But I can find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D&#8217;oh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 18 years you surely know the origin of the word “d’oh.” It’s the comically melancholy utterance coined by The Simpsons’ Homer. As reported by PRWeek, Fox has created a contest for cities named Springfield across the country. Cities are charged with submitting videos claiming why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One day later&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we here at B2B Marketing News entered the advanced blogosphere yesterday with our registration with Technorati. Technorati is the self-described, “authority on what&#8217;s happening on the World Live Web, right now.” Silly me, I had only heard of the World Wide Web until now. Technorati keeps its eyes on the Web, researching and organizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technorati Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go, into the wild world of Technorati. Technorati Profile Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser]]></description>
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		<title>What a difference a week makes…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last week I wrote a riveting blog entry about the insanity involved in purchasing an original “General Lee” for $10 million. Well, the online auction buyer experienced sticker shock. As reported by CNN, the winning bidder claims that someone else placed the bids in his name after gaining access to his eBay account. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just some good ole&#8217; boys, never meanin&#8217; no harm&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read the most ridiculous thing today. A car that served as the original &#8220;General Lee&#8221; sold at auction today for $10 million. For those of you unfamiliar with this mythical automobile, it is the orange muscle-car with (regrettably) the Confederate flag painted on top and the doors welded-shut. Sure, Superman can leap tall buildings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is all ink, good ink????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For much of America those four words meant absolutely nothing. But this mishmash of syllables took on meaning to much of the country when the city of Boston was gripped in fear by what amounts to a few Lite-Brites. I don’t need to recap the story in too much detail. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Edelman, in the flesh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Richard Edelman spoke to the PRSA Georgia chapter about the new media consumer and the ever-changing world of mediated content. If you are reading this post then you are among the growing segment of people who tune into the Web 2.0 movement. As mentioned by Edelman, more and more people are leaving [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a weekend in Chicago. The weekend was not just a visit to my old stomping ground, but an opportunity for me to learn. On Monday I attended The Ultimate Media Pitching Workshop, a media relations session from Bulldog Reporter. The session’s instructor, Michael Smart, travels the country teaching PR practitioners how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bowling Approach to Brainstorming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confused by the headline? You probably aren&#8217;t alone. How do I make this connection? For those few who are unfamiliar with bowling (including one of my bosses, circa January 2007). The point of the game (contrary to some assertions, it is not a sport) is to topple 10 triangularly-arranged pins with one or two casts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to Kennesaw State University!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday I visited with Kennesaw State University&#8217;s PRSSA chapter &#8211; for those of you not in the know that&#8217;s the Public Relations Student Society of America. We had a great discussion about Web 2.0. Applause to the department for recognizing the growing importance of blogs, podcasts, RSS, Second Life and all other aspects of the [...]]]></description>
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