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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Stop Blaming the Intern</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stop blaming the intern! It seems like every time there is a social media blunder or scandal people are quick to say &#8220;fire the intern&#8221; or &#8220;see what happens when you leave social to the intern.&#8221; People, it&#8217;s 2014. If you&#8217;re leaving social media up to an intern, you have only yourself to blame! There [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marketers Relationship with Big Data: It&#8217;s Complicated</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/marketing-with-big-data/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Marketing is struggling to adapt to big data. Today, content is being created faster than it can be consumed and our attention spans are not getting any longer. The amount of content available on the Internet is increasing and shows no signs of stopping. This leads to a corresponding amount of data to be processed, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I&#8217;ll Never Be An Early Adopter</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/not-early-adopter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early adopter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google Glass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me and either work in or are fascinated by technology, you&#8217;re always intrigued by &#8220;the next big thing.&#8221; Everyday we&#8217;re inundated with technology commercials, acquisitions, and product announcements. Despite these innumerable advancements and related media coverage, I&#8217;m still reluctant to become an early adopter. In my mind, early adopters go out of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Millennials Are the Greatest Generation That Ever Lived</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/millennials-the-greatest/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forbes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s that for click-bait title? Isn&#8217;t that the purpose of articles with grandiose titles making claims about millennials or baby boomers? Did he really just start a blog post with three questions? It seems like every day a different blog is publishing an article making absurd statements about millennials or baby boomers. While I do [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Back to Blogging?</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/back-to-blogging/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Start]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog will mostly be about social media, marketing, technology, and advertising, but this specific post will be about none of those things.  Before diving into a regular posting schedule, I want to provide context about my reasons for getting back into blogging and why I’m doing it now. I took my first stab at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are You Not Entertained? &#8211; Facebook Introduces &#8216;Listen&#8217; Button</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/what-are-you-listening-too-facebook-introduces-listen-button/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today Facebook introduced a &#8216;Listen&#8217; button to some of its band and artist pages. Now fans can listen to music right from their favorite band&#8217;s band or music page using third-party services such as Spotify. This is a big step Previously, users could listen to music on Spotify and it would publish to a user&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blog Revived? &#8211; Facebook buys Instagram</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/blog-revived-facebook-buys-instagram/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while, but recent events in social media and the digital world have brought me back to my blog. Hope you missed me. &#160; &#160; Of course, I&#8217;m talking about Facebook buying Instagram. This is a big deal and not just because Facebook spent $1 Billion to acquire Instagram. Facebook&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 Reasons NFC Will Be Big in 2012</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/3-reasons-nfc-will-be-big-in-2012/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Near field communications (NFC) is going to have a major impact on the mobile market in 2012. NFC allows devices, such as phones, to collect data from another device or NFC tag at close range. This has a number of applications because it doesn&#8217;t need contact or connection to share information between the two devices. Some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pinterest: A Visual Social Network</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/pinterest-a-visual-social-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pinterest is an up-and-coming social network that organizes your likes around the idea of a pinboard. According to Marketing Land, Pinterest received nearly 11 million total visits last week up 40 times traffic numbers in June. Pinterest is a small invite-only social network that focuses on display and aesthetics to attract users. Users create different boards to highlight [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>#UnfollowFriday: The Ghost</title>
		<link>https://loebben.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/unfollowfriday-the-ghost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s pretty obvious that you shouldn&#8217;t follow people who don&#8217;t tweet. However, some of us fall victim to social media ghosts. Ghosts are people who were once active on social media sites like Twitter but eventually fade into the shadows. In some cases these people are friends or the ones who got us to join these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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