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	<title>Social Media Brat</title>
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		<title>Beware the Business Trainer Kraken!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to learning new social sites, I admit that I’m spoiled. Years in IT more than familiarized me with being handed new software and being forced instructed to learn it quickly. With all of the new social networking sites vying to be the belle of the ball nearly every day, I don&#8217;t find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2012/02/23/beware-the-business-trainer-kraken/</link>
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		<title>What’s in a Name? In Social Media, it’s Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” –Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet There’s been a lot of conversation lately about names and social media. Google caught flak for requiring people to register their real names on their account or risk banishment to some Googlitary Confinement where no one hear you search. There’s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/12/02/what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name-in-social-media-it%e2%80%99s-everything/</link>
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		<title>Social Media is like…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love analogies. I really realized my love for analogies around 2001 when I told a school board I was pitching a website to that a poorly designed website was like eating oatmeal without water. I feel that the great teachers and religious scholars in history used fables and parables, and analogies are simply bite-sized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/10/23/social-media-is-like/</link>
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		<title>From NFC to Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments Finally Getting Serious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a world where it was no longer necessary to carry cash or a credit card, but only carry your smartphone to make payments. Your smartphone already carries your photos, social updates, and email, why not your money too? Using mobile payment technology, it would be possible to not only still use your smartphone for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/09/26/from-nfc-to-mobile-apps-mobile-payments-finally-getting-serious/</link>
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		<title>Why Do We Love to Predict Failure?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may seem a bit late to jump on this bandwagon, but I’ve been juggling projects and attending SocialDevCamp so it’s been a hectic week. If my absence has you predicting my demise from the blogging world, I wouldn’t take offense, I’d actually thank you. Here’s why. We are obsessed with failure Steve Jobs departing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/09/01/why-do-we-love-to-predict-failure/</link>
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		<title>It’s Better to be Right Than First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, your fans can be a bigger threat to your brand’s reputation than your sneakiest competitor. The old saying &#8220;with friends like this, who needs enemies?&#8221; can now be updated for social media to read &#8220;with brand advocates, fan sites, and news blogs like these, who needs enemies?&#8221; How? Read on. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/08/15/its-better-to-be-right-than-first/</link>
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		<title>My Laptop’s Dead. Time for a Tablet or Lead with a Laptop?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very recently, my Toshiba Satellite decided it no longer enjoyed my company and decided to part ways with me. Staring down a $200 system board replacement (and that’s if I replace it!), I have found myself instead searching the web and the IRL big-box marts looking for a suitable replacement. With a much more plethoric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/07/31/my-laptops-dead-time-for-a-tablet-or-lead-with-a-laptop/</link>
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		<title>Agency Life vs. Freelance Life: 5 Takeaways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week marked the end of my first week at Edelman in Chicago, and I am loving it. For all of the focus that some PR and Marketing agencies tend to put on finding and hiring other &#8220;agency people&#8221; who fit in with the &#8220;agency culture&#8221;, Edelman brought in someone with a wealth of marketing experience, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/07/16/agency-life-vs-freelance-life-5-takeaways/</link>
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		<title>Time to Tango: Transitions and a New Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Change always happens. The only difference between a change that makes you and a change that breaks you is the tango step you take when life goes from the slow-step to the quick-step. My declaration of going independent and ramping up freelance customers was going swimmingly, but life started to feel like it was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/07/04/time-to-tango-transitions-and-a-new-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>‘Security is a Superstition’ and The Rule of the Knife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.” - Helen Keller I had read the first part of the above quote before, but upon recently reading the remaining part, I knew I had a blog post. Since TAB and I are both bloggers, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmediabrat.com/2011/06/23/security-is-a-superstition-and-the-rule-of-the-knife/</link>
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