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		<title>Wineries, 911 Call Centers, and South Korea’s Largest Cell Phone Provider (Final Post in the Apps not Ads Series)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do wineries, 911 call centers, and South Korea&#8217;s largest cell phone carrier have in common?  Intertech&#8217;s team has built mobile applications for all of them. In this final post in the series For Mobile Devices, Think Apps (not ads!), I&#8217;m sharing a few examples of what we&#8217;ve built for our customers. A Media App for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intertech Named a Top 100 Workplace by the Star Tribune</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intertech was named one of the Top 100 Workplaces for 2013 by the Star Tribune. Intertech was also featured in the article Rockin&#8217; pays off at work and play. My thanks to our employees and customers for making this recognition possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Father’s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Balance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I wrote &#8220;Lessons from My Father&#8221; for  Octane, The Entrepreneur&#8217;s Organization Magazine.  While some of you may have seen this before, below is a copy&#8230; Lessons from My Father For many, Father’s Day is a holiday of the worst possible definition: a phony event designed to sell cards and neck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Mobile Devices, Think Apps Not Ads (Post 4 of 5)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been following my last few posts, you know I’m focusing on how to use mobile applications in innovative ways to reach customers. A good article by Sunil Gupta in the March 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review lays out five smart ways to create apps that enhance consumers’ lives and reinforce your brand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the World of Mobile, Think Apps Not Ads (Post 3 of 5)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Although smartphones are ubiquitous, ‘mobile advertising’ can be a hollow phrase. People simply don’t like ads on their screens,” writes Sunil Gupta in the March 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review. Gupta lays out a convincing case for marketers to forget about ads and instead to focus on creating effective apps in an attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last is not an option for Minnesota when it comes to entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article I wrote was published in the Star Tribune.  It&#8217;s a response to The Kauffman Foundation&#8217;s study which placed Minnesota dead last in new business formation. Here&#8217;s a link to the article Last is not an option for Minnesota when it comes to entrepreneurs. . . . .]]></description>
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		<title>In the World of Mobile, Think Apps Not Ads (Post 2 of 5)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 03:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us spend more time with our mobile phones than with our spouses or children. Ludicrous? Think about it. Your phone is the first thing you may interact with when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you touch at night. You carry it around with you all day long, checking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the World of Mobile, Think Apps Not Ads (Post 1 of 5)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 14:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Public”, &#8220;social&#8221;, and &#8220;mobile&#8221; took on new meanings in the aftermath of the Boston terror attacks. Not only were many people on the streets as the terrifying events unfolded, many more were connected via text, photos and video that was created and transmitted in real time by people to their loved ones in other locations. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Public Engagement – Look for Convergence, Create Awareness</title>
		<link>http://tomsalonek.com/effective-public-engagement-last-in-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last post in my series on Fighting a Government Threat. My 8th lesson, Don’t assume that your counterpart thinks the way you do or is influenced by the same consideration, is underscored in the Harvard Business Review case study on this topic. Author Michael Hartman notes, “Especially when dealing with government entities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Public Engagement – Engage, Speak, and Be Practical</title>
		<link>http://tomsalonek.com/effective-public-engagement-engage-speak-and-be-practical/</link>
		<comments>http://tomsalonek.com/effective-public-engagement-engage-speak-and-be-practical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Salonek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a political proposal threatens your business, it is in the best interests of you and your employees to speak up in a public way. Hence, lesson #4: Engage your employees in the public debate as much as possible. We found this to be an effective technique when the Governor was pushing a proposal to [...]]]></description>
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