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	<title>who do you think you are?</title>
	
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		<title>it’s a small, small world (especially in boulder)</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/07/07/its-a-small-small-world-especially-in-boulder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite Twitter truisms is &#8220;Don&#8217;t piss off the Tweeple.  They&#8217;re opinionated, easily convinced, and roam in packs.&#8221;  A few weeks ago, I saw a phenomenon that caused me to add &#8220;or online news site commenters&#8221; to the list of people not to mess with.
Observe this article about a local coffee shop opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>three marketing messages you should NEVER send to your clients</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/06/08/three-marketing-messages-you-should-never-send-to-your-clients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a marketing and brand strategy person, one of my chief responsibilities is to stay up to date on trends, techniques, and news in the industry.  In the course of my Internet travels I run across all kinds of companies that have invested in some kind of Web presence&#8230;and that turn me off.  Here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>twitter – who cares?</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/05/25/twitter-who-cares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 06:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring 2009 is all about social media education, and Twitter is on the tongues of everyone from devoted power-users to confused newbs who can barely use a mouse.
Despite all the hype, news programs and even devotees haven&#8217;t quite hit their mark.  I keep running across the same question over and over again&#8230;why should I care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>it’s official:  erin just sold her first book!</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/05/04/its-official-erin-just-sold-her-first-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/05/04/its-official-erin-just-sold-her-first-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Publisher&#8217;s Lunch:
Non-fiction: General/Other
Erin Blakemore&#8217;s THE HEROINE&#8217;S BOOKSHELF, an inspiring look at literature&#8217;s greatest and most enduring female characters &#8212; such as Jo March, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Laura Ingalls and others &#8212; and their authors, who have helped shape the inner lives of generations of women, teasing out universal tenets of strength and survival, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>are you guilty of the top 3 twitter mistakes?</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/04/23/are-you-guilty-of-the-top-3-twitter-mistakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/04/23/are-you-guilty-of-the-top-3-twitter-mistakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spending lots and lots of time on Twitter lately (@vococreative&#8217;s the name if you&#8217;d like to follow) and am continually amazed by the creativity and passion being brought to this deceptively inane program by its millions of users.
Unfortunately, all the Twitter hype is made even more confusing by a growing universe of Twittiquette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this week in marketing and brand strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/04/17/this-week-in-marketing-and-brand-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/04/17/this-week-in-marketing-and-brand-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aston kutcher]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for hanging in during the hiatus&#8230;I&#8217;m feeling much refreshed after a severely needed vacation.  We will return to our regularly scheduled blog postings on Monday.  In the meantime, here&#8217;s a drive-by glance at this week&#8217;s two biggest stories in marketing and brand strategy:
Twitter is on fire:  You know Twitter&#8217;s hitting the bigtime when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is social media destroying your marketing?</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/31/is-social-media-destroying-your-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/31/is-social-media-destroying-your-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I frequent many Yahoo! groups and bulletin boards frequented by writers and small business owners.  Lately, among the laments about the demise of newspapers and the perils of a shaky economy, I&#8217;ve been hearing an interesting war cry:  &#8220;Social media is a huge waste of time!!! It will distract you!!! Don&#8217;t listen to its siren [...]]]></description>
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		<title>marketing and brand strategy link roundup – monday, march 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/23/marketing-and-brand-strategy-link-roundup-monday-march-23-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/23/marketing-and-brand-strategy-link-roundup-monday-march-23-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mondays have that spinny, reeling, to-do-list spitting out tasks kind of feeling, don&#8217;t they?  Luckily, VOCO has condensed today&#8217;s must-reads into a short and sweet list!

PR is the new marketing:  A nice vlog on the intersections of two former cousins&#8230;now conjoined twins?  [via SmartBrief on Social Media]
AdWeek has released its Magazine Hot List for &#8216;09.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>five signs you can’t handle your marketing yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/17/five-signs-you-cant-handle-your-marketing-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/17/five-signs-you-cant-handle-your-marketing-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In this economy&#8221; (the new way practically every statement made by a human in March 2009 begins), companies are scrambling in an attempt to determine the proper use of their marketing budget.  And it ain&#8217;t easy, especially if you&#8217;re a solopreneur, a small business owner, or any other variety of human with a pulse and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cash flow and budgeting for entrepreneurs:  surviving the lean times</title>
		<link>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/13/cash-flow-and-budgeting-for-entrepreneurs-surviving-the-lean-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vococreative.com/blog/2009/03/13/cash-flow-and-budgeting-for-entrepreneurs-surviving-the-lean-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vococreative.com/blog/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I arose with the sun to attend a seminar on cash flow and budgeting presented by my esteemed business advisor, Trish Thomas of Akamai Consulting, and Connor Morganti of Johnson-Morganti, a financial planning and insurance company.
Though the topic is at best snooze-worthy and at worst panic-inducing, I came away with plenty of insight on [...]]]></description>
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