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		<title>My first ebook</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/07/12/my-first-ebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Friday, June 25th I published my first ebook. The book is call "The Internet is Blue: How Democrats are winning online and what Republicans can do about it". The book sounds (and is) aimed at a political audience but I think that plenty of markets could still find it a useful read. So I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Caffeine: Need your SEO fix?</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/05/24/google-caffeine-need-your-seo-fix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new face of Search Engine Optimization.

 photo credit: quinn.anya
Here at Veribatim we've been following SEO trends for years, watching the gimmicks and trick used to put a site at the top of a list. We've done work in the optimization field before, but I'll readily admit its not been our forte. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity and Technology: Why Social Media is So Important</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/05/18/charity-and-technology-why-social-media-is-so-important/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/05/18/charity-and-technology-why-social-media-is-so-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[knowing your audience]]></category>
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The overall message of this video is find where your audience is and go there. More and more young people, Gen Y, Gen X and rapidly even babyboomers use some kind of social media. So charities need to be on these sites if they want to reach people. The old ways just aren't good enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linked-In: mobile is the next level</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/05/03/linked-in-mobile-is-the-next-level/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/05/03/linked-in-mobile-is-the-next-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks ago LinkedIn announced their new blackberry app, allowing you to take LinkedIn with you wherever you go.
I have to admit I was already macgyvering a way to do this. I synced up my blackberry to Outlook and then downloaded the Linked-In Outlook plugin. This made life slower but eventually all my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who hates FourSquare?</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/04/14/who-hates-foursquare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/04/14/who-hates-foursquare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently everyone who doesn't use it.

A good friend of mine who follows me on Twitter and Facebook suddenly says, "I think I'm going to stop following you." So say, "What? Why?" And she says, "I'm so sick of those FourSquare updates. I could care less. They are annoying. No one wants to know you're 'mayor' [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Durable Smartphone</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/03/26/the-most-durable-smartphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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Last week I recorded my update from Galveston where I was working on Hurricane Ike relief efforts with my church youth group. During that time my poor blackberry took quite a beating. So I decided to blog today about the blackberry's durability. Oh, and I made some snide remarks about the iPhone/iPad (because I can't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Your Kids think the Future of Tech will Be</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/03/19/what-your-kids-think-the-future-of-tech-will-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/03/19/what-your-kids-think-the-future-of-tech-will-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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So, while many of you got to hang out at SXSW, learning new tech, I hung out with our future. I was on a mission trip to Galveston rebuilding homes hit but hurricane Ike. So I spent a lot of time with 11-14 year old kids. They had smart phones, gadgets, knew about wifi and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Companies Don&#8217;t Adopt New Tech</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/02/21/why-companies-dont-adopt-new-tech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2010/02/21/why-companies-dont-adopt-new-tech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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Here's the graph:

Glad to be back!
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		<title>Marketing: Obvious Gimmicks that Still Work</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2009/11/09/marketing-obvious-gimmicks-that-still-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2009/11/09/marketing-obvious-gimmicks-that-still-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veribatim.com/blog/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some marketing efforts that just fall into the category of Gimmicks. Marketers use these cheap little "tricks"  to get an action out of people (purchase, share, whatever). These tricks range from taste-testing products to sappy stories made for a few heart-string tugs. Most of us are aware of these gimmicks. We allow them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Younger, Sexier Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2009/09/22/a-younger-sexier-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2009/09/22/a-younger-sexier-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veribatim.com/blog/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter made some subtle design changes recently and I couldn't help but comment on them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sleek designs. Except the new bird is kinda weird. But here's my problem: why is Twitter spending money on a redesign when they could put that cash towards greater/smoother functionality or finding a monetization [...]]]></description>
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