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	<title>Alchemy United &#124; Your vision . Our passion . Success realized &#187; Clearing The Editors&#8217; Hurdle</title>
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		<title>Friends don&#8217;t let friends blame IT</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/05/19/friends-dont-let-friends-blame-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth be told I am by nature a geek. Not that I'm necessarily a shiny new object kind of guy. But I do appreciate technology, it's application, and it's potential for positive impact.]]></description>
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		<title>A Tweet Is Not A Like</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2010/09/21/a-tweet-is-not-a-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;5 Winning Social Media Campaigns to Learn From&#8221; by Zachary Sniderman (Mashable.com, 14 September 2010). Full disclosure, this isn&#8217;t Clearing The Editors&#8217; Hurdle as much as it&#8217;s Shameless Self-Promotion. But we don&#8217;t have a category for SSP. Maybe we should? The point to be made here is not in the article itself. It&#8217;s more or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content? Or production &amp; distribution?</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2010/06/30/content-or-production-distribution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are We Ready to Play With Pay? The Content Value Reproposition&#8221; by Steve Smith (EContent Magazine, April 2010). As the internet allowed islands of content to drift together, the cost of being an info consuming traveler  fell, drastically. Aside from the benefit of no more dead trees, it doesn&#8217;t get any cheaper than free, does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bees or flies? &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/10/01/bees-or-flies-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing The Editors' Hurdle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a little bit of shameless self-promotion&#8230; The original post dates back to June or so. This letter was printed in the September of issue of CRM Magazine (online: www.DestinationCRM.com). Unfortunately, CRM did not post the letters of the September issue on their web site. As you know, they have done so in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less news isn&#8217;t bad news</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/09/17/less-news-isnt-bad-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for some shameless self-promotion&#8230; &#8220;News Unfit for Print&#8221; by Michelle Manafy (EContent Magazine, May 2009). The article dates back to May but what&#8217;s new is that EContect printed an AU submitted letter. Please take a moment to read what we thought and they printed. Ironically, EContent does not post printed letters on their web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a realtor, staging matters (and other late night thoughts) &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/06/11/ask-a-realtor-staging-matters-and-other-late-night-thoughts-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/06/11/ask-a-realtor-staging-matters-and-other-late-night-thoughts-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fortune Small Business Small Business Makeover: Cloz &#8211; Dress for Success&#8221; by Patricia B. Gray (Fortune Small Business, May 2009).  This post is a follow up to a post a couple weeks back. Full disclosure: It is also shameless self-promotion. The news&#8230; FSB  decided to print (on their Letters page) an edited version of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome of Fantasy Island? &#8211; Follow up</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/06/07/welcome-of-fantasy-island-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/06/07/welcome-of-fantasy-island-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a (shameless self-promoting) follow up to a post a couple weeks back on an article by Ms. Sharon Machlis (&#8220;Opinion: When head counts are low, take time to save time&#8221;, ComputerWorld Mag, 18 May 2009). The AU blog post was also posted as a comment to Ms. Machlis&#8217; article. In this week&#8217;s print [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real e-proof is in the real e-details &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/01/10/the-proof-is-in-the-real-details-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2009/01/10/the-proof-is-in-the-real-details-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Web Sales with a Human Touch&#8221; by Edward H Baker is in the latest issue of Strategy+Business (www.Strategy-Business.com). The post about the letter in was back in November. Here is what they printed. Go AU! Regarding your article &#8220;Web Sales with a Human Touch&#8221; (by Edward H. Baker, Autumn 2008), is it really the technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey says&#8230; (Too often, nothing) &#8211; Follow up</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2008/12/08/survey-says-too-often-nothing-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2008/12/08/survey-says-too-often-nothing-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hope Rising&#8221; by Computer World editor Don Tennant (Computer World Magazine, November 2008). A couple weeks back there was a post about this editorial as well as AU email into Mr. Tennant. And here is the edited version that appeared in the 8 December 2008 print issue. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be available online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service is in the eye of the beholder &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2008/12/01/service-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2008/12/01/service-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow up to the letter submitted to CRM Mag as inspired by &#8220;Self-Service Is Just Less-Than-Full Service&#8221; by Lior Arussy. Good news! The editors decided it was worthy of their print version, as well as posting it on their web site.  To read it please click here. Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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