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		<title>How YouTube and Facebook are Killing Innovation and Success</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2012/01/06/how-youtube-and-facebook-are-killing-innovation-and-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've all heard the stories. The twenty-first century equivalents of Daniel Boone, Paul Bunyon and Paul Revere. Amazing and larger than life. First, there's YouTube. And then there's Facebook, as "documented" in the film "The Social Network."]]></description>
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		<title>The Taming of the Screw</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/11/22/the-taming-of-the-screw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forward Thinking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darwinism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I had coffee with a respected colleague. Naturally, the conversation turned to the economy (old vs. new), the internet (web 2.0 vs. web 3.0), and how such dynamic parameters impact companies in pursuit of growth.]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy and its Marketing Intelligence Agency</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/11/16/best-buy-and-its-marketing-intelligence-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/11/16/best-buy-and-its-marketing-intelligence-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forward Thinking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TWICE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Raise your hand if you think of Best Buy as a down &#038; dirty in the details marketing/marketing intelligence company? What? No hands raised? That's okay, I was in your camp too prior to this as well.]]></description>
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		<title>Launched: VT802.us</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/10/19/launched-vt802-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-commerce & Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then an idea/project comes along that's too good to pass up. Maybe the appeal is its off-beat nature. Maybe it's the challenge. Maybe it's the potential for fun. Maybe it's the chance to shine. Maybe it's the bragging rights. Our homegrown VT802.us is all of the above and then some.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a big duck or a small talker?</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/08/30/are-you-a-big-duck-or-a-small-talker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/08/30/are-you-a-big-duck-or-a-small-talker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Fundamentals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership & Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NPO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I stopped for a quick lunch. While I wasn't intentionally trying to ease drop on the table next to me I heard one person say to the other, "...but we're not a big company..." They all then proceeded to piss and moan about the symptoms of lack of process, lack of structure, wishy-washy management, etc.]]></description>
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		<title>A Classic Case of Sisyphean Marketing Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/07/15/a-classic-case-of-sisyphean-marketing-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/07/15/a-classic-case-of-sisyphean-marketing-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Fundamentals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SEO, SEM & Emailing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the story goes, I had lunch with a colleague earlier in the week. JK—not his/her real name—is a fairly hardcore SEO aficionado. JK's motto is:  Tune it. Tweak it. Tighten it. Repeat. JK is also fond of: Mo' traffic. Mo' traffic. Mo' traffic.]]></description>
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		<title>Betting the Farm on Natural and Organic Foods</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/02/25/betting-the-farm-on-natural-and-organic-foods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/02/25/betting-the-farm-on-natural-and-organic-foods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Fundamentals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership & Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Enterprise Report Mag]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Zen Management Makes Millions&#8221; by Lee Lusardi Connor (NYReport.com, 1 February 2011). Truth be told, I still do quite a bit of reading offline. I imagine my brain has been trained to consume more comfortably and completely when I&#8217;m not always nose to screen. Admittedly,  I struggle with my lack of green-ness in this area. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation Rejuvenation</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/01/11/innovation-rejuvenation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2011/01/11/innovation-rejuvenation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership & Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading Between the Lines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CIO Mag]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["How to Restart Innovation" by CIO Executive Council. Let's be honest, this is not rocket science. That said, let's also dig a bit deeper and harvest some gold from between the lines.]]></description>
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		<title>Conquering Business Superstition</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2010/10/13/conquering-business-superstition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2010/10/13/conquering-business-superstition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Fundamentals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-commerce & Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite often business life is not much different than personal life—although it should be.  When off the clock,  cause &#38; effect applied incorrectly is called superstition, myth, etc. Yet the same misdirected correlations between 9.00a and 5.00p is called a project, or worse still insight. Same use of illusion but a different belief in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Must Read Courtesy of Sir Richard Branson</title>
		<link>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2010/09/28/a-must-read-courtesy-of-sir-richard-branson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alchemyunited.com/2010/09/28/a-must-read-courtesy-of-sir-richard-branson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Simchock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AU Approved]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;15 Small Business Lessons from Richard Branson&#8221; as reported by Ann Handley (American Express&#8217; OpenForum.com, 23 September 2010). In a word, brilliant. So much so that nothing needs to be added. Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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