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		<title>Higher Education and Social Media: Unlikely Friends?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As students and faculty return to college campuses this fall, there is a new push to engage the educational community with social media tools. Yesterday Facebook announced its Universities on Facebook Page, featuring ads for discount products and details on how to involve your specific educational community through the use of Facebook Pages. While this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay it Forward, Every Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently launched a website focused exclusively on the concept of &#8220;digital humanity.&#8221; In other words, bringing good acts to the virtual scene and celebrating them. Dighu.com provides an ongoing forum to share your good deed(s) for the day, and see how others are paying it forward in different areas of your life. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Simple is Easier Said Than Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is a great example of simplicity. A straightforward concept with a clean user interface. It may almost be too simple because I don&#8217;t fully &#8220;get it&#8221; sometimes. That could be that I&#8217;m still searching for my purpose on Twitter. As you might guess I have a hard time keeping anything beyond a URL under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/keeping-it-simple-is-easier-said-than-done/</link>
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		<title>How to Find a &#8220;Real&#8221; Social Media Expert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step one: Create a Twitter account. Step two: Add &#8220;Social Media Consultant&#8221; into the Bio line. Step three: Let the clients roll in. Seriously though, that&#8217;s pretty much all it takes to call yourself as a Social Media Expert these days. Even though most people in our office would consider themselves experts in the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/how-to-find-a-real-social-media-expert/</link>
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		<title>How to Be an Effective Salesperson When You Hate Selling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday night I received unexpected news that my project manager needed to be out of the office for the whole week. With baby in arms, I immediately went from &#8220;I love being domestic&#8221; mode to &#8220;shit, I have to go back to work&#8221; mode. To be honest, after the initial panic wore off I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/how-to-be-an-effective-salesperson-when-you-hate-selling/</link>
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		<title>Set a Timer: Get it Done! A Guide to Enjoying the Rest of Your Day.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past I have always sort of scoffed at those little motivational messages, like &#8220;Set a timer for 5 minutes and finish your task!&#8221; Pffft. Whatever, I&#8217;ll get it done in my own time, my own way. Well, now I realize that this is actually a very effective way to get a lot done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/set-a-timer-get-it-done-a-guide-to-enjoying-the-rest-of-your-day/</link>
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		<title>Working from Home: Merging the Domestic &amp; The Professional Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s revelation: I like working from home. This sounds silly. Who wouldn&#8217;t? Well for this workaholic mom, after weeks of feeling anxiety about not being in the office, I have come to a place where I am enjoying being at home every day, and I also do not feel especially compelled to be at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/working-from-home-merging-the-domestic-the-professional-experience/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating the New Arrival and Yes, Still Getting Work Done!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m officially that negligent blogger! I have a good excuse however. I&#8217;ve spent the past few weeks anxiously awaiting the arrival of our third child, and this Mother&#8217;s Day, I was blessed to finally meet her! Since leaving the hospital early last week I&#8217;ve been able to catch up on my email, get updates on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/celebrating-the-new-arrival-and-yes-still-getting-work-done/</link>
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		<title>How to Be a Good Creative Director: Giving Constructive &amp; Appropriate Feedback During the Design Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Use your creativity.&#8221; &#8220;Make it pop.&#8221; &#8220;Can you make the logo bigger?&#8221; &#8220;Make it look just like [insert industry leading website here]&#8230;&#8221; If design feedback had a 10 commandments of things not to say to your designer, these four would very possibly be among them. Designers think in colors and styles and audience, and they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuchsiamac.com/how-to-be-a-good-creative-director-giving-constructive-appropriate-feedback-during-the-design-process/</link>
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		<title>Enjoy the Silence: Brainstorming Outside of the Daily Grind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever realized how a little bit of quiet time can result in some really great ideas? I think this is why people have revelations in the shower. It&#8217;s the 15 minutes in your day when you aren&#8217;t being distracted or stimulated by email, co-workers, kids or the general buzz of daily life. A [...]]]></description>
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