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		<title>New Directions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Bonsignore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a writer. Oh sure, I&#8217;ve tried other things and scouted out alternative avenues (little known fact: I once owned a yoga and Pilates studio), but the fact of the matter is, I&#8217;m a writer. I&#8217;ve always been a writer. My husband delights in the ever-so-embarrassing book of haikus that I wrote when I was...]]></description>
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		<title>Birthdays and the Mom Gift</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say that my mother made a big deal out of birthdays would be an understatement. Every year for my birthday, she&#8217;d put together an enormous feast &#8212; homemade meatballs, a roasted turkey, cold cuts, potato salad, a watermelon boat filled with fresh fruit and at least two kinds of cake &#8212; all for the...]]></description>
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		<title>PowerPoint is Misunderstood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I was griping about PowerPoint. Honestly, it&#8217;s hard not to. But I&#8217;m coming to understand that it&#8217;s not the software that&#8217;s the problem, it&#8217;s how we use it. A client asked me to &#8220;put together a canned PowerPoint&#8221; that they could distribute to a broad audience. This slide deck would require slides (obviously)...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Creative Professional&#8217;s Guide to Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 13:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative professionals are in a strange, unique and interesting position. We&#8217;re not plumbers or electricians who show up with parts and tools to fix your emergency. Nobody has a design or content emergency (not that they know of, anyway). How do you price a service with intangible value? What is your personal philosophy about money,...]]></description>
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		<title>How Old is &#8220;Too Old?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Creative Freelancer Blog, contributor Laurel Black seems to have struck a nerve with her post asking if she was too old to be a designer. 80 comments later (and counting), the merits and disadvantages of age vs. experience are still being debated. What do you think? How old is &#8220;too old?&#8221; Does...]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy For All Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an endless amount of buzz about content strategy and how it can improve your corporate website. I&#8217;m a firm believer in content strategy and the results that it can deliver. Not familiar with content strategy? The idea is that the presentation of information &#8212; design, navigation and site structure &#8212; should be built around...]]></description>
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		<title>A New Kind of Client Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of an over-responsive client? Neither had I until I met this one. Now I have fodder for a new post on the Creative Freelancer Blog. I also recently posted an item about my Friday afternoon victories. What&#8217;s not to love about Fridays? Follow this link to read all of my posts...]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle Over the Serial Comma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once had a job interview where I was asked for my position on the serial comma. For those who don&#8217;t know one comma from another, allow me to explain. Serial comma: &#8220;I met with Bob, Mary, and Sue.&#8221; Non-serial comma: &#8220;The recipe calls for butter, eggs and flour.&#8221; The Chicago Manual of Style is...]]></description>
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		<title>The Plan for 2011</title>
		<link>http://clarifyingcomplexideas.com/2011/01/plan-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Bonsignore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your plan for 2011? Are you branching out into new areas? Trying new things? Starting fresh? Or does your 2010 work flow directly into the new year without interruption? I&#8217;ve made some plans for change in the coming year. I&#8217;ve submitted proposals to be a featured speaker at conferences. This is a big change...]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Reward?</title>
		<link>http://clarifyingcomplexideas.com/2010/12/whats-your-reward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisa Bonsignore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What&#8217;s your reward?&#8221; she asked me. I had no idea what she was talking about. &#8220;You know, your special treat for another successful year in business?&#8221; &#8220;Uh&#8230; I don&#8217;t really give myself a reward, other than waking up January 1 and starting all over again,&#8221; I replied. She shook her head. &#8220;You should have a...]]></description>
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