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		<title>Target Prospective Donors: Make Your Best Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine this: you’re planning the perfect party for your organization. You can invite anyone, including Oprah or Richard Branson. Who do you want to have in the room? Now that you have had a chance to go through The 8 Essentials (TM) in part one, take this opportunity to meet with your team and board...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/02/02/target-prospective-donors-make-your-best-plan/</link>
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		<title>What The Social World Has to Say About Our Hosts: Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello once again. This is Sheldon from Sysomos back once again to help us prepare for the upcoming Social Media Week. Using Sysomos&#8217; industry leading social media monitoring and analytics software, MAP and Heartbeat, I&#8217;m taking a look at what the world is saying through social media about each of our host cities. Today, we&#8217;ll...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/02/01/what-the-social-world-has-to-say-about-our-hosts-paris/</link>
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		<title>Crowdfunding Bicycle Building- An Interview with Andrew Denham of The Bicycle Academy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bicycle Academy, an innovative plan to train people to build bike frames whilst providing bikes to the developing world, used crowdfunding to generate the funds it needed to set up. The campaign was one of the most successful reward based campaigns raising £40,000 in just a few days. I had the chance to speak...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/02/01/crowdfunding-bicycle-building-an-interview-with-andrew-denham-of-the-bicycle-academy/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on Advisory Board Member Jeff Dachis, CEO of the Dachis Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you peruse our Global Advisory Board, you&#8217;ll see some pretty recognizable names and faces- from Sarah Wood of Unruly Media to Ian Schafer of Deep Focus to Bonin Bough of Pepsi Co. Today, it&#8217;s time to get to know Jeff Dachis. Former Chairman of Razorfish, the world’s largest digital marketing solutions firm. Founder of...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/02/01/spotlight-on-advisory-board-member-jeff-dachis-ceo-of-the-dachis-group/</link>
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		<title>SMW In Your Hands- Our New Mobile Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may (or may not) have noticed that we&#8217;ve been changing things up at Social Media Week- building out new products, enhancing old ones. From the one-click registration system to our new mobile apps and down to our new mobile website, we want to improve the overall experience of SMW. And that means making SMW...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/01/31/smw-in-your-hands-our-new-mobile-site/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 4. Naming your company (The power of Verbal Identity)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest chapter in an increasingly true, start up story. ANOTHER TRUE STORY: It&#8217;s a long, lonely road to finding new clients. But sometimes, there are moments that convince you that yes, you are doing the right thing. Recently, I took that lonely road to see a prospective new client. A big client. A BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/01/31/chapter-4-naming-your-company-the-power-of-verbal-identity/</link>
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		<title>What The Social World Has to Say About Our Hosts: São Paulo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again! Sheldon from Sysomos here with another look at another one of our Social Media Week cities. Using Sysomos&#8217; social media monitoring software, MAP and Heartbeat, I&#8217;ve been looking at what the world is saying through social media about our host cities. Today we&#8217;re taking a look at the talk about São Paulo, Brazil. Doing...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/01/31/what-the-social-world-has-to-say-about-our-hosts-sao-paulo/</link>
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		<title>What The Social World Has to Say About Our Hosts: Miami</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings! Sheldon from Sysomos here again to shed a little light on where we&#8217;ll be going for Social Media Week. Using Sysomos&#8217; powerful social media monitoring and analytic tools, MAP and Heartbeat, I&#8217;m taking a look at what the social web has to say about our Social Media Week host cities. In this post I&#8217;ll...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/01/27/what-the-social-world-has-to-say-about-our-hosts-miami/</link>
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		<title>Get Organized: 8 Questions To Kick Off Your Fundraising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of a new year is a time for setting goals and getting organized. Why wait until 4-5 months before your big event to reach out to sponsors and partners? You can build toward your fundraising goals all year long using the same basic planning principles. To get started, you’ll want to consider where...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/01/26/get-organized-8-questions-to-kick-off-your-fundraising/</link>
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		<title>Social Aspects Of Video Gaming Drawing In More Users &amp; Revenue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Activision, the 33 year-old publisher of 2011&#8242;s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, recently announced that the title became the quickest entertainment product to reach $1 billion in international sales. Developed by Infinity Ward, the first-person shooter accomplished this feat in a mere 16 days. The title even edged out James Cameron&#8217;s 2009 blockbuster Avatar, which...]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2012/01/26/social-aspects-of-video-gaming-drawing-in-more-users-revenue/</link>
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