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	<description>Adventures in social media, user experience, Agile, Scrum and digital project management</description>
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		<title>Everything&#8217;s Amazing &amp; Nobody&#8217;s Happy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great observational comedy by Louis CK. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.


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		<title>You know when you&#8217;re in trouble when&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The could be anywhere. The company you work for still uses an internal postal system. Your bug-tracking software maintenance licence expired two years ago. Your account managers say &#8220;yes&#8221; to every client request. To book resources, you need to fill in a spreadsheet with six worksheets. Four colleagues in a meeting can&#8217;t tell you what [...]


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		<title>Why not to (always) trust recruiters&#8217; advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why not to (always) trust recruiters&#8217; advice. A piece of advice and &#8220;wisdom&#8221; I received from a certain nameless Director of Major Players in 2000 (now departed). &#8220;Go back to college. Learn (formerly Macromedia, now Adobe) Lingo. Learn how to create CD-ROMs in Director.&#8221; Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t take heed of this, was aware of an [...]


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		<title>Tips and Tricks to Save Money While Running a Startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This interesting post on Ask HN listed a number of things tried and tested at Twilio, a Bay Area startup offering an API for making/receiving telephone calls and sending/receiving text messages: Use the free version of everything, and when you run into the limitations tell the company you are working with that you are a [...]


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		<title>Ice-T &#8211; High Rollers</title>
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		<title>YouTube Server Error Message</title>
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		<title>Project artifacts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What project artifacts do your digital web development projects typically generate? Here are some of the basics I deal with: Statement of work (SOW) Project plan (start/end dates, milestones, etc.) Briefs or briefing documents Cost estimates or budget sheets Purchase order(s) (PO) Invoices Agendas (for meetings) Status reports (weekly) Issues/risks Financial reconciliations Receipts Invoices Functional [...]


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<li><a href='http://blog.martincrockett.com/general/basecamp-alternatives/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Basecamp Alternatives'>Basecamp Alternatives</a> <small>PM-Sherpa lists a number of web-based project collaboration tools as...</small></li>
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		<title>Deactivating Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective today, 20 May 2010, I&#8217;ve deactivated my Facebook account due to my concerns over privacy, general lack of use and interest in better online services. Deactivate your Facebook account I will be deleting my account on 01 June 2010 &#8211; unless I get a change of heart. You can read more about the reasons [...]


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		<title>Act as if</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JIM: I want to talk to you about appearance. Most of you dress like shit. I don&#8217;t know what your financial situation is like right now but you need to buy at least one decent suit. There is a minimum level of aesthetic professionalism that we have here. In a couple of months you&#8217;ll be [...]


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		<title>Motivation, Ari Gold-style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entourage Season 6, Episode 3: Ari Gold makes a motivational speech to Turtle about starting a business. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.


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