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	<title>Kara Kane</title>
	<link>http://www.karakane.net</link>
	<description>Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - M. Kapor</description>
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		<title>Font Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Submerged is an appropriate name for the styling of this font. It would be great to bring this font into Photoshop and put some different colors to the reverse text.

I picked this font simply because it has &#8220;Chocolate&#8221; in its title.

On its face, it isn&#8217;t that impressive. Blase serifs, flourishes on the uppercase letters, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2010/03/24/font-fun/</link>
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		<title>Town of Sardinia Minutes Posted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted PDFs of the Town of Sardinia Board Minutes online.
More to follow!
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		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/12/22/town-of-sardinia-minutes-posted/</link>
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		<title>Trade your rolodex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t actually own a rolodex. I do have a unorganized drawer filled with business cards that I&#8217;ve collected, but as I eschew paper whenever I can, most of my contacts are consolidated into my LinkedIn account and my Outlook contacts.
I&#8217;d like to trade my list of Buffalo-area media contacts and online outlets with someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/12/17/rolodex/</link>
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		<title>A Twitpitch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An email newsletter that I receive suggested that organizations should develop a twitpitch, which is an inelegant word to describe the succinct text-based hook to promote something through twitter and twitter-like communication channels like text messaging. I&#8217;m very happy to see a move away from overdone, overhyped flashy flash videos and back toward what really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/12/02/twitpitch/</link>
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		<title>What I Do in a Day at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copywriting / copyediting / web maintenance / web development/coding / web design / graphic design / customer service / project management / media relations / public relations / media monitoring / marketing / recruitment / alumni relations / event support / photography / photo editing / internal communications / social media communications
This doesn&#8217;t include the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/10/01/what-i-do-in-a-day-at-work/</link>
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		<title>My Letter to the Buffalo News: Buffalo Politicians Who Send Business Outside of Buffalo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s harder than one might think it is to condense one&#8217;s thoughts into 200 words. I couldn&#8217;t do it &#8211; I needed 214.
Words like &#8220;hypocritical,&#8221; &#8220;strident&#8221; and &#8220;presumptuous&#8221; made it into the first draft, but not the final draft.
My letter to the Buffalo News, as submitted, with linky goodness, follows. 
As a web geek and political [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/09/25/hypocrisy-at-its-finest/</link>
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		<title>Payday for Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A horrifying component of the ongoing financial and banking industry scandal &#8211; and I call a scandal, not a meltdown or crisis &#8211; involves the fact that the Federal Reserve stopped tracking M3 in 2006.
What is M3?
Let us explore, for a moment, the Wikipedia entry on Money Supply.


M0: Physical currency. A measure of the money supply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/09/23/payday-for-banks/</link>
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		<title>Educause Survey of College Home Page Content Brings out the Geek in All of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Educause&#8217;s compilation of college web page content from a technical perspective is a fascinating and revealing way of looking at how colleges develop their most public interface with their publics: the home page.
The data available to mine from this &#8211; in terms of what is working for other colleges, and what technologies are being ignored &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/09/15/educause-surveys-college-home-pages/</link>
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		<title>Northeast PRSA Conference: On Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of the sessions I attended at today&#8217;s Northeast PRSA Conference dealt explicitly with social media. The first, on the SMR, or social media release, is the one I will go into detail about here, having already written about it back in April 2008. The second, on blogging ethics, gave me tons and tons to think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/09/11/prsa-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Writing for Electronic Media: Course Outline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the idea to create a course that would reflect on some of the very pressing needs in the communication industry for clear and creative writing skills. Here is an outline for a little course I like to call Writing for Electronic Media. It&#8217;s not the first time this has been taught, nor is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karakane.net/2008/09/04/writing-for-electronic-media-web/</link>
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