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		<title>HOW TO: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Stephanie Marcus


This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
For  all the praise that brand advertisers have for social media, they must  be aware that it’s very much a double-edged sword. And for all the free  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/08/30/how-to-respond-when-social-media-attacks-your-brand/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-to-respond-when-social-media-attacks-your-brand</link>
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		<title>Older Adults Nearly Double Social Media Presence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from Pew Internet found that between April 2009 and May  2010, social networking site usage grew 88% among Internet users aged  55-64, and the 65 and older group’s social networking presence grew 100%  in the same time frame.
Young people still dominate social networks like Facebook (), but their usage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/08/30/older-adults-nearly-double-social-media-presence/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=older-adults-nearly-double-social-media-presence</link>
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		<title>5 Rules for Professional Social Networking Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professional networking has been made exponentially easier with  social media. Years ago, networking meant asking a friend at another  company to submit your resume to his HR department. A particularly  assertive person might have been able to cold-call his way into lunch  with a head honcho. Now, networking means having the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/07/02/5-rules-for-professional-social-networking-success/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=5-rules-for-professional-social-networking-success</link>
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		<title>How Social Media is Changing the Way Government Does Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been plenty of discussion about how  governments are using social media to engage with the general public and  open up  their vast amounts of data to collaborators. The interagency  collaboration occurring behind government firewalls using wikis and  blogs is also well-publicized. A topic that’s received less  attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/07/02/how-social-media-is-changing-the-way-government-does-business/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-social-media-is-changing-the-way-government-does-business</link>
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		<title>HOW TO: Rescue Your Blog From Social Isolation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it: You never really leave high school. The Internet realm  is no different.
It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed  among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the total  tally of blogs hit 126 million, according to BlogPulse. That’s a big  class to climb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/07/01/how-to-rescue-your-blog-from-social-isolation/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-to-rescue-your-blog-from-social-isolation</link>
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		<title>Why Social Experience is the Future of Online Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time you navigate from website to website, or video to video,  you’re driven by the experience.  And yet, when we share content online —  whether it’s scrolling through a Flickr () photostream from your friend’s wedding, or a live-streaming video — we  are often left feeling that something is missing; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/07/01/why-social-experience-is-the-future-of-online-content/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=why-social-experience-is-the-future-of-online-content</link>
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		<title>6 Ways to Manage International Relationships Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the hardest part of having international clients is finding  a way to connect with them. Small businesses often have to worry about  different time zones, different languages, and even different customs  and traditions.
While there’s no catch-all, golden resource that  can solve every problem a small internationally-minded business could  have, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/07/01/6-ways-to-manage-international-relationships-online/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=6-ways-to-manage-international-relationships-online</link>
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		<title>The Campbell River Creative Industries Initiative.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Campbell River, in partnership with the Campbell River First Nations community, INFilm, Strathcona Community Futures, Rivercorp and North Island College, has launched the Campbell River Creative Industries Initiative. This initiative is designed to create a new economic sector in Campbell River that will tap the creative talent and resources of our little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/06/29/the-campbell-river-creative-industries-initiative/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-campbell-river-creative-industries-initiative</link>
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		<title>Leverage Your Social Networks to Effect Corporate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick Pitch: Consumer Reports meets Yelp () for  the purpose of creating buying alliances on behalf of the consumer.
Genius Idea: Groubal is an advocacy platform that  enables U.S. consumers to create online petitions and recruit others to  their causes.
Find your bank’s late payment fees unfair, or upset  that you weren’t compensated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/06/16/leverage-your-social-networks-to-effect-corporate-change/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=leverage-your-social-networks-to-effect-corporate-change</link>
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		<title>5 Teen Social Media Trends that Can Be Applied to Small Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there, ma and pop: Are you hip to Twitter (), Facebook () and the  myriad of other social media tools that are currently at your disposal —  you know, the ones the teens and 20somethings have basically dovetailed  into their everyday lives? Social media may seem like a vapid way for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keepcurrent.ca/2010/06/16/5-teen-social-media-trends-that-can-be-applied-to-small-business/#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=5-teen-social-media-trends-that-can-be-applied-to-small-business</link>
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