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	<title>CONFESSIONS OF A DARN GOOD NETWORKER</title>
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		<title>YOU&#8217;VE LOST CONTROL OF YOUR BRAND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can no longer control your brand. There once was a time when you could create an image for your business. You could buy advertising with traditional media to tell people how great you are.  You could force your ad on the public &#38; they couldn’t avoid it or respond. Now with traditional forms of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/you-cannot-control-your-brand</link>
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		<title>HOW I SCREWED UP ON SOCIAL MEDIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I sent an e-mail to a friend &#38; business prospect asking for permission for Phyllis &#38; me to visit his office to tell him about our social media outsourcing services. Well, I never expected to get this response. “We were talking a few weeks ago about social media strategy &#38; trying to figure out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/how-i-screwed-up-on-social-media</link>
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		<title>SOCIAL MEDIA STUPIDITY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I did a post, titled, “You Really Don’t Want To Do This on LinkedIn.” I told how I’d I received a request from Bob, who I didn’t know very well, to make a business introduction to one of my LinkedIn connections.  However, I had never done business with Bob, so there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/social-media-stupidity</link>
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		<title>A SOCIAL MEDIA LOVE AFFAIR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll never forget the first time I laid eyes on Phyllis Neill, my business partner.  It was August 5, 2009 at 7:59am at Starbucks in Vestavia.  She was sitting patiently at the table near the front window working on her Blackberry. She sent me a message through Twitter saying she was following me.  Since we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/a-social-media-love-affair</link>
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		<title>YOU CAN RAISE MONEY ON FACEBOOK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When friends ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I’m a social media missionary.  This is probably not surprising, but many of my contemporaries don’t understand social media.  My friends constantly tell me, I don’t care what others had for lunch.”  Or “Why don’t those folks on Facebook get a life?” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/you-can-raise-money-on-facebook</link>
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		<title>HOW TO REACH SOME AMAZING PEOPLE USING SOCIAL MEDIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Play this 2 minute podcast   I often hear stories about people who make connections that were not possible before social media. Take my friend, Ruwena Healy, who lives here in Birmingham.  What are the chances of her having national connections? I trained Ruwena who is President of Marketing 24/7 on LinkedIn a couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/how-to-get-national-connections-using-social-media</link>
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		<title>IT&#8217;S NOT THE GRADES YOU MAKE&#8211;IT&#8217;S THE HANDS YOU SHAKE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Play this 2 minute podcast Years ago when my parents &#38; I were going through the process of deciding on college, I remember my father saying, “If you plan on living in Birmingham, you should consider going to a university nearby because that’s where you’ll make your connections.” I hadn’t thought about that conversation until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/its-not-the-grades-you-make-its-the-hands-you-shake</link>
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		<title>WITH SOCIAL MEDIA&#8211;YOU&#8217;RE BUSINESS CAN&#8217;T SUCK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Play this 2 minute podcast Last summer I flew to Orlando to attend a convention.  I arrived in Orlando in the heat of the day, took a fifty minute cab ride to the Marriott World Center that cost almost as much as my Southwest Airline ticket, &#38; was shocked to see a hotel check in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/with-social-media-youre-business-cant-suck</link>
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		<title>YOU REALLY DON&#8217;T WANT TO DO THIS ON LINKEDIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Play this 2 minute podcast Since this happens regularly to me on LinkedIn, I thought it might be insightful. I was watching TV when an e-mail showed up on my Blackberry through LinkedIn.  It said, “David…I’m using your suggestion regarding meeting selective professionals through LinkedIn.  I thought I would give it a shot.  I appreciate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/you-really-dont-want-to-do-this-on-linkedin</link>
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		<title>THE UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES OF OPTING OUT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Play this 2 minute podcast How many of you woke up this morning &#38; said, “I sure hope someone sends me an e-mail?  Getting more e-mails are probably not at the top of your wish list. The problem is I’m an e-mail magnet.  I get the usual e-mails from work, family, &#38; friends, but because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whooyouknow.com/the-unexpected-consequences-of-opting-out</link>
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