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	<title>Chris Bailey :: Thinking Big Thoughts on Business, Work, and Life</title>
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		<title>Hush Up And Just Enjoy Those Super Bowl Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always fascinated with the day-after fallout of the Super Bowl adfest. There are plenty of people doing their Monday morning armchair quarterbacking thing, lamenting how terrible the commercials were and how much they continue to suck year after year. It&#8217;s at this point I try to take my branding hat off and recognize something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2010/02/hush-up-and-just-enjoy-those-super-bowl-ads/</link>
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		<title>I’d Rather Be The Tortoise Than The Hare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guest Creator is the wonderful Amanda McGuckin Hager, Founder of GoMarket.me, an online Marketing Mentor. She&#8217;s also the Regional Marketing Manager for North American Programs for SolarWinds Inc. Connect with her on LinkedIn or on Twitter where she is known as @shoogie.

On Friday, I had the honor of speaking on Chris Bailey’s Entrepreneur Panel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2010/02/i%e2%80%99d-rather-be-the-tortoise-than-the-hare/</link>
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		<title>The Battle Between Getting Things Done And Yummy Chocolate Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/">Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich from Radiolab</a> talked about an interesting experiment conducted by Stanford University professor Baba Shiv. It turns out that when we store all of these tasks (or anything really) inside our brain's short-term memory, our rational self becomes overloaded giving our emotional self space to take over. It certainly gives greater insight into the panicky feeling I was wrestling with earlier today. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2010/01/the-battle-between-getting-things-done-and-yummy-chocolate-cake/</link>
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		<title>Community, Not Campaigns For Small Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your business still thinking of marketing as a set of campaigns? It might be time to switch gears and start thinking more about connecting with prospects and customers via community. <a href="http://www.mad.co.uk/Main/News/Articlex/df5f4ea6946b4fc6a704f0f5b70c44f2/Coke-drops-campaign-sites-in-favour-of-social-media.html">Today, we learned that two major brands are rethinking their strategies</a> (<a href="http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5487/Coke-Abandons-Plans-for-Campaign-Websites-to-Invest-in-Social-Media.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HubSpot+%28HubSpot%29">also read here</a>)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2010/01/community-not-campaigns-for-small-business/</link>
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		<title>My Blogging Quandary&#8230;I Need Your Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's the challenge that is weighing rather heavily on me as we enter the new year. As a blogger, I just don't feel I can keep up with two primary professional blogs and a business blog for BaileyHill Media (let alone trying to continually grow BaileyHill Media's business). I now realize that what I once loved to do has become an arduous chore and I don't like it. So while there's no perfect solution I'm trying to figure out what will allow me to sustain my passion for blogging ideas, my desire for further building a community here, and my commitment to helping our growing stable of clients at BaileyHill Media.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2010/01/my-blogging-quandary-i-need-your-help/</link>
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		<title>The Best of Gravit8 Interactivity 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prompted and inspired by Jay Ehret (@TheMarketingGuy), I thought I would take a look at which blogposts were the most popular in 2009 based on total pageviews. Here they are, ranked by popularity and with my own reflections:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/12/the-best-of-gravit8-interactivity-2009/</link>
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		<title>Want to See More Interesting Blogs? Let&#039;s Nurture Smart Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I honestly believe that if you carry influence in the online space, you have an obligation to use your voice to not just lift up familiar folks you know, but perhaps more importantly, give visibility to smart and talented folks who are less known. This goes triple for A-listers, some of which are better than others in this regard. So for 2010, let's make it a point to share visibility with other smart folks who need more attention to their ideas.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/12/want-to-see-more-interesting-blogs-lets-nurture-smart-writers/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Website All Pretty and No Purpose?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most consumer-driven websites unfortunately don't focus on the all-important Ask, which is the primary funnel for directing visitors toward taking an action. But there are a few things you can do to ensure that your site not only looks great but fulfills the investment you've made in your web presence.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/12/is-your-website-all-pretty-and-no-purpose/</link>
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		<title>What Value Is A Piece Of Paper?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a rather lively conversation taking place at Olivier Blanchard&#8217;s The BrandBuilder blog about social media &#8220;certification&#8221; being promoted by the International Social Media Association (ISMA). I put certification in quotations because I question the very idea of whatever this organization is pushing as true certification. I&#8217;ve been on the professional association side of things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/12/what-value-is-a-piece-of-paper/</link>
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		<title>What Charlie Weis Can Teach Us About Job Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More football, you exclaim? Yes, its another football-related post. Sorry friends...when it's Fall and the weather starts to cool, my mind gets a bit preoccupied with all things pigskin. If you have no interest in the NFL, just bear with me for a few more weeks and I'll try to make this as painless as possible. Now, to the issue at hand and it involves the gentleman over to the left. He might be recognizable or he might not. His name is Charlie Weis and earlier this week he officially became the <em>former</em> Head Coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. To paraphrase Marc Antony (Roman not singer), I come neither to bury Weis nor to praise him. Instead, I think there are a couple of career lessons we can extract from Charlie Weis's fate.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/12/what-charlie-weis-can-teach-us-about-job-failure/</link>
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