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		<title>How to Work That Very LARGE Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose I&#8217;ve always dreaded networking events for the same reason I was a lousy blind dater in college. Polite chit chat with strangers comes hard for me. Most of my best dates were with people I already knew. I married my best friend . . . and he still is. If we&#8217;d met at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Ready to Work a Very LARGE Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 05:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Houston Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) has been in business since 1969 and is the world&#8217;s premiere gathering of resources and vendors in offshore drilling, exploration, and production. Last year, attendance at the four-day conference crested 73,000. This year, the event has been expanded from Reliant Center to Reliant Arena as well. They expect some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guess the Header Photo — 17 April 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been here before?
Drop me a comment and tell your story. First (or most recent) time you were there, what you remember, how you feel about this space.
It&#8217;s coming on time for another margarita contest but this one is way too easy . . .
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		<title>The Chapel Bridge — Lucerne, Switzerland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest mystery photo identified: the Chapel Bridge in Lucerne, Switzerland. The bridge was almost totally lost in 1993, but has been masterfully -- though perhaps incompletely -- restored.
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		<title>Best of the Best — Saluting the 2009 SXSW Web Award Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If a tree falls in the forest, does anyone know? For some reason I&#8217;ve felt our most gifted Web designers and content providers for 2009 were being recognized deep in some kind of forest during the recent South by Southwest Web Awards in Austin and, since, have fallen even further off the radar. This post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myths About Freelancers — and a Valuable Lesson On Blogging</title>
		<link>http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/2009/04/myths-about-freelancers/</link>
		<comments>http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/2009/04/myths-about-freelancers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I had in my mind that blogging was a little like ReTweeting &#8212; in that, if you posted links back to the original post, you could recycle others&#8217; content and help the original author extend their reach. It&#8217;s also (or can be) a lazy way of generating material but I somehow thought, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz #3: Still Putting Up Mystery Header Photos</title>
		<link>http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/2009/03/quiz-3-still-putting-up-mystery-header-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for nomads and wanderers &#8212; is that the same thing? &#8212; who might know where this photo was taken. If so, 1st person to post a comment here gets recognition on Twitter, no increase in fortune at all, and my eternal gratitude.
Here&#8217;s the thing: I&#8217;m really looking for more than just the name of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’ve Joined ProBlogger’s 31-Day Challenge (to a Better Blog) . . .</title>
		<link>http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/2009/03/ive-joined-probloggers-31-day-challenge-to-a-better-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . and so should you.

Okay, I&#8217;ll grant that plenty of you (particularly those along the right column here) are quite adept at blogging, at the whole SEO piece, and at the graphic niceties as well. Me, I&#8217;m new here in cyber-space and am learning OJT, as I go. Relying heavily on &#8220;Wordpress for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answer to Quiz #2: the Washington Monument</title>
		<link>http://ewkrausecom.com/theportal/2009/03/quiz-2-recognize-this-header-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I offered a contest prize (to the 1st quiz) of one top shelf margarita, redeemable in any of three Texas cities, I began to see more visitors to my blog!
In future, I may need to offer other inducements to keep up traffic &#8212; but not every time. That would be too predictable, not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postscript: What Does WOW! Customer Service Look Like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Army Wife</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What does varsity-level customer service look like? Follow these links.]]></description>
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