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		<title>Go and trip yourself up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A close family member, I recently observed, walks around with their eyes strained on the floor in front of them. They rarely look up, occasionally converse and mainly keep their head down. Its okay we&#8217;ve talked about it. Their reasoning (which is fine and practical) is that they don&#8217;t want to trip over. 
Business is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making money or making an impact?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fear for social media at the moment. As the masses start their reserved adoption of social media and the ROI agenda heightens, are we not going to lose the original intent of social media? That is to engage, connect, participate and converse. Something the early adopters have found so exciting. Seriously, why is there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its all about people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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Guns don&#8217;t kill people, people do. Computers don&#8217;t throw out crap, people do. Spreadsheets don&#8217;t truly measure success, people do. Bill posters don&#8217;t grab peoples attention, people do. Marketing doesn&#8217;t sell more, people do. Products don&#8217;t sell themselves, people do. Systems don&#8217;t get more out of people, people do. Connections don&#8217;t happen on their own, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://annholman.co.uk/?p=1033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Been listening to Sting&#8217;s &#8220;If I Ever Lose My Faith In You&#8221; on repeat recently, coupled with reading Douglas Rushkoff&#8217;s latest offering &#8220;Life Inc.&#8221; Faith is &#8216;reliance, trust, belief in, loyalty, sincerity.&#8217; A definition according to The Oxford Dictionary.
Beginning to believe we have lost faith in each other so we have been buying from brands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations &#8211; just saying&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A level playing field&#124; People rather than products&#124; Gifts&#124; Air of excitement&#124; Nervous trepidation&#124; Unorthodox thinking&#124; Too much coffee&#124; Not enough change&#124; Screen time&#124; Insomnia stimulating inspiration&#124; Inert organisations&#124; Flair&#124; Straight jacket actions&#124; Google&#124; Creative remixing&#124; Bags of ideas&#124; Little impact&#124; Trouble at the mill&#124; Going slow fast&#124; The miracles of innovation&#124; The stupidity of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I was wrong!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve said it many times &#8220;all customers are not equal.&#8221; I&#8217;ve even delivered whole seminars on the topic, but lately I&#8217;ve decided I was wrong! All customers are equal especially if you are beginning to build a business community around your brand. How exceptionally arrogant of me to think otherwise.
Customers are equal, they contribute something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What can you do with one wellie boot?</title>
		<link>http://annholman.co.uk/marketing/what-can-you-do-with-one-wellie-boot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much unless you have one leg! The phone wouldn&#8217;t have got far if there had only been one and neither would the computer. Being connected and having connections was always important but more so nowadays as we operate equally online and offline. 
Connections bind communities and strengthen relationships, but it simply doesn&#8217;t work if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josh Chandler &#8211; Interview</title>
		<link>http://annholman.co.uk/marketing/josh-chandler-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of chatting to Josh Chandler last week where we discussed social media and its role in small business. Download it here:
http://joshchandlerblog.com/
It&#8217;s only 15 minutes long and just trying to get some thinking going!

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		<title>Beauty in Business</title>
		<link>http://annholman.co.uk/leadership/beauty-in-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;re going on a treasure hunt today. The prize is finding the beauty in our business. Beauty is everywhere. That building across the street, in the walk you have just been on. The book you have just read, in the lunch you have just eaten, or the photo you just took. Perhaps even in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People are our competitive advantage</title>
		<link>http://annholman.co.uk/technology/people-are-our-competitive-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The groundswell of change is leading to some seismic shifts in the next five particularly for leadership, jobs won&#8217;t change much but the emphasis in your company will:
1. There will always be indispensible people required, except you&#8217;ll need a lot more in your company tomorrow. These people will be &#8216;world class,&#8217; passionate, fully engaged, online, [...]]]></description>
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