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		<title>My Speaking Idea For WordCamp Victoria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plans are coming together beautifully for the next WordCamp Victoria, being held January 14th (only 2 months away) at at the University of Victoria, Social Sciences &#038; Mathematics (SSM) building. Here&#8217;s my idea: Wild About Weaver: A (nearly) WYSYWYG CSS Wrangler Do you want to make some tweaks to your WordPress site, but pale at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Ways to Make Twitter Suck Less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago at the gym, a business owner, whom I know and respect for her great blog posts and use of Facebook, confessed to me &#8220;I&#8217;m a Twitter dropout. I hate all of its rules, and the conversation there is so stupid! I don&#8217;t want to know about the new pants people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November &#8211; No Makeup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if, for 30 days in November, you experimented with a new look? One that goes against the current fashions, and sets you a little bit apart? What if, for doing this, you raised money for a good cause? Does it sound like Movember? Exactly &#8211; but what if you, like most women, are challenged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideas for YYJ WordCamp in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just went on the website of wordcampvictoria.ca and submitted three possible speaking topics. One of the requirements is to post the topics somewhere &#8211; seems like the blog is the best place! Besides, some weeks ago I decided to blog more and even challenged myself to do 100 days of blogging. Much as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Tunes, off the charts and on the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my sons and I cleaned the house and did a ton of laundry. Chores like that require you to crank the tunes, and so of course we had the XBox 360 blaring through the TV speakers the current heavy-rotation favourite: Midnight Oil. I find it fascinating that three boys born in 1994, 1997 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laundry Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today &#8211; no, make that since yesterday because I did 3 loads after work &#8211; I have done more laundry than I think I&#8217;ve ever done in my life. 9, maybe 10 loads of clothing for four people, towels, sheets, linens, duvets&#8230; in short, everything I could stuff into a washer and a dryer. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No time to blog?  Try this approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent a very pleasant couple of hours with about a dozen BC government workers who are all interested in &#8220;citizen engagement&#8221;, aka finding effective ways of generating conversation, listening to feedback, soliciting input from the public, mainly via digital media.  The organizer of the Citizen Engagement Drinks event is Heather Bauer, @HBtwocents on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordspring.ca/2011/09/no-time-to-blog-try-this-approach/</link>
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		<title>The Power of a Good Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home late tonight, because I just got back from eWomen Network, a group I&#8217;ve been attending for 4 years pretty consistently. EWomen Network is a business networking group for women, and it&#8217;s run very well by Kerry Brown.   Tonight there must&#8217;ve been 75 women there &#8211; and I knew easily 50 of them! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordspring.ca/2011/09/the-power-of-a-good-network/</link>
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		<title>Learning about learning and communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with my (sort of) new job writing and working on social media for Netscribe, I&#8217;ve got some big plans for the next year or so: grad school. I haven&#8217;t officially applied, but here in Victoria we are fortunate to have Royal Roads University, which is geared toward working professionals.  They&#8217;ve got a Professional Communications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordspring.ca/2011/09/learning-about-learning-and-communication/</link>
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		<title>Public Sector Negotiations, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, thanks to Shaun, Vikki, Jacquie, and mdodd (sorry, I don&#8217;t know your first name) for clarifying the situation with IEPs.  This is the kind of information that should get out during the negotiations, and that the public hasn&#8217;t necessarily heard.  I know the dedication of three of you personally, and believe that most teachers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordspring.ca/2011/09/public-sector-negotiations-part-2/</link>
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