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		<title>Spend 36 Hours with Lorrie Thomas, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Online Marketing!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2011/01/14/spend-36-hours-with-lorrie-thomas-the-mcgraw-hill-36-hour-course-online-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hansen, CEO of The Socializers, (traveling in Athens, Greece) caught up with Lorrie Thomas, CEO of Web Marketing Therapy (traveling in Austin, TX) today for a quick interview on the release of her new book The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Online Marketing. 1. What&#8217;s one of your favorite Internet Marketing tips from your new book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultraintelligent Machines, Transparency and Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/10/30/ultraintelligent-machines-transparency-and-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an &#8216;intelligence explosion,&#8217; and the intelligence of man would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Age of Video has Arrived! (Or wait, is that, of The Unconscious Realm?)</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/09/29/the-golden-age-of-video-has-arrived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The game has just begun! • GoogleTV is going to rock the world—powered by Android. • AppleTV is going to rocket the impact of micropayments for content. • Netflix is going to be like Switzerland (sort of) • Boxee (now powered by the Intel Atom Processor) could be the secret GoogleTV hardware platform. • Amazon: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Boyle&#8217;s prophetic &#8216;wish list&#8217; made in the 17th Century</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/08/04/robert-boyles-prophetic-wish-list-made-in-the-17th-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Boyle&#8217;s prophetic &#8216;wish list&#8217; made in the 17th Century. Boyle was founder of the &#8221;Invisible College&#8221; at Oxford University. (Thanks to George Ure in the Predictors Group, the LinkedIn Group for RecordedFuture, a new temporal search tool that &#8220;searches the future&#8221;). &#8221;The Prolongation of Life&#8221; &#8211; health improvements mean we are now living longer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The race to organise television</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/07/28/the-race-to-organise-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ad Agencies and Social Media Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following comment was posted as a response by Colin Donald, Director of Futurescape.TV, to an article in the recent Economist: Struggling for control: The humble channel-zapper is evolving in ways that will shape television’s future) Internet-connected TVs lead to massively increased choice and require next-generation EPGs to help viewers navigate the wealth of content. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FACEBOOK CELEBRATES 500MM USERS + FACEBOOK STATS</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/07/22/facebook-celebrates-500mm-users-facebook-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, 21 July 2010 Facebook statistics &#8211; By the numbers by Tom Mason Facebook celebrated 500 million users yesterday. Here&#8217;s some more stats to satisfy your desire for information about the big blue social network&#8230; The average Facebook user: Has 130 friends Spends around 1250 minutes on Facebook per month. Creates around 70 pieces of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Social Media Checklist by JWT Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/06/29/the-social-media-checklist-by-jwt-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excited to be included in JWT&#8217;s Social Media Checklist 2010 at JWT Intelligence. Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on The Dachis Group/SOMESSO Social Business Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/05/18/nathaniel-hansen-published-in-marketing-week-greeces-leading-marketing-industry-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 15:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on The Dachis Group/SOMESSO Social Business Summit by Nathaniel Hansen (Held on March 18, 2010 at Limkokwing University in the Mayfair District, London, UK) Published originally on May 17, 2010 in Marketing Week, Greece&#8217;s leading marketing publication. www.marketingweek.gr On March 18, 2010, I was the sole representative of Greece in the External Customer Facing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An excerpt from Robert Scoble&#8217;s experience at the F8 conference&#8230;Amazing stuff!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/04/23/an-excerpt-from-robert-scobles-experience-at-the-f8-conference-amazing-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook’s ambition by ROBERT SCOBLE on APRIL 22, 2010 1. It gets Facebook plastered all over the web. Already Facebook likes are on many many sites and I’d expect to see Facebook’s new social features to show up on at least 30% of the web’s most popular sites within a month. 2. It lets us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NO FACEBOOK FOR PRIESTS &#8211; Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/04/22/326/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NO FACEBOOK FOR PRIESTS APRIL 22, 2010 ATHENS, GREECE (Source: kathimerini) A prominent bishop has warned priests to take extra care when using Facebook and perhaps even avoid the social networking site altogether to avoid becoming embroiled in situations that could embarass the Church. Archbishop Irenaios of Crete sent a circular yesterday in which he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool ideas!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/04/22/cool-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cool #1 &#8211; Social Shopping moves forward another step: Jodi Bricker, Vice President of Digital for Levi’s® Americas said, “We’re creating a new social shopping experience that will change the way people shop online and, frankly, make buying jeans more fun. We’re excited to pioneer this new technology and help our loyal fans connect with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marvin Towler, co-founder of The Socializers, identified as one of 16 people who inspire the World on Arianna Huffington&#8217;s blog!!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/04/19/marvin-towler-co-founder-of-the-socializers-identified-as-one-of-16-people-who-inspire-the-world-on-arianna-huffingtons-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What inspires you? The answer to that question can be found in the timeless words of a visionary leader or literary giant, the stunning beauty of historical landmarks and modern marvels, or the fighting spirit and the responsibility to support causes that speak to the very best of what humanity has to offer. The answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek FB page grows to 10K members in 3 days in wake of girl&#8217;s dismissal!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/02/14/greek-fb-page-grows-to-10k-members-in-3-days-in-wake-of-girls-dismissal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/02/14/greek-fb-page-grows-to-10k-members-in-3-days-in-wake-of-girls-dismissal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister reacts to Facebook expulsion Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou attempted yesterday to defuse a row that has broken out over the expulsion of a junior high school pupil who criticized her principal on the Internet, although the government official accepted that Greece needs to update its laws to deal with such incidents. Diamantopoulou issued a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010: The Year Brands Embrace Social Commerce</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/02/09/2010-the-year-brands-embrace-social-commerce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dave Jackson Last week, social shopping site ThisNext announced plans to buy smaller rival StyleHive; that announcement came after news from Time Inc. last month that it would buy social recommendation engine StyleFeeder as a way to incorporate ecommerce into its online fashion magazine properties. This recent rush of consolidation points to a trend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/01/30/social-media-marketing-how-pepsi-got-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media marketing campaigns are proving to be goldmines rich with customer engagement and insight that companies wouldn’t likely have otherwise. Companies like PepsiCo are going to extensive lengths to foster this type of collaboration with fans, and the payoff has been big. The company’s Mountain Dew division is several stages into its DEWmocracy campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Use Up 82% from one year ago</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/01/24/social-media-use-up-82-from-one-year-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Facebook privacy changes and serious cases of Twitter Fail Whale, social media use has increased astronomically since this time last year: During December 2009, global users spent an average of five hours on social networking sites, up from three hours in December 2008. That’s an 82% increase. Nielsen just released a report on its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporters put Twitter, Facebook to &#8216;Big Brother&#8217; test</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/01/22/reporters-put-twitter-facebook-to-big-brother-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIVE journalists will lock themselves away in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites. http://bit.ly/social_is_best_news_source Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Pepsi trades in Superbowl ad spot for social media play!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2010/01/12/pepsi-trades-in-superbowl-ad-spot-for-social-media-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not have ads in the Super Bowl telecast. NoCindy Crawford, Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake. Instead it is redirecting the millions it has spent annually to the Internet. Pepsi has chosen to give away over $20 million in a social media play it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Status Trends of 2009 on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2009/12/23/top-status-trends-of-2009-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook Memology: Top Status Trends of 2009 Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Is Blippy, the online social media location for viewing and sharing purchases, taking transparency too far?</title>
		<link>http://www.thesocializers.com/blog/2009/12/14/does-blippy-the-online-social-media-location-for-viewing-and-sharing-purchases-taking-transparency-too-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Blippy, the online social media location for viewing and sharing purchases, taking transparency too far? http://bit.ly/blippy Tweet This Post]]></description>
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