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		<title>Facebook, Social Media &#38; Business Strategy: Do you panic?</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/facebook-social-media-business-strategy-do-you-panic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you are a corporation and your workers are spending time on Facebook. What do you do? Do you shut down access? Do nothing? Develop acceptable use policies? Or order in pizza, get the gang together and figure out how social media fits in with your overall business strategy?
If you said the latter, move to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook, Social Media &#38; Making Money</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/facebook-social-media-making-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 7 2008 - I read Mark Sutcliffe&#8217;s editorial in the Ottawa Citizen today - &#8220;Still hard to see how Facebook will make a buck with social networks.&#8221;
He establishes his position right from the start:
At the risk of sounding like a heretic, I don&#8217;t get Facebook.
It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t get the concept. I suppose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook, New Graduates &#38; Usage Policies</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/facebook-new-graduates-usage-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about the 18-34 generation and Facebook? Well, they have a better networking and relationship maintenance tool than their Boomer predecessors. This presents a golden opportunity for all organizations.
For those of us who graduated and left school for good before 1995 (yours truly included) - the year that the Internet became mainstream – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If People Operated Like Facebook</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/if-people-operated-like-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General Observations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun look at how we may interact if we talked &#8220;Facebook&#8221; in real life.
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/04/30
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		<title>Clarifications: Reuters Coverage on Facebook News Release</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/clarifications-reuters-coverage-on-facebook-news-release/</link>
		<comments>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/clarifications-reuters-coverage-on-facebook-news-release/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was interviewed by Reuters on our recent news release. As with most interviews related to polling results, there are some things that get a little lost in translation and edited.
Please note the following clarifications on their article &#8220;Facebook users willing to let employers see profiles&#8221; by Claire Sibonney.
Quote:
Almost half of 1,200 people questioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook helps employers screen &#38; develop talent…</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/facebook-helps-employers-screen-develop-talent%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/facebook-helps-employers-screen-develop-talent%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking is the new frontier of recruiting and connecting with staff.
Yes, indeed. While not an obvious first place to advertise jobs, the medium does take advantage of one key element - networks.
There have been a wave of employers shutting down workers access to this revolutionary Web 2.0 application because it is considered a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have we got our priorities right?</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/have-we-got-our-priorities-right/</link>
		<comments>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/have-we-got-our-priorities-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit it. I am a foodie. Some may say food snob. Sure. Whatever.
I regularly pick up food magazines for new ideas, among which bon appetit is one.
Flipping through the May 2008 issue I encountered this ad for Fancy Feast.
Now, I&#8217;ll also admit I like cats and that they make good pets.
BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

&#8220;Restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to stay up-to-date</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/trying-to-stay-up-to-date/</link>
		<comments>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/trying-to-stay-up-to-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the business of providing advice, you simply have to stay in the know. Whatever is going on in the news, business, science, the arts and popular culture, clients expect us to be up-to-date. We need to stay abreast of the latest trends and innovations in society and the market.
So we have the radio on… [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AB Election 2008: A Remarkable and Spectacular Result for Governing PCs</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/ab-election-2008-a-remarkable-and-spectacular-result-for-governing-pcs/</link>
		<comments>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/ab-election-2008-a-remarkable-and-spectacular-result-for-governing-pcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst much debate about a need for change, the Alberta PC party rode into a bright new dawn with a resounding victory in the 2008 provincial election on March 3, 2008.
With a mandate of 70+ seats, they have effectively eliminated any opposition and have free reign over the operation of the province for at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Black Boxes - The Strength and Validity of Internet Surveys</title>
		<link>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/beware-of-black-boxes-the-strength-and-validity-of-internet-surveys/</link>
		<comments>http://zincresearch.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/beware-of-black-boxes-the-strength-and-validity-of-internet-surveys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zincresearch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ZINC research was recently a sponsor for Net Gain 2.0 in Ottawa.
This was an excellent conference on the current state and future on online research and using wireless technologies. I recommend that fellow researchers attend future iterations of this conference.
One area that many speakers dedicated much attention was the reliability of online polls. And specifically, [...]]]></description>
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