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		<title>How to Build a Cheap Website for $100 (or less!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow this FREE, step-by-step tutorial to learn how you can design, build, and host your own website for less than a hundred bucks!]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Hood: Hearthstone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1993, Hearthstone Management, Inc. is one of the nation&#8217;s premier operators of assisted living communities for older adults. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Hearthstone manages 37 communities throughout the United States, all designed to meet the needs of the growing population of seniors who require assisted living services.
Despite having built a strong reputation for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design as Process vs. Product</title>
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At TEDGlobal in London, Tim Brown talks about how design got small — and why it’s becoming big again. Design is moving beyond the sculptural object displayed in lifestyle magazines or on pedestals in museums of modern art. It’s returning to its roots, when design thinkers like Isambard Brunel created innovative breakthroughs.
It&#8217;s time to begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In <em>Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion,</em> Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses.]]></description>
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		<title>Finally. Custom WordPress Forms Made Easy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've been searching for a WordPress plugin that will enable you to create custom contact forms for your posts and pages, Gravity Forms is the only plugin you need to check out! Create gorgeous forms in an easy-to-use interface, collect, and manage form contents directly within the WordPress interface!]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring the Success of Twitter for Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you measure the success of your Twitter strategy? The all-new Twitter 101 for Business microsite contains a suite of tools to help with just that!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/measuring-twitter-success/</link>
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		<title>Is $0.00 the Future of Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive." So says Wired's Editor in Chief, Chris Anderson, in his latest book, <em>Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business</em>.  As the cost of doing business online plummets, how do our business models adapt — and survive?]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s New in WordPress 2.8?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hard-working WordPress team has just released the latest upgrade to their increasingly-popular content management system.  WordPress 2.8 &#8220;Baker&#8221; has been named after noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.  The release is being called a &#8220;fit and finish&#8221; release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. They&#8217;ve also fixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 Great Ideas on Using Twitter for Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is fast becoming one of the most important tools for business that we never knew we always wanted. Chris Brogan has compiled a great list of 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business:
http://tinyurl.com/5u75pe
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		<link>http://www.leftlanedesigns.com/blog/50-great-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/</link>
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		<title>How to Monetize Your Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet heard of Gary Vaynerchuk, bookmark his blog or follow his Twitter feed today! Gary has turned the wine industry upside-down with his innovative (and sometimes controversial) approach. Say what you will&#8230;he is entertaining (one might even say, &#8216;addictive&#8217;), his WineLibrary.com site is absolutely raking in the traffic, and [...]]]></description>
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