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		<title>3 Defining Quotes From GreenBeat 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/12/09/3-defining-quotes-from-greenbeat-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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We have finished up our participation in GreenBeat 2009 conference on the Smart Grid.  Vantage Communications was a strategic partner for the event, which provided me with a unique view of a major green conference that I would like to share.
1. &#8220;VentureBeat is doing its first green conference. Would Vantage be interested in participating?&#8221; Andie Rhyins, Publisher of VentureBeat
Actually, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Social Media Fractured Fairy Tale</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/07/09/a-social-media-fractured-fairy-tale</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s time for a fractured fairy tale: Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley, courtesy of the New York Times.  Once upon a time in a Sand Hill Road conference room, an entrepreneur, a VC and a PR consultant met to discuss the launch of Wordnik, a website about language and word usage. The PR person suggests a press tour of leading tech blogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following the Wisdom of the Crowd</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/03/25/following-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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Nine months and two Facebook redesigns ago, Jennifer Kutz wrote a post about the Wisdom of the Crowd Goes to a Trade Show. She discussed the trend of trade shows opening the show agenda selection process to their audience.  She mentioned one proposed panel in particular: Privacy and Personalization – Oxymoron or the Perfect Match?, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile World Congress 2009 &#8211; Quality over Quantity and Application Stores</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/25/mobile-world-congress-2009-quality-over-quantity-and-application-stores</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/25/mobile-world-congress-2009-quality-over-quantity-and-application-stores#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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		<title>We&#8217;re all in the Communications Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/13/were-all-in-the-commincations-business</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/13/were-all-in-the-commincations-business#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lstarr</dc:creator>
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At last week’s IT Expo in Miami, John Frederiksen, General Manager of Microsoft&#8217;s Response Point gave the keynote address.  Response Point is Microsoft’s small business phone system software also known as an IP PBX for small to medium-sized businesses.
Using one of the most over-used phrases since “is that your final answer?” Frederiksen noted that “in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a Positive Outlook Lift the Economy? Florida Believes</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/05/can-a-positive-outlook-lift-the-economy-florida-believes</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/05/can-a-positive-outlook-lift-the-economy-florida-believes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelAHarris</dc:creator>
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Brianna Schweitzer and I just left the Florida Venture Forum’s Capital Conference in Naples.  It was a fabulous event, and did an excellent job of connecting investors from all over the world with emerging companies throughout the state of Florida.  As you may guess, the buzz was all about the economy.
The keynote was Martin Schaffel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Time for a PR/Marketing Makeover?</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/03/is-it-time-for-a-prmarketing-makeover</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2009/02/03/is-it-time-for-a-prmarketing-makeover#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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Prime time television is full of makeover shows which feature people who are totally clueless about how they appear to others. Yet, businesses also do not take a sober look in the mirror and see how their customers perceive them.
Rich Tehrani of TMCNet.com recently wrote a brilliant blog post that is built around a very simple question: &#8220;In This Recession, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rx From an Editor &#8211; A Press Release Per Day?!</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2008/10/27/rx-from-an-editor-a-press-release-per-day</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2008/10/27/rx-from-an-editor-a-press-release-per-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pr-vantage.com/?p=521</guid>
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Rich Tehrani, blogger, editor and publisher of TMCnet.com wrote a great post on his Communications and Technology Blog about what companies need to do to succeed in the current economic environment.  Rich has been dealing with a challenging economic environment for years. He has managed to build a thriving business by using the Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sell, Sell, Sell!</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2008/10/22/sell-sell-sell</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radler</dc:creator>
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Apologies to anyone looking for stock market advice based on the title. But to paraphrase Bones McCoy, we&#8217;re a tech PR blog, not the Wall Street Journal. However, we are talking about money today.
In the new financial climate, sales, business development, public relations and venture capital are now intertwined. Yesterday, a VC told me that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deciders</title>
		<link>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2008/10/20/who-is-your-target-market</link>
		<comments>http://blog.pr-vantage.com/2008/10/20/who-is-your-target-market#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mgoltara</dc:creator>
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A recent article by Phil Carson of RCR Wireless News examines a new demographic for handset manufactures. While we have seen this coming over the past several years, he states that &#8220;Between 5% and 10% of five-year-olds have a mobile phone. By age 10, fully one-third of American kids have a phone. By the first [...]]]></description>
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