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	<title>Cathy Fletcher &#187; Business</title>
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		<title>A Marriage of Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal partnerships are scary. It's like, if Groucho Marx shows up in your mind and says: "I've had a perfectly wonderful time. But this wasn't it."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Moroccan-Bride.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-447" title="Moroccan Bride" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Moroccan-Bride-150x150.jpg" alt="Moroccan marriage" width="150" height="150" /></a>Legal partnerships are scary. The idea of it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like Groucho Marx shows up in your mind and says:</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a perfectly wonderful time. But this wasn&#8217;t it.&#8221;</p>
<p>And mindset keeps us solo. Or not.</p>
<p>Even though we might end up alone on a hill, in a shack with a cat. Or even worse, next to a bad neighbour.</p>
<p>Which is why there are times of trial. Trouble is, trials are half hearted.</p>
<p>Well now, it will always be a mystery then.</p>
<p>On the other hand you can find out as much as you can about yourself, dive into a new realm armed with the basics about the new culture. Ask as many questions about potential partners as they ask about you. Names. Family. Friends. And ask about those you met next time you meet.</p>
<p>Helps if you love people and desire a change but it <em>is</em> a legal matter.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s what grownups do.</p>
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		<title>Get Buzz on Your Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the way Google Buzz playing out on my gmail, pretty good so far...following Michel Fortin and Weird China...interesting. The social interaction will be ranked by Google]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Get-Buzz-on-you-phone.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-242" title="Get Buzz on you phone" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Get-Buzz-on-you-phone-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a title="Get Buzz on your phone" href="http://www.google.com/buzz" target="_blank">Get Buzz on your phone</a></p>
<p>Notes from the live chat with Bill McIntosh (Feb 9).</p>
<p>The web will be local, social, mobile. If you have followers Google will dish up <em>your</em> stuff first.</p>
<p>Google paying close attention to social media communications.</p>
<p>Google Social Search &#8220;&#8230; is a feature designed to help you discover relevant publicly-accessible content from your social circle, a set of online friends and contacts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Google and NSA in a partnership because of security breaches from China.</p>
<p>Google Local Business Center <a href="http://www.google.com/local/add/analyticsSplashPage?gl=US&amp;hl=en-US" target="_blank">click here </a></p>
<p>Google Analytics gives you code to track stats on your webpage.</p>
<p>Google Profile to be your dashboard.</p>
<p>Google Buzz is in anwer to 4 sq. for iPhone.</p>
<p>Looking at the way Google Buzz playing out on my gmail, pretty good so far&#8230;following Michel Fortin and Weird China&#8230;interesting.</p>
<p>The social interaction will be ranked by Google</p>
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		<title>7 Reasons Why Your Name is Your Brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are on a break from the corporate world or looking to escape9to5 think about branding to your name. Probably Google, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are not going away any time soon. You start there.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Your-Name-Brand1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-259" title="Happy Girl on computer" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Your-Name-Brand1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<ol>
<li>However secure you feel in your job, feelings are not facts</li>
<li>Your name remains and may be built on, job or no</li>
<li>People do business with people, not corporations</li>
<li>Foundation in marketing is in relationships</li>
<li>There is honour that may be brought or restored in your name</li>
<li>The corporation will not pay you what your name is worth</li>
<li>Untold riches, both spiritual and material, lie in the potential of your name</li>
</ol>
<p>If you are on a break from the corporate world or looking to <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Professionals-Transitioning-to-Self-Business&amp;id=3342992" target="_blank">escape9to5</a> think about branding to your name. Probably Google, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are not going away any time soon. You start there.</p>
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		<title>Cognac Croizet S.A. France</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This company is doing a great Twitter campaign (funny, about Dorlan at the Beach)...I love good advertising. And this video is good...educational.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This company is doing a great Twitter campaign (funny, about Dorlan at the Beach)&#8230;I love yummy advertising. And this video is good&#8230;educational. Goes well with salmon eggs, caviar, goat&#8217;s cheese, chocolate, walnuts.</p>
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		<title>escape9to5</title>
		<link>http://www.cathyfletcher.com/escape9to5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joint venture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On my journey to escape9to5 I've accepted office work at Car Heaven, as of yesterday, till the end of the year. I'm the Mary Poppins of filing :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On my journey to <a title="escape9to5" href="http://openzine.com/aspx/Zine.aspx?IssueID=3990" target="_blank">escape9to5</a> I&#8217;ve accepted office work at Car Heaven, as of yesterday, till the end of the year. I&#8217;m the Mary Poppins of filing <img src='http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Encouragement for your journey away from working a regular day job to working even harder at your own business, but loving it. There are perils along the way just like the book Behold The Dawn. This is the trailer for the book, I found through @KMWeiland on Twitter. She&#8217;s a historical writer.</p>
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		<title>TinyChat</title>
		<link>http://www.cathyfletcher.com/tinychat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TinyChat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webcam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay now...this is neat, for business to arrange a disposable chat room to meet for a time. But for gosh sakes after you check it out, use it for a good purpose to meet your project members.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay now&#8230;this is neat, for business to arrange a disposable chat room to meet for a time. But for gosh sakes after you check it out, use it for a <em>good</em> <strong>purpose</strong> to meet your project members. What you can do is send them the url through Skype if you have that running&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li>create your room</li>
<li>sign in with Twitter etc.</li>
<li>login</li>
<li>enter your topic</li>
<li>set your privacy</li>
<li>OK</li>
<li>invite friends</li>
<li>start broadcasting, allow</li>
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<p>So you&#8217;ll see yourself in the little camera window&#8230;which is exactly WHY you want to set the privacy.</p>
<p>Tell ya why&#8230;on the main page you see lots of tiny little thumbnails of people who are in their own chat rooms without the privacy setting.</p>
<p>Now, if you click on one you&#8217;ll see something strange&#8230;so <em>don&#8217;t</em> do it. What I saw was some guy looking intently (not at me).</p>
<p>Okay, so if someone randomly clicked on your little image they would see you! See what I mean?</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s a great tool for you and your team to meet. There&#8217;s some tabs, drop-down menus and all that. You can even record it (better than a secretary).</p>
<p>*note: you can type or talk</p>
<p><a title="TinyChat" href="http://tinychat.com/" target="_blank">http://tinychat.com/</a></p>
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