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		<title>Rediscovering College-Smart</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I looked through some old files from my studies at Purchase College and was disheartened by what I read. As a New Media and Liberal Arts student who knew his way around a computer, I saved nearly every report, file and document from eight semesters of classes spread over four years. The documents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=646&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ReadyDone: A Eulogy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I started ReadyDone, a small web-dev and design business with my friend Josh Lind. Our goal was to work on some fun projects, source others to friends and other independent contractors, and to make getting and doing creative work easier for everyone. Unfortunately, after two years and a few dozen projects, Josh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=628&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Steps Towards An Awesome Facebook Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook pages are increasingly (wow, that&#8217;s going to sounded like a dated statement in a few months) becoming a must-have for organizations, companies and non-profits. If you area launching a page, or have one and want to know how to clean it up, here are some simple steps to take. Got other suggestions? Add a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=620&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Companies Can Learn From Chipotle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long week of meetings, phone calls and late nights, I was relieved on Friday to have the week complete and jumped into my car for the ride home. Just a few miles from my house, my stomach began to grumble. I knew my cupboards were bare, so I stopped at a Chipotle Grill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=590&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Case Example: Social Media Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The development manager of a non-profit I volunteer with, PowerfulSchools.org, recently shared this story with me (see below). Because PS posts recent grant awards on their Facebook page, and because this is setup to automatically tweet their posts at www.twitter.com/powerfulschools, when our local news outlet KOMO was researching on Twitter for an article, they stumbled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=572&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It All Starts At Why</title>
		<link>http://joelballezza.com/2010/09/19/it-all-starts-at-the-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s not what you do, its why you do it.&#8221; &#8211; Simon Sinek At first view, the quote might might sound like something I scraped from a motivational poster. You know the kind. The san-serifed words would sit at the bottom of an image of child reaching for a book or a crew shell gliding through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=551&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are You Passionate About?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved my time at the TEDx Seattle conference so much, I recently applied for entry into TEDx Rainier, an independently organized TED conference coming up on 10/10/10 (don&#8217;t know TED? Click here). As part of the application process, you have to answer two questions. What are you passionate about in life, your work and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=530&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Make You Pretty&#8230; By Any Means Necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I got an idea for a great ad. After cutting my hair (and missing a few spots with the buzzer), and grabbing a shower and a shave, I realized that I had to replace the bolt on my toilet. I pulled out tools from my cabinet, and after a few hours of fiddling and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=515&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Goals: Inspired by the ICanHasCheezburger Guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April, I had the pleasure of attending TEDx Seattle, a great conference that included artists, researchers and scientists sharing stories about how technology and culture intersect (If you don&#8217;t already, you should subscribe to the TED podcast). One of my favorite speakers from the event was Ben Huh, owner of the IcanHasCheezburger Network, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=428&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon my coworker and I struck up a conversation on how old we were getting in relation to the Internet. Jessica shared a story about how she had to convince her first two employers to include their web addresses on their marketing materials so that donors could find them (you know, way back in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelballezza.com&#038;blog=13679014&#038;post=478&#038;subd=joelballezza&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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