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		<title>And Then There Were Lists &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2010/07/17/and-then-there-were-lists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Neilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Twitter Lists and how you can use them for business or pleasure!]]></description>
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		<title>PR &#8211; There&#8217;s a story in every business</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2010/05/24/pr-theres-a-story-in-every-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catriona Pollard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every business has a great story to tell. But who&#8217;s telling it and what they&#8217;re saying can make all the difference. Public Relations is all about effective communication. It helps establish and maintain mutual lines of communication, understanding, acceptance and co-operation between an organisation and its target audience. Public relations programs enhance the internal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TweetMeme is Good Good for Business!</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2010/03/15/tweetmeme-is-good-good-for-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Neilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would have seen it popping up everywhere on the Ever wondered what that green retweet button with the grey counter above it was? ]]></description>
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		<title>Save Time by Using RSS Feeds</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2010/02/22/save-time-by-using-rss-feeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catriona Pollard</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you start your morning by visiting numerous websites to find the latest information and updates? Do you find it annoying trying to remember lots of different log in names, user names and passwords? RSS feeds can help you eliminate this time consuming process. So what is RSS anyway? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lipstick Business Planning</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/06/28/159/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/06/28/159/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the 60 percent of business owners who don’t currently have a business plan, the line &#8216;if you leave something in your tray long enough it will disappear&#8217; could be the truth. When it comes to developing a business plan these days the old SWOT analysis as we once knew it seems irrelevant. Sure all business owners need to plot how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer service just a mystery</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/06/08/customer-service-just-a-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some days you just can&#8217;t help but think customer service is all but dead. This morning I encountered what could only be described as a comatose operator at a Woolies express checkout. I was doing my bit, on hearing the words &#8220;Next in line&#8221; I fronted up to the counter. On arrival I smiled and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter global domination for beginners</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/03/29/twitter-global-domination-for-beginners/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/03/29/twitter-global-domination-for-beginners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems these days that if you are not micro blogging on Twitter you&#8217;re just not with it. But with only so many hours in the day, getting your head around the functionality of the likes of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn etc can be an awesome task. The other day I came across  Alecia Huck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Busting Networking</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/03/03/recession-busting-networking/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/03/03/recession-busting-networking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the search now on by most businesses for ways and means to reduce costs, it’s no surprise that the tried and true art of networking is once again back in fashion. One only needs to compare the results networking achieves up against other forms of acquiring business, such as advertising or cold calling, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Entrepreneurs Own Space</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/01/10/women-entrepreneurs-own-space/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2009/01/10/women-entrepreneurs-own-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s satisfying to know that although governments and corporates across Australia are clueless in accepting women in business as a serious market segment globally, there are growing indications of respect for female entrepreneurs along with a commercial pursuit for the money women control. Following the opening last year of In Good Company’s unique office space for businesswomen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Report &#8211; Social Media for Small Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2008/11/30/free-report-social-media-for-small-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/2008/11/30/free-report-social-media-for-small-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.womensnetwork.com.au/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not if you own a business and intend to be successful you’ll have to get your head around social media and exactly how you are going to implement it into your business. It&#8217;s not rocket science predicting the future and how consumers will be communicating and gathering information on which they will make all [...]]]></description>
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