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		<title>Top Predictions for&#160;2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a new year, filled with new opportunities.  Here&#8217;s what I see coming: Outsourcing continues to grow&#8230; but this year it happens in small-town USA. Business processing outsourcing (BPO), especially call centers, bring back jobs to America from India and other places where costs are rising and quality has plateaued. The social Web remains ubiquitous.  [...]

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		<title>Choosing a&#160;Road&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life seems to always be about decisions.  Many years ago I realized my life was like the poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost. Although I chose to live my life on the road less traveled, I&#8217;ve periodically found myself wandering onto the other trail&#8230; especially in this year&#8217;s horrible economy.   I can’t [...]

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		<title>Connecting The&#160;Dots&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.  You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

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		<title>Visitors, Pageviews, or&#160;Hits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.K.</dc:creator>
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