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		<title>The First university to issue an Apple iPod Touch to every student comes from Abeline, Texas???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abeline Christian University with a tiny 4700 student enrollment is living large with Apple!
&#8220;freshmen will use an iPhone or iPod touch to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors&#8217; offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed
http://www.acu.edu/news/2008/080225_iphone.html
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		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/06/16/the-first-university-to-issue-an-apple-ipod-touch-to-every-student-comes-from-abeline-texas/</link>
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		<title>54% of blog users went to a vendor site for more info about product or service after reading a blog post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this blogging stat info interesting:

78% of TechWeb Network visitors read technology blogs — an average of 7 different blogs weekly — to get information for their jobs
Usage of blogs among IT and Corporate decision makers has increased 27% in the last year
Executive IT Management (63%), IT Management and Staff (65%), and Corporate Management (64%) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/06/16/27/</link>
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		<title>Ok this scares me.  Tax people for driving anywhere in your city.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like it is working but not sure I am for something like this coming to America.  I am sure it has already been proposed somewhere.  Houston might be a fine candidate. :-) 
Story: Congestion pricing cuts Stockholm traffic by almost a fifth &#124; IBM 
Congestion pricing in Stockholm, has reduced traffic in the Swedish capital by 18 percent, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/06/16/ok-this-scares-me-tax-people-for-driving-anywhere-in-your-city/</link>
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		<title>Have fun and drive eyballs too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BazaarVoice is a local company with executives who take their fun and culture seriously.   Check out this video&#8230;you won&#8217;t be disappointed.
  Not a bad way to recruit creative employees either. Click here for viral marketing at its best. 
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		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/06/10/have-fun-and-drive-eyballs-too/</link>
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		<title>Great insight from the Dell&#8217;s Bob Pearson - &#8220;Today&#8217;s homepage is a Google results page&#8221; and more&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Really good stuff to ponder&#8230;here are a few highlights from Dell&#8217;s Bob Pearson&#8217;s keynote at :China over took the US with the number of people online. Over 500k people go online for the first time everyday. Do we know their purchase habits? Do we know their searching habits? No!Today&#8217;s home page is a Google search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/05/29/great-insight-from-the-competition-dells-bob-pearson-todays-homepage-is-a-google-results-page-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Should we pay our acquisition employees to quit? or telesales or college new-hires or ??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about a buyout offer for all acquisition personnel? say&#8230;6 months after close of the acquisition?
 Just read the article below on an innovative telesales hiring practice of offering early exit bonuses to trainees. Essentially to make sure that Zappos had the right people and chemistry in their customer facing tele-reps. Like Zappas we all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/05/21/should-we-pay-our-acquisition-employees-to-quit-or-telesales-or-college-new-hires-or/</link>
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		<title>Best hiring practice or should I say Best &#8220;weeding-out&#8221; practice?  Bribe bad ones to leave.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read about a great best-practice from Zappos.   During the training process they offer a chance for trainees to &#8220;opt-out&#8221; or &#8220;cash-out&#8221; and move on.  This helps Zappos maintain a energetic culture&#8230;&#8221;some people are just not can&#8217;t be the energizer bunny on the phone all day&#8221;.
More from the article:&#8221;Why? Because if you’re willing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/05/21/best-hiring-practice-or-should-i-say-best-weeding-out-practice/</link>
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		<title>Now I have seen it all&#8230;a Social Networking gift card!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I have seen it all&#8230;a Social Networking gift card!But actually it is a great idea for the gift card company&#8230;imagine the possiblities.It would be great to give b-day, get-well, and other gifts from inside your Facebookworld?  Here is an excerpt or click here for the full story.Ideaedge, Inc., a developer of prepaid gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/04/16/now-i-have-seen-it-alla-social-networking-gift-card/</link>
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		<title>Funny t-shirt from RSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this today on CRN website.  Creepiest t-shirt from Forescout.com
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		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/04/11/funny-t-shirt-from-rsa/</link>
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		<title>Twittering and tweeting&#8230;pondering business uses for twitter.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a friend today miss a leading meeting that he NEVER misses.  No explanation by the substitute leader at first so I took it upon myself to stalk him via Tweeter.com.  Via his real-time blog ala tweeting, I found out that his mother was in the hospital undergoing bipass surgery.  I text messaged him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bighatmarketing.com/2008/04/11/twittering-and-tweetingpondering-business-uses-for-twittercom/</link>
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