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	<title>DianeV web design blog</title>
	<link>http://dianev.com/blog</link>
	<description>The DianeV web design and marketing blog</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Microsoft Word making weird characters in your blog or email?</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/12/08/microsoft-word-making-weird-characters-in-your-blog-or-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Email Issues</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you've crafted a new article, carefully copied it into your blog, pressed the Publish button, and then visited the home page to check your work — only to find  weird characters strewn throughout your blog article.
 You may find characters such as those in the image to the left, or question marks or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boomers not planning to retire?</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/10/28/boomers-not-planning-to-retire/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/10/28/boomers-not-planning-to-retire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Marketing</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marketing Vox published an article entitled Boomers Don't Retire; They Become their Own Bosses. Based on an analysis of a study conducted by Ipsos Canada, it indicates that:
For many Boomers, retirement is an opportunity to start a business and become their own boss.
15 percent intend to work for themselves until they die, according to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing and Ethics</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/10/17/marketing-and-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/10/17/marketing-and-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Marketing</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some real questions arise when discussion turns to marketing and ethics.
One hears the phrase "survival of the fittest" in marketing and advertising, and has to ponder what is meant by it.
 The phrase conjures up the concept of walking through the marketing jungle with product or service in hand — and being leapt upon and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get around the Internet fast</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/07/10/how-to-get-around-the-internet-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/07/10/how-to-get-around-the-internet-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Issues</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick tip about how to get around the Internet — something that is not taught when you get an Internet connection.
 What is a browser? "Browser" is the generic term for the program that you use to surf the Internet. If you can visit websites with it, it's a browser.
Your browser has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submitting to Search Engines</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/02/28/submitting-to-search-engines/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/02/28/submitting-to-search-engines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Marketing</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Or, how to waste money for little return
So, your website is finished and is now open to the public on the Internet.
Next, you need to get it into the search engines — Google, Yahoo, MSN and the like. Well, that's mostly true. Sort of. What needs to happen is that search engines need to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow computer?</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/02/05/slow-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2007/02/05/slow-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Computers</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, people tell me that they're suffering from a slow computer problem. Mind you, they're not saying that the computer was slow when they bought it, but that it's slow now. And Dan, the fellow who maintains our computer network, says that people often just solve the problem by getting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You do promote, don't you?</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2006/03/22/you-do-promote-dont-you/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2006/03/22/you-do-promote-dont-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Marketing</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For many companies, business promotion is sometimes relegated to a secondary status. That is, in the rush to establish a business, many companies omit effective promotion as their time and resources are swallowed up in administrative tasks, production, and the process of bringing the product or service to market. Promotion of the business itself becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Stats - What are Hits?</title>
		<link>http://dianev.com/blog/2006/03/20/website-stats-what-are-hits/</link>
		<comments>http://dianev.com/blog/2006/03/20/website-stats-what-are-hits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Vigil</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet Issues</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most web hosting accounts come with website usage statistics so that you can tell what's going on with your website and how people are using it — but these can be confusing, not the least due to a distinct lack of explanation of the terms used! 
What is a "hit"?
Sounds like a "hit" equals a [...]]]></description>
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