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		<title>Nurturing your LinkedIn connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>DRPR new blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out DRPR&#8217;s brand new blog for industry insights, helpful hints and for information on our new PR Mentor program.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=784&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep on message</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Rutzou Public Relations</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     The term &#8216;keep on message&#8217; is one that we are familiar with during an election campaign as political leaders try and repeat the slogans that have come out of research as the sentiments that will best appeal to those important voters in the key marginals.   But why do they do it?   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=780&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PR Mentor &#8211; Training &amp; Mentoring for Small Business PR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every organisation has a good story to tell and must tell that story to its customers to grow the business and increase market share in a competitive environment. Public relations is a marketing investment that will help raise the public profile of your organisation over time to create a position of market leadership. At Dennis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=775&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is honesty the best policy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Sitting around the dinner table last night my family and I were having a typical ‘solve the problems of the worlds’ conversation over a few glasses of red and the topic of respecting politicians came up. Everyone around the table had some very valid points, but the one consensus that surfaced, regardless of political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=766&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microworkers – a case of ethics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Rutzou Public Relations</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petra Aitken]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Cherry Picked recently blogged about a new site, ‘Microworkers’ – “Think of it as Santa’s Little Helpers for odd jobs. Except you’re not Santa, and they’re not doing it for love. Don’t have time to edit a cover letter for that must-have job? Simply become an “employer” and hire someone (a microworker) to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=761&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media censorship &#8211; Can companies control what employees are saying about them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Rutzou Public Relations</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kim Larochelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was meeting with a client recently who raised the issue of staff’s interaction on social media and whether the organisation should have a social media policy that would ‘forbid’ its staff to comment about the company on their personal social media profiles (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Although this may sound like an appealing way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=757&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect pitch &#8211; it’s personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Rutzou Public Relations</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  After attending a PRIA event last night called the ‘Perfect Pitch’, I retired for the evening feeling enlightened, yet slightly deflated.  It was a well organised night and a great atmosphere for meeting some new people (please note my deliberate avoidance of the term ‘networking’- the thought of straining for ‘mutually beneficial’ relationships rather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=749&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What did you say? – Solution! Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Rutzou Public Relations</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nicola Rutzou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buzz words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overused words in business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to nominate the word ‘solution’ as the most overused word in Australian business. It’s so overused that it is losing it’s real meaning.  According to the very large Macquarie Dictionary on my desk, the word solution means “the act of solving a problem” and when used in that context (and a few others) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=745&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food blogs &#8211; leaving a bad taste in your mouth?</title>
		<link>http://dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/food-blogs-leaving-a-bad-taste-in-your-mouth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Rutzou Public Relations</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Petra Aitken]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I recently read an interesting article on Mashable/Social Media titled Why food bloggers are here to stay by Jenny An, a food, popular culture and travel writer. The article discusses how food blogs and bloggers have become the new staple of online food writing.  This, I would have to agree with. I am an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dennisrutzoupr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5670350&amp;post=736&amp;subd=dennisrutzoupr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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