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		<title>Are you @bobbybraggart or @tweetuspontificus? The Ultimate CEO&#8217;s Guide to Twitter (Adapted from Feb &#8217;12 SmartCEO DC mag)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ultimate CEO&#8217;s Guide to Twitter (Slightly edited version of the one originally published in Feb &#8217;12 SmartCEO DC mag) This Bobservation is brought to you by our latest sponsor, JarGone, the only dermal patch designed to eliminate corporate jargon from your conversations. Just apply JarGone to your upper arm on Monday and you&#8217;re guaranteed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=489&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich to Launch NEWTon Daily Deal Site to Gain Campaign Traction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[POTOMAC, MD &#8211; February 5, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is planning to launch a new &#8220;deal of the day&#8221; site in order to boost his struggling campaign, say sources close to the initiative.  The new site, called NEWTon (pronounced NEWT-awn) will attempt to make its mark as a conservative-themed version of services like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=479&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newt or Schrute?</title>
		<link>http://bob-servations.com/2012/01/18/newt-or-schrute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both of these photos portray out-of-touch, predictably self-unaware antagonists with crazy ideas. One is Newt Gingrich from his days as a professor at the University of West Georgia. The other is Dwight Schrute of NBC’s “The Office.” Can you tell which is which?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=466&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Chair Genachowski&#8217;s Wife&#8217;s &#8220;Honey-Do&#8221; Policy Agenda Leaked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob London Editor, Bobservations From the Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2011: On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved rules that will require cable operators and TV stations to quiet louder-than-normal TV commercials. &#8220;This is an issue people care about.  My wife has wondered for years when we were going to do something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=452&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the Marketing Crime Log (Originally published in SmartCEO DC Magazine, Oct. &#8217;11)</title>
		<link>http://bob-servations.com/2011/11/28/introducing-the-marketing-crime-log-originally-published-in-smartceo-dc-magazine-oct-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all snuck a peek at the local crime blotter—you know, the list of misdemeanors (and sometimes worse) tucked away in your newspaper. Admit it, you read them. Now you can peer into the fractious, nasty and fascinating underside of Marketing by reading The Marketing Crime Log, a collection of malfeasance, negligence and other assorted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=433&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a business partner is sort of like dating. (Originally published in SmartCEO DC magazine, July &#8217;11 issue)</title>
		<link>http://bob-servations.com/2011/11/17/looking-for-a-business-partner-is-sort-of-like-dating-originally-published-in-smartceo-dc-magazine-july-11-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I founded my own business, carefully and methodically built it over the years, focused on every detail and got every aspect of the operation just the way I wanted it.  Then a management consultant tells me I have to “let go a bit” and bring in a partner&#8211;someone with a “complementary skill set” who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=435&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Groupon: 50% off of 2012 Penn State Tuition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Groupon: 50% off of 2012 Penn State Tuition<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=440&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Makeover: Corporate Culture Edition (Originally appeared in Nov. issue of SmartCEO DC Magazine)</title>
		<link>http://bob-servations.com/2011/11/01/extreme-makeover-corporate-culture-edition-originally-appeared-in-nov-issue-of-smartceo-dc-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: All Employees: From: The Compliance Team Subject: New Ethics and Compliance Policy It is critical that we strive to build a corporate culture that is characterized by good, goodness, wellness, honesty, respect, cleanliness, honor and nobility, as well as straight shooting, true blue-ness, square dealing and other nouns. Therefore, effective immediately, we are implementing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=430&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fat book with a yellow cover just landed in my driveway.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, everyone. Does anyone know why a fat (1000 pages) book with a yellow cover and yellow pages inside lands on my driveway every year?  The book contains a messy agglomeration of lists and ads that don&#8217;t really tell me anything.  And it looks awfully expensive to produce.  Why does this book with the yellow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bob-servations.com&amp;blog=4896326&amp;post=428&amp;subd=londoninklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid extensive outages, BlackBerry issues new standard email signature.</title>
		<link>http://bob-servations.com/2011/10/13/amid-extensive-outages-blackberry-issues-new-standard-email-signature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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