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	<title>Joshua MerrittJoshua Merritt - Creativity. Content strategy. Social media. And some other crap.</title>
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		<title>Stuff my mom never bought me &#8211; and neither did Rachel&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel at blogumutha and I lived parallel lives as kids. We were deprived of orthodontic devices, which explains my extreme self consciousness about my smile and the fact that she actually owns a grill (like Lil Wayne, not George Foreman.) I&#8217;m really not lying. She works in enterprise software at a big publicly traded corporation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate writing landing pages? So did I. Here&#8217;s how I got better at it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oli Gardner (@oligardner) gave me a chuckle this morning as he punched landing pages in the throat, then apologized and made googly eyes at them. I was laughing with him, not at him. . . I have had days where my own hate for landing pages flares across my pulmonary trunk down into the lobes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling, dining, revelry: Building a brand around an amazing word.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a word guy. Not a big word guy &#8211; I don&#8217;t claim to have a prodigious vocabulary (and yes, I did get prodigious from an online thesaurus). Mostly, I just love good words, the ones that make the common man feel something reverberate in his inner dictatal gland, which is the organ that stores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar nerds, what&#8217;s wrong with this Lean Cuisine package? Can you chipotle-mash something?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a guy at my office that eats Lean Cuisine&#8217;s for breakfast. And not breakfast Lean Cuisine&#8217;s, mind you; he eats the lunch and dinner varieties. Turkey tetrazzini. Meatloaf. Swallowed down with a liter bottle of Mountain Dew. Rise and shine, Matt, your Philly Style Steak and Cheese Panini is piping hot out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I crowdsourced my wardrobe decisions to my social media network</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In middle school, despite a raging astigmatism, I decided glasses were for dorks and begged my mom to get me contact lenses &#8211; for my birthday. Seriously. This was just a year or so after I asked for (and received) a full motion waterbed for Christmas, which my parents probably bought me knowing darned well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 rules for repurposing marketing content</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First and foremost, this blog entry is fresh content. It’s not compiled from 15 other blog entries, is not also a podcast, and was not promoted last week via Twitter under a different title and byline. Do you really care? Or more precisely, would you even know? Marketing Sherpa released a chart showcasing the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screw best practices. Why marketers should try new things fearlessly.</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamerritt.com/2012/10/01/screw-best-practices-why-marketers-should-try-new-things-fearlessly/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=screw-best-practices-why-marketers-should-try-new-things-fearlessly</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising / Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Screw best practices. I really mean it. Well, mostly, at least. We hear the phrase a hundred times a day, no matter what field we work in. IT, sales, marketing, finance &#8211; everything is about following best practices, taking a &#8220;best practices approach,&#8221; learning from industry best practices, blah blah blah blah. So when should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If curating content is easy, you&#8217;re doing it wrong: 5 tips for effective content curation</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamerritt.com/2012/09/20/if-curating-content-is-easy-youre-doing-it-wrong-5-tips-for-effective-content-curation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=if-curating-content-is-easy-youre-doing-it-wrong-5-tips-for-effective-content-curation</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m just going to come out and say it upfront: good (read: effective) content curating ain’t easy. All the tweets and posts and tools out there telling you that curating content is going to make you rich and famous and set your Klout score (should you actually care) rocketing from 14 to 85 overnight are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Klout: What Klout could be doing to earn my money &#8211; but isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamerritt.com/2012/09/17/losing-klout-what-klout-could-be-doing-to-earn-my-money-but-isnt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=losing-klout-what-klout-could-be-doing-to-earn-my-money-but-isnt</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To start, a full, honest disclosure. I am a sucker for ego affirming gratification. Likes and RT&#8217;s and +1&#8242;s &#8211; and yes, Klout scores (mine is a 57 today, if you are comparing) &#8211; were designed to feed the neurotic needs of people like me: lowly creative types who pine for acceptance and acknowledgment. We love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which Joshua gets a pedicure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Merritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s like Kegels, but for toes.” Wifey has really stumpy toes, like swollen potted sausages. Mine are long and graceful, like a piano player if his hands were cut off by a displeased king and his toes lengthened freakishly quickly to compensate for his disability. As I type this, I am flexing and spreading and [...]]]></description>
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