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	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>National Day of Listening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, when you're gathered with friends and family trying to figure out what to do with yourselves after that meal, consider participating in the National Day of Listening.  It's an opportunity to hear and record the stories that we all have to share about our lives, our greatest and hardest moments, and the lessons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff evaluations: giving feedback, building strong teams</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/staff-evaluations-giving-feedback-building-strong-teams.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/staff-evaluations-giving-feedback-building-strong-teams.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/?p=462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of my time in the last few weeks has been consumed by working on staff evaluations at Summersault.  It's at times tedious and exhausting, but really rewarding in the end, I think.  I just posted some more about how we do it on the Summersault Blog:
"If you read my previous post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is eating locally produced food a bad idea?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/is-eating-locally-produced-food-a-bad-idea.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/is-eating-locally-produced-food-a-bad-idea.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[consumer watch]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[energy_crisis]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday's Palladium-Item, editorial board member and local blogger Matthew Hisrich proposed that eating locally, and other kinds of localized consumption behaviors, might be ineffective, or even bad for us:
[W]here does this drive for relocalizing come from? Perhaps it has to do with a vague sense of ethical rightness more than anything scientifically verifiable. University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 reasons to start using Gravatars right now</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/4-reasons-to-start-using-gravatars-right-now.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/4-reasons-to-start-using-gravatars-right-now.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've said before that to truly participate in public life, we must do so as ourselves, with our identities revealed.  Online discussions are now a part of the public sphere, and when used well, can bring people together in ways that complement and enhance real-world community.
A related trend I'm appreciating is the increasing number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the President of the U.S. use e-mail?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/can-the-president-of-the-us-use-e-mail.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/can-the-president-of-the-us-use-e-mail.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times has a nice little article today about why Barack Obama will probably have to give up the use of his Blackberry - and e-mail altogether - when he becomes President:
As his team prepares a final judgment on whether he can keep using e-mail, perhaps even in a read-only fashion, several authorities in presidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links, and what I'm thinking about</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/links-and-what-im-thinking-about.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on.  First, some links:

Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the strange way the 11 PM Eastern network television calling of the election works, cognitive dissonance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Important Part</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/the-most-important-part.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important words spoken last night, I think:
This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.
It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Local press conference - at the mall?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/buy-local-press-conference-at-the-mall.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/buy-local-press-conference-at-the-mall.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not April first yet, so I couldn't really stop my jaw from dropping to the ground on this one:  The Richmond-Wayne County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Richmond will be holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon to promote buying local - to be held at the  mall, which is predominantly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Mobs</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/11/flash-mobs.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash mobs are large groups of people who assemble suddenly in a public place to perform an unexpected action, and then quickly disperse. For example, here's a mob hitting New York City:

Flash mobs are interesting to me for a few reasons:
They're usually groups of strangers who don't necessarily have anything else in common, coming together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undo</title>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/10/undo.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that I was playing around with the Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress, and that it was generating these weekly digests of my Twitter posts on Fridays.  I'm not going to do that anymore, but you can always follow me on Twitter directly or with your favorite blog/RSS feed reader/twitter tool or [...]]]></description>
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