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		<title>Why read blogs?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/why-read-blogs/989</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 23:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading and excellent bog on &#8220;Why Blog&#8221; and it&#8217;s a shame that ITW&#8217;s Blog Idol 2010 is coming to an end, nonetheless I thought I&#8217;d toss in my 2 cents on why I think people should read blogs. Personally I think there are 3 primary reasons, these are: 1. To learn. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there peace without a Smart Phone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 2.5 years I have been addicted to my smart phone, not the worlds greatest, I&#8217;ve had both  HTC Touch and Touch Pro with Windows Mobile 6.0 then 6.1. Yes, the web browsing was basic, the phone (voice calls) was bearable, but I have really enjoyed the syncing of all my email and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMforce: No Software + No Hardware?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/vmforce-no-software-no-hardware/745</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FinanicalForce.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hobbling thru the choppy live webcast yesterday and trying to piece together all the PR fluff, blogger commentary and random 140 character posts on Twitter I am still not sure how VMforce will be a monetize-able joint venture between VMware and SFDC. At one point in the conversation it was remarked that SFDC and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>facebook do we still trust thee?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/facebook-do-we-still-trust-thee/732</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use facebook. I was late to the party and started only a year or so ago. But my posts and any information that I place have gotten fewer over the last six months as I simply am not sure I trust facebook. I enjoy communicating with my friends outside of email, but as fb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Social in Canada: Jive Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended Jive Software’s Get Social tour stop in Toronto and left impressed not only with the company’s software and strategy, but with the quality of attendance at the event. The event featured a hour (and a bit) of keynotes including a look at how Canada’s RIM has used Jive’s SBS to deploy mybackberry.com. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SFDC and VMware: Software + Services comes to AppExchange?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com continues to ramp up its cloud offering and bolster its position as a leading business applications provider for companies of all sizes. News is now out that later this month there will be a big announcement from SFDC and VMware of a joint product announcement &#8211; you can even see the mock up landing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying a PC: Feature or Fashion?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/buying-a-pc-feature-or-fashion/551</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got an email today from Apple with the subject &#8220;More speed. More power. The new MacBook Pro family.&#8221; Sure enough the new MacBook Pro line was out! What!?! (you gasp I am sure) Apple can sell something besides and &#8220;phone&#8221; or &#8220;pad&#8220;?!? I like Macs so I took a look at the new machines and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Twitter</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/team-twitter/544</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/team-twitter/544#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning when I dutifully headed over to Canadian-developed Twitter dashboard Hootsuite I was prompted that one of my profiles had multiple owners and that I needed to assign one as primary, then once entering the upgraded API there were a slew of new tools for each of my twitter accounts where I could administer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Business Gets Social: SalesForce’s Chatter and SAP’s StreamWork</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/the-business-gets-social-salesforce%e2%80%99s-chatter-and-sap%e2%80%99s-streamwork/490</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/the-business-gets-social-salesforce%e2%80%99s-chatter-and-sap%e2%80%99s-streamwork/490#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in 2009 both SalesForce.com and SAP began beta testing social applications that proposed businesses could use social tools within their walls to address a variety of needs from financial management and sales tracking to impromptu group collaboration. Since then both of these solutions have gone live and are beginning to garner much interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRM: Customer engagement challenges lay beyond Technology</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/crm-customer-engagement-challenges-lay-beyond-technology/486</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/crm-customer-engagement-challenges-lay-beyond-technology/486#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a blog entitled “Why we cannot get CRM (and SCRM) right” that triggered several thoughts; not as much on CRM but with regards to a challenge I used to face when ‘us’ marketeers wanted to try something drastically new. The more I thought I realized the problem (that I&#8217;ll try to illustrate [...]]]></description>
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