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		<title>TIME Magazine’s “Best Blogs of 2010”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several years, TIME Magazine has published its list of what the publication considers the “best blogs” in the world. The latest list was just recently announced: http://bit.ly/cOKYkG
The list covers everything from politics, housekeeping, and technology, to entertainment, consumer behavior and architecture — and just about everything in between.
While it is admittedly just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/06/29/time-magazine%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbest-blogs-of-2010%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Will Facebook Go Public?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook&#8217;s financial performance is stronger than previously believed, as the Internet social network&#8217;s explosive growth in users and advertisers boosted 2009 revenue to as much as $800 million, according to two sources familiar with the situation. The company also earned a solid net profit, in the tens of millions of dollars last year, one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/06/18/will-facebook-go-public/</link>
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		<title>FCC Looking to Reverse Its 2002 Decision to Deregulate Internet Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday launched a formal effort to give itself the clear authority to police Internet-service providers by changing the way Internet lines are regulated.
Under consideration is a proposal that would reverse a 2002 decision by the FCC that deregulated Internet lines and would give the agency stronger authority to police Internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/06/18/fcc-looking-to-reverse-its-2002-decision-to-deregulate-internet-lines/</link>
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		<title>World Cup is Going Social</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Cup has long been a social experience for fans around the world who cheer on their teams at bars, friends&#8217; houses and other public gatherings. This time around, brands are betting on a different kind of &#8220;social&#8221; to connect with fans.
Coca-Cola, Nike and Anheuser-Busch are just some of the brands that have made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/06/16/world-cup-is-going-social/</link>
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		<title>World Cup Fever is Upon Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World Cup fever pushed the Internet to a new record on Friday, according to measurements from Akamai. Traffic to news sites globally started a steady climb about 6 a.m. Eastern time and peaked six hours later at noon, reaching nearly 12.1 million visitors per minute. The traffic dipped going into the afternoon but stayed well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/06/16/world-cup-fever/</link>
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		<title>Building Equity: Social Media Meets Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a wonderful 1 hour webinar. Many financial services firms, bogged down by legal and compliance concerns, have been forced to take a cautious approach to social media, and some have chosen to ignore these channels altogether.
This SmartBrief Webinar, Building Equity: Social Media Meets Finance, is designed to help financial professionals safely and smartly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/05/26/building-equity-social-media-meets-finance/</link>
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		<title>Putting Social Media Policies in Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Illustrating just how quickly social media is evolving and impacting the corporate landscape, more and more leading companies and organizations are creating formalized social media policies to which their employees must adhere.  What is said on the likes of one’s personal Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter account, for example, can have a direct bearing on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/05/06/putting-social-media-policies-in-place/</link>
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		<title>The First Lady&#8217;s First Tweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Henry, Senior White House Correspondent was sitting next to the First Lady at Saturday night&#8217;s White House Correspondents Association Dinner when Mrs. Obama mentioned that she had never tweeted. Henry noted that the president had sent out his first tweet a few months ago from a Red Cross account to promote relief to Haiti [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/05/05/the-first-ladys-first-tweet/</link>
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		<title>Marketing Green – Not as Easy as You Think . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know I am a mother of three and an environmental steward.  I believe in sustainability and I am trying my hardest to be “green” — to make a cleaner planet for my kids.  But I read the most interesting article today about what consumers think “green” means, versus reality&#8230;. and I fell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/04/19/marketing-green-%e2%80%93-not-as-easy-as-you-think/</link>
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		<title>Social Media and Stranded Travelers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is in Basil on business and has been stranded there because of the no fly rule.  She is staying connected with us through social media and also finding out some really helpful information from other travelers in her same predicament.
If the volcanic ash from Iceland had made its way across Europe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentus.com/blog/2010/04/19/social-media-and-stranded-travelers/</link>
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