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		<title>Back on the Beat – Reporting on #blogchat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted to Beetles Beat since last October. Been too busy with other blogs, but have been wanting to get back to my own. And, now, here&#8217;s the perfect incentive: to recognize and pass along the word about a Web community on blogging.
The last post I did was about community in my old neighborhood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=210</link>
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		<title>Before TV, We Communicated; Social Media is Such an Opportunity Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to a seminar on social media today and both enjoyed and bemoaned it – enjoyed it because I got reaffirmation of what social media is about, bemoaned it because the presenter didn&#8217;t make that clear enough. It&#8217;s about a change in life and listening style. 
Social media is about attempting to recreate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Be Wary of &#8216;Emotional Hijackings&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At their next meeting, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley might consider forming a  &#8220;Cool It Club&#8221; that should have chapters in every community in America – especially in Washington, D.C.
I wasn&#8217;t there, but by all accounts, what appears to have happened at the Cambridge home of Professor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=185</link>
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		<title>Crisis Communication Becoming Locally Global</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best laid plans of corporate and governmental communicators for providing – and controlling – information during a crisis are being undone by the growing use of social media.
People building personal networks on Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist, Flickr and other social media today would be turning  to them tomorrow to ask questions and spread information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=169</link>
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		<title>Baldridge Criteria Can Improve Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In communication terms, as well as those of production, organizations can do well by adopting the Baldridge Criteria for Performance Excellence, whether they intend to seek the national quality award or not. 
Boiled down, which is what Quality Digest does handily in its April issue, the Baldridge criteria are leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Countering Information Overload</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was Kathleen Parker on the op-ed page of The Washington Post writing about a &#8220;TMI-addled nation.&#8221; Her reflections coincided with the 30th anniversary of the accident at my former workplace, and I thought for a moment she was exaggerating the anniversary&#8217;s impact a bit. But no, she was reflecting on &#8220;Too Much Information.&#8221; Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=154</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Back, With a Focus on Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re back, with a little sharper focus than before. On the beat, we&#8217;ll be talking about  communication – communication that occurs in groups, organizations and society at large. It may, or may not, just happen &#8211; good communication usually doesn&#8217;t occur that way &#8211; but we&#8217;ll be looking for examples of situations that were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Posting Suspended, Pending Site Improvements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posting on Beetles Beat is temporarily suspended while changes are made on the Resource Relations website to reflect the growing importance of social media and to launch a second blog, this one on organizational communication.  All should be up and running fairly soon. We are looking forward to a wider conversation, and new relationships, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Where We Are Isn&#8217;t Pretty, and It Isn&#8217;t Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there was ever an example of why the nation is in deep economic disarray, it&#8217;s the result yesterday of the visit by the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; auto companies to Washington. That and the real restate environment I happened to learn about in my old neighborhood in Queens, New York.
The auto companies displayed no sense of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=125</link>
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		<title>An Earmark to Celebrate – There Must be Others, Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Central Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Holden was at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center yesterday to announce and get deserved credit for a $2.8 million appropriation he included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for development of the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. He&#8217;s done that six times now, and has provided $31 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beetlesbeat.resourcerelations.net/?p=119</link>
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