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	<link>http://adamsmit.com</link>
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		<title>So this is interesting . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m about to begin blogging and doing social media outreach for a new client, Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure. These guys, led by Wes Kussmaul, are looking to &#8220;boil the ocean&#8221; and change the way we think about online security. Their model asserts that the way we think about online security is fundamentally flawed. Rather than trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2012/02/01/so-this-is-interesting/</link>
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		<title>Heresy: Why SEO is overrated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little cranky at the moment. I want to fast forward the internet. Either that or sleep through the next 5-10 years. This SEO stuff is getting me down. I know things are always changing, but at this point they can&#8217;t change fast enough for me. A depressingly large subsection of the internet seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2012/01/19/heresy-why-seo-is-overrated/</link>
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		<title>Promo Video: WordPress Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote and recorded the narration for this video for TheTheFly.com, a new player in the WordPress themes game, and helped revamp much of their web content throughout the fall and winter of 2011-2012.]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/11/02/promo-video-wordpress-theme/</link>
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		<title>Newsletter: WordPress Tricks, Tips, and Hacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of fall 2011, I write a monthly newsletter and full supporting articles for the WordPress themes website TheTheFly.com. Each newsletter contains teaser text for 3 to 4 tips, tricks, and or hacks for optimizing WordPress websites, with a link leading from each teaser to the full article on TheTheFly&#8217;s website. I break down and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/08/31/newsletter-wordpress-tricks-tips-and-hacks/</link>
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		<title>Direct Mail: Invitation Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This letter was composed to invite steady supporters to a heavily-promoted fundraising gala as part of a greater effort utilizing 2-3 mailings, social media, and an email campaign.]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/07/13/direct-mail-invitation-letter/</link>
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		<title>Goods for Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love freelancing. But every now and then, a full-time possibility presents itself that is just too good not to jump at, and last month one such possibility came to me via Idealist. Before I go any further, I&#8217;ll kill the suspense: I didn&#8217;t get this particular full-time job. Somebody with deeper, more applicable experience did. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/06/17/goods-for-good/</link>
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		<title>E-learning: Sales Training Script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the e-learning scripts I worked on at Chicago&#8217;s NogginLabs are private and hence not available for portfolio purposes, I wrote this module as part of their hiring process. Given 4 hours and a set of guidelines, I produced a section of a potential script for a hypothetical client looking to train bank tellers in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/04/05/e-learning-sales-training-script/</link>
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		<title>The Fruited Plain Cafe Hits the New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shameless plug for a friend&#8217;s business here&#8211;but it&#8217;s a great business well worth shamelessly plugging. In fact, I amend my adjective: This is a shame-free plug for a friend&#8217;s excellent business. The Fruited Plain Cafe was just written up in the New York Times. Co-owned and managed by Laremy DeVries, a man with whom I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/04/03/the-fruited-plain-cafe-hits-the-new-york-times/</link>
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		<title>You know what&#8217;s &#8220;meta?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A blog post about how my website (wherein my blog is contained) is now finished. My website is now finished! It took a lot longer than I expected, and I had to learn a little about PHP and a lot about WordPress, but here she is. If you&#8217;ve got any feedback, I&#8217;m 97% ears. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/03/30/you-know-whats-meta/</link>
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		<title>Cold is a state of mind.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Chicago, complaining about winter is just a thing we do. It&#8217;s cathartic, communal, and commiserative. That&#8217;s co-misery . . . ative&#8211;you get the idea. We complain about the cold weather, wind, and lack of sunlight during the winter months, and we do it up right. Usually, I complain with the best of them, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adamsmit.com/2011/03/25/cold-is-a-state-of-mind/</link>
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