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		<title>Urban Life in Modern China: rush-rush to crush-crush</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1985, controversial French sociologist Michel Maffesoli created the term &#8220;urban tribe&#8221; to describe groups of people who share common interests. The current issue of The Economist has a fascinating article about the subdivisions of urban China into various improbably named tribes (or zu in Mandarin). These include: Yi zu, or ant tribe—recent graduates from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Industry: China will win, hands down</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2012/01/16/manufacturing-industry-why-china-will-win-hands-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2012/01/16/manufacturing-industry-why-china-will-win-hands-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxconn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I download podcasts and listen to them on my drive to work. Today, driving my 16-year-old car which has any number of replacement auto parts keeping it on the road, listening to a 3-year-old Apple iPod, I heard two stories which described how electronics and auto parts are manufactured in China and America. Apart a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Posting: Worst Brand Name Award of 2011,  by Alexandra Watkins</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2012/01/13/guest-posting-worst-brand-name-award-of-2011-by-alexandra-watkins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2012/01/13/guest-posting-worst-brand-name-award-of-2011-by-alexandra-watkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eat My Words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alexandra Watkins is the Founder &#038; Chief Innovation Officer at Eat My Words, a San Francisco based creative naming agency known for creating unforgettable brand names. The following post originally appeared in her blog and is reposted here with her express permission. Announcing the most frightful brand name of 2011… the Head Scratcher of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Creative challenges for the Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/12/22/video-creative-challenges-for-the-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/12/22/video-creative-challenges-for-the-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s wishing everyone a Happy Holiday with the sincere wish that clients or managers at work don&#8217;t try your patience in the ways shown in these two hilarious videos. Do either of these creative challenges resonate with you? Viewpoint Creative &#8211; Holiday Card from Viewpoint Creative on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Relevant Resources: Holiday Gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/12/10/relevant-resources-holiday-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/12/10/relevant-resources-holiday-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Speakers Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I help edit SPEAKER Magazine for the National Speakers Association (NSA). Each month I curate the Relevant Resources column &#8211; a list of time-saving tools and technologies. The December edition listed a variety of gifts suitable for clients, speakers&#8217; bureau contacts, colleagues, friends and loved ones. Whether the recipient is a foodie, science geek, chocolate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infographic: All About Money</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-all-about-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-all-about-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve blogged about ways to represent large numbers that uses images of a trillion dollars stacked on pallets. Now, thanks to Kostas, my financial adviser, here&#8217;s a fascinating chart that&#8217;s all about money. To view, be sure to click on the &#8216;+&#8217; symbol in the upper left of the screen a few times until you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic Roundabout</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/10/03/the-magic-roundabout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/10/03/the-magic-roundabout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Round and round it goes Round and round it goes - Spandau Ballet I recently heard a startling NPR report on Roundabouts in the USA. The report highlights that, over the past decade, the number of roundabouts in the U.S. has increased dramatically, from the low hundreds up to the thousands. Traffic circles (as roundabouts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiffany Shlain&#8217;s stunning autobiographical film</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/09/19/tiffany-shlains-stunning-autobographical-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/09/19/tiffany-shlains-stunning-autobographical-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deep End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adi Da Samraj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leonard shlain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiffany shlain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I invited my daughter to the Shattuck Cinema in Berkeley for the opening weekend of Tiffany Shlain&#8217;s latest film Connected. Since we both work at Cisco, and the movie trailer promised a discussion of internet and connectivity, I thought we&#8217;d both find it interesting and relevant to our day jobs. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of the speechwriter</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-rise-of-the-speechwriter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-rise-of-the-speechwriter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speechwriting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speechwriters are the coming thing. In fact, this is a profession that is more talked about, and more written about, than ever. Want proof? According to the Google Ngrams database of millions of terms from their vast collection of digitized books in American English, “speechwriter” is an increasingly common word. Here&#8217;s the results for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The King James Bible at 400</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/05/02/the-king-james-bible-at-400/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/05/02/the-king-james-bible-at-400/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 14:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speechwriting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, in May 1611, with a review of a wide range of books on the topic. This King James Bible is clearly, to date, the most read book in the English language. It was translated from prior Latin, Greek and Hebrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Recommendation: The Likeness, by Tana French</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/04/18/book-recommendation-the-likeness-by-tana-french/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/04/18/book-recommendation-the-likeness-by-tana-french/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tana french]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading an astonishing well-written novel by the Irish writer Tana French. The Likeness is a police crime story set in modern Ireland. Published in 2008, it foreshadows the collapse of the Irish economy in an orgy of property speculation. Tana French&#8217;s novels are set on the edges of Irish society. Her third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unleash your imagination: watch creative videos</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/01/31/unleash-your-imagination-watch-creative-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/01/31/unleash-your-imagination-watch-creative-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shallow End]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/?p=3370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Executive communications professionals increasingly work with video. They range from simple Flip videos which tell winning stories to full-blown studio productions with panel discussions, remote participation via TelePresence and pre-recorded transition or interstitial segments. The challenge is to not only to research, script, edit and produce the content, but to do so in as creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judson Welliver&#8217;s laundry lists</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/01/25/judson-wellivers-laundry-lists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/01/25/judson-wellivers-laundry-lists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Speaking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of the annual State of the Union speech is examined in a fascinating article by Bob Lehrman in the Christian Science Monitor. State of The Union: The crafting of a speech looks back at the speechwriters and presidents who have delivered State of the Union (SOTU) speeches. The very first speechwriter to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended: The King&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/01/06/recommended-the-kings-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/01/06/recommended-the-kings-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[movie review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed the Tom Hooper movie The King&#8217;s Speech with Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. It details the relationship between a (literally) tongue-tied King George VI and the Australian speech coach he rather reluctantly hires to help him overcome his debilitating stutter. The film covers the period leading up to his ascension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Posting: The Global Crisis is Deadly, Dangerous &#8211; and it can be Overcome</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/10/18/guest-posting-the-global-crisis-is-deadly-dangerous-and-it-can-be-overcome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/10/18/guest-posting-the-global-crisis-is-deadly-dangerous-and-it-can-be-overcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Bumstead was General Manager of, and is now an adviser to, the Global Cooperation Project. He is an adviser to new initiatives, Four Years Go and the Green Tea Party, and a seed group member of his local Transitions Town initiative in Lake County, California. After teaching, at M.I.T., and at London and Antioch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representing Scale: Powers of Ten</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/07/06/representing-scale-powers-of-ten/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/07/06/representing-scale-powers-of-ten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent post on representing large numbers in a speech coincided with preparing to publish the second part of Denna Jones&#8217; guest posting on why she&#8217;s switching from PowerPoint to Prezi. Denna, an architect and speaker, references the 1977 film, Powers of Ten, by Charles and Ray Eames. The film &#8230; has the capacity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>197 top tweets from #hay</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/06/08/197-top-tweets-from-hay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/06/08/197-top-tweets-from-hay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts generated somewhere between 4,000 &#8211; 5,000 tweets. The ephemeral nature of Twitter means the stream of commentary is no longer available inside the tool used to write them. However, they&#8217;re all here, in an archive of #hay tweets. Rather irritatingly, this includes all the #Hayward, #hayama, #HayleyWilliams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/05/30/2010-hay-festival-of-literature-and-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 07:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hay-on-Wye]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I mentioned the annual literature festival happening every May in the small Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye. This year&#8217;s event is currently in full swing and I&#8217;m following the proceedings on blogs, podcasts and Twitter. There&#8217;s a wonderfully charged intensity about the people who attend &#8211; relishing the excuse to rub shoulders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Mothers Day: UK TV Advert honors role of women</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-uk-tv-advert-honors-role-of-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-uk-tv-advert-honors-role-of-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 21:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Weekend Financial Times profiled a moving TV advert which honors the role of women: Set to a cover version of Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;She&#8217;s always a woman&#8221;, the spot shows the life of a woman: a little girl blows out her birthday candles, marries, moves home, has children, grows older and walks off into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of an Englishman over 50</title>
		<link>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/05/07/confessions-of-an-englishman-over-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/05/07/confessions-of-an-englishman-over-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Genova]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long admired Jane Genova whose speechwriting blog is featured in my Blogroll. She&#8217;s a prolific writer who also writes on career challenges for the over 50&#8242;s. Jane noticed that I reviewed her book, Over-50: How We Keep Working, and asked if I would agree to be interviewed for her profiles of &#8220;Fifty people over [...]]]></description>
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