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	<title>Vivant Media</title>
	<link>http://vivant-media.com</link>
	<description>The blog for web development professionals</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>LinkedIn is possibly the best professional networking site ever</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/linkedin-is-possibly-the-best-professional-networking-site-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just signed up for a LinkedIn profile today and I already have 3 connections and 2 recommendations, with more pending. This website has a very high potential to boost my career and get me connected with people high up. I highly recommend that anyone who has a good job check this website out!
www.linkedin.com
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		<title>Webmasterradio Talks About BOOMj</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/webmasterradio-talks-about-boomj/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on Webmasterradio.fm there was a show called Rush Hour that talked about BOOMj. Our Search Marketing expert, Joe Whyte, was lucky enough to be part of this show.
Listen to the archived MP3
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		<title>The explosion of social networks</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/the-explosion-of-social-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas and Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After witnessing the soaring popularity of social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, other companies are beginning to jump into the fray now. Ning, Eons, BOOMj.com, and many others.
I think the question we all should ask is, &#8220;How long is the social networking craze going to last?&#8221;
Obviously, humans thrive on socializing and interacting with other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WebProNews features BOOMj.com in an article</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/webpronews-features-boomjcom-in-an-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I opened my MacBook upon returning home from a night out with friends and discovered an email waiting in my inbox from WebProNews. It was their daily newsletter for July 7th and it featured an article by Jason Lee Miller about Baby Boomers and our social network. Here&#8217;s an excerpt and if you want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meta tags do not equal interweb Armageddon</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/meta-tags-do-not-equal-interweb-armageddon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adding metatags from within a CMS does not unleash Armageddon on your site, period.
This has been a friendly reminder and Public Service Announcement.
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		<title>SEO: Does it do more harm than good?</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/seo-does-it-do-more-harm-than-good/</link>
		<comments>http://vivant-media.com/articles/seo-does-it-do-more-harm-than-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about search engine rankings going bad. I&#8217;m talking about SEO techniques making website functionality break.
If you take a plain-vanilla website that&#8217;s been built with only HTML and images, that&#8217;s an easy site to optimize for SEs. However, throw in things like dynamic pages, URL rewrites, redirects, and so on and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of clean, well-structured XHTML</title>
		<link>http://vivant-media.com/articles/the-importance-of-clean-well-structured-xhtml/</link>
		<comments>http://vivant-media.com/articles/the-importance-of-clean-well-structured-xhtml/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Marshall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You've seen the horrors before. You were browsing a site that had a really cool design, and you view-sourced it to learn about their underlying code.

But... it... was... a... disaster!!!]]></description>
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