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		<title>Getting Back into the Saddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; I feel like it&#8217;s been a long time since I really blogged for you guys. The summer&#8217;s been crazy with great projects and good summer fun. But I&#8217;m hoping to get my act together over the next few weeks so that I can get back into the blogging saddle again. I miss sharing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working It Like The Wiener&#8217;s Circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to share this because it makes me giggle everyday. There is a great hot dog joint in Herndon, VA, called The Wiener&#8217;s Circle. It&#8217;s a tiny little place in a strip mall on Spring St. with no seating but incredibly tasty hot dogs. The staff is sweet as pie. My husband works in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freelance Friday &#8211; Why I Do What I Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presenting at @marketingmisfit&#8217;s Social Media Primer. About a yer ago I moved from Northern Virginia, right outside of DC, to a small town in the Shenandoah Valley. While in the DC area I had primarily worked with corporations and associations, helping them with website development, social media marketing and project management. Most of these businesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Gets Spooky &#8211; Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halloween is by far one of my favorite holidays. I love the costumes, the creepy decorations at Target and the feeling that something &#8220;ain&#8217;t quite right &#8217;round here.&#8221; I spend the whole week getting in the mood by watching Rosemary&#8217;s Baby, eating candy corns and thinking about my costume. But in this high tech world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Fresh. Buy Local. Get Excellent Clients.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going slightly off-topic today because I feel like this topic is important enough to warrant a post. I&#8217;ll also preface this by saying that I really enjoy working with clients with a business that I can get behind and really believe in. My local butcher, Blue Ridge Meats, became a client at the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Seeding Hot Peppers Can Give You Web Enlightenment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God bless the farmer&#8217;s market. Every Friday I go to Marker Miller Orchards, my farmer&#8217;s market, to pick up veggies and bread for the week. I love buying fresh and local and Marker Miller has a great variety of seasonal veggies. Friday before last we were lucky enough to find a box of hot peppers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Antharia Makes You Feel Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Tuesday! I just wanted to give a quick shout out for my friend Jordan Dossett at Antharia, which is a great web development house which does loads of great work for nonprofits and even more for the community. Antharia is in a bind as their health insurance plan just increased which is making it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCWW Posse and Good Times @ TechAdventure DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to @JustinHerman, @AllanDelmare and @rcellars for hosting such a kick ass time at TechAdventure DC (#techadv) at Rappahannock Cellars on Saturday. While my 60+ companions loaded onto a bus at the Capitol building, my hubby and I loaded into the pickup (trash for the dump in the back) and headed to TechAdventure DC to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(My Thursday Rant) Is Social Media Getting Younger&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or am I getting older? I had a great conversation with a dear friend, Terri Holley, yesterday about how Generation Y, by nature, lives in complete integration with social media. My take away? They don&#8217;t think that they should tweet about an event &#8211; they do it instinctively. They text message like I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Link Luv</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking some time to do a little housekeeping today and decided to clean out my bookmarks. I always find the best forgotten sites when I decide to organize. So, today, here&#8217;s a little link luv for my now organized unsorted favorites. Using Social Media to Create Social Media Training &#8211; I get asked how [...]]]></description>
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