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		<title>Plone Wessex meetup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fantastic turn out for the Plone Wessex meet up last night – despite a couple of absences due to sickness and late working, we still had the largest gathering I’ve been to so far.

The Plone conference 2010 was obviously one of the main topics of conversation. Thanks to the efforts of Matt Hamilton, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no denying the massive growth of social media. It’s become a huge part of our culture, with 10% of all time spent on the internet  on social media sites. Whilst it’s important to get involved, with so many channels available it can be a little daunting at first. I joined the members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Futures Night - Winner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was World Usability Day 2009, so I joined the members of Bristol Usability Group (BUG) for ‘Futures Night’ at CX Partners. Not only was the evening an enjoyable mix of talk and debate about the future of the computing, but I also won the prize draw!

The evening began with Dave Ellender’s demonstration of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.open-comms.com/2009/11/futures-night-%c2%a0winner/</link>
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		<title>15 reasons for an agile, user centred approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m always looking for ways to promote an agile, user centred approach. Anyone who has taken a few steps into agile development, or taken a few moments to watch actual users, will know that this is the only way to go. It gets results.
Whilst I’m enlightened, I often need to remind myself that I’m often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.open-comms.com/2009/10/15-reasons-for-an-agile-user-centred-approach/</link>
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		<title>New rules for SEO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot happening in search lately. Yahoo! has finally given up the battle and sold up to Microsoft, increasing the market share for Bing, Microsoft&#8217;s recently launched search engine from around 8 to 28 percent. Google, still dominating with a massive 65% share of the market has recently announced Caffeine – a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.open-comms.com/2009/08/new-rules-for-seo/</link>
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		<title>Balloon Sprint</title>
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Ben and I attended the Bristol Plone Balloon Sprint this weekend, joining around 20 Plone developers and enthusiasts from across Europe. The sprint was kindly organised by Team Rubber, running from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon, to coincide with the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. The event started with welcome drinks in the Woods bar as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.open-comms.com/2009/08/balloon-sprint/</link>
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		<title>Becoming open minded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many years of licensed software development, in late 2007 we decided the time had come to embrace and support open source. This complete change of mindset, company name and business model did present a few initial hurdles, but we haven’t looked back. From my sales and project management perspectives, here’s why I feel this has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.open-comms.com/2009/07/becoming-open-minded/</link>
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