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	<title>David A. West</title>
	<link>http://www.davidawest.com</link>
	<description>David A. West  - musings of a web developer, open-source advocate, and Calgary Entrepreneur</description>
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		<title>Calgary Search Engine Optimization Consulting Firm Partners with MSP University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News: 26 Jul 2010 05:53 AM PDT Ulistic and MSP University announce Strategic Partnership IT VAR and Managed Services Providers win as two marketing leaders join forces to offer a comprehensive, effective online marketing solution to the channel Ulistic, a leading Internet consulting firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and an organization focused on delivering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/07/26/calgary-search-engine-optimization-consulting-firm-partners-with-msp-university/</link>
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		<title>Angel Rodriguez, Frito Lay VP joins Ulistic&#8217;s Small Business Podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tune in live on July 22nd for a very special Ulistic Small Business Podcast with Angel Rodriguez, Frito Lay VP and Leadership speaker. Join Ulistic&#8217;s team along with Frito Lay VP Angel Rodriguez as we discuss Leadership in today&#8217;s global economy. Angel recently decided that speaking on Leadership as part of his career at Frito [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/07/20/angel-rodriguez-frito-lay-vp-joins-ulistics-small-business-podcast/</link>
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		<title>Webinar: Leverage Facebook Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can your small business leverage Facebook? Looking for the secret recipe on marketing your business on Facebook? What special tricks can you learn about one of the Internet’s most popular network platforms? Do you have a Facebook Marketing Strategy? Facebook is here to stay. Just look at the cover of Canadian Business on July [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/30/webinar-leverage-facebook-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Have You Ever Said Something You Want to Take Back?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The point of email is to communicate. Years ago, when I felt like I was one of 4 people in Canada with an email account, I read a bit on email ettiquette. One of the points always stuck with me, “One day you will send an email that you will regret.” I have indeed. Have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/28/have-you-ever-said-something-you-want-to-take-back/</link>
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		<title>3 Reasons Your Search Engine Optimization Plan Isn’t Working the Way You Thought it Would</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among online marketers, few things are as misunderstood as search engine optimization. The premise is simple enough: get your site to one of the top rankings for important keywords on Google, Yahoo, or Bing, and new customers will flood in through the virtual front door. The reality, however, is that it&#8217;s usually a whole lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/24/3-reasons-your-search-engine-optimization-plan-isn%e2%80%99t-working-the-way-you-thought-it-would/</link>
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		<title>Job Seeker Wins First Page Google Result</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Her resume was posted on a website and was indexed by Google &#8230;exposing it all. Have you ever submitted a resume&#8217; or other personal information to a company only to have it show up on the Internet, in it&#8217;s entirety, on Google search results? That&#8217;s what happened recently to a job seeker in Calgary. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/22/reputation-management-calgary/</link>
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		<title>YouTube Introduces Video Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While still in it&#8217;s infancy, YouTube has introduced a video editor (available through labs) or at this address. It is a rather simple interface that allows you to clip the front and end of any of the videos in your account and then join to other portions of your own video archive. A second track [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/20/youtube-introduces-video-editor/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Me This: Unlocking the Door to Tweet Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid the vast range of online marketing tools available today, Twitter is a bit unique. That&#8217;s because unlike Facebook, it doesn&#8217;t give you the option of outright advertising; neither is it restricted solely to business contacts, like LinkedIn, nor does it allow for the depth of expression that a personal or company blog would. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/18/twitter-me-this-unlocking-the-door-to-tweet-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Googler Maile Ohye Delivers Keyword Rich Keynote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maile Ohye, of Google&#8217;s Webmaster Central team, delivered the keynote discussion this morning at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Toronto. She gave a room full of webmasters, search engine practitioners and website owners the scoop&#8230; “right from the horses mouth”, as the moderator mentioned. Although horse is not a term that describes this vibrant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/11/google-maile-ohye-keynote/</link>
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		<title>Improve User Experience &amp; Get More Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Eisenberg, who recently lost ½ his body weight, is not losing anything online. Improve user experience and get higher conversion goals or advertise for more traffic? All major brands focus on constant improvement. Eisenberg presented at the SES Toronto this morning, and I had the pleasure of sitting in on his session. Eisneberg&#8217;s presentation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/10/get-more-customers-online/</link>
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		<title>SES Toronto is Underway – Here&#8217;s the Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Crawford &#38; I are on the ground and registered at the Toronto Search Engine Strategies conference. Stuart has selected a series of alternate speakers sessions to participate in. It was relatively easy for us to choose the sessions that peeked our general interests. One of the reasons that Stuart and I are excellent business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/10/ses-toronto-is-underway-%e2%80%93-heres-the-plan/</link>
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		<title>Off to Toronto for #SESTO – Search Engine Strategies Toronto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart, already in Toronto, and I will be attending the Search Engine Strategies conference June 10th and 11th. We have been invited to participate wearing our “press” passes and will be blogging through the event. We both consider this an honour and look forward to learning from our peers and sharing our thoughts with you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/06/09/off-to-toronto-for-sesto-%e2%80%93-search-engine-strategies-toronto/</link>
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		<title>The Simple Things in Life Are Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very often the simple things are the ones that work too. If you need to collaborate, keep track of things to do or manage projects then here are some web-based apps that are free or nearly free that you should have a look at. Have you heard of Paste Interactive?  These folks are doing some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/05/29/the-simple-things-in-life-are-free/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Cool In the World of the Web Today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s annual developer conference is well underway and there are a number of predictions and announcements being made. These advancements in both Google product offerings as well as technology announcements. Technology announcements / predictions such as the general adoption of HTML 5 over the coming months. HTML 5 is being developed as the new standard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/05/21/whats-cool-in-the-world-of-the-web-today/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Blog Training Comes to Calgary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our team over at Ulistic.com are launching our newest Workshop in a series of Internet Marketing related programs. Join Stuart and I on June 23rd at the Blackfoot Inn where we will not only give you a powerfully tuned installation of WordPress, we are going to show you how to use it. But not just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/05/20/wordpress-blog-training-comes-to-calgary/</link>
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		<title>Will Flash Ever Work on the iPad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The iPod, iPhone and the new iPad all have the Safari browser installed. The Safari browser on these mobile devices do not support Flash. Apple will likely be investigated under U.S. Anti-Trust laws. Their policy to not allow Flash is backwards and contradicts what the users of their devices want. Well, that is what I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/05/15/will-flash-ever-work-on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>The Ulistic SEO Canadian Tour Launches May 18th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come and join Ulistic starting on May 18 for a Canadian tour hitting three cities in 3 weeks.  Ulistic will be sharing the art of Search Engine Optimization with small business in Calgary, Toronto and Niagara Falls. Interested in learning how to manage your own search engine optimization? Want to learn how social media can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/05/05/seo-training-canada/</link>
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		<title>Live Blog &#8211; LinkedIn for Business Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join me here at 8:45 for a live blog &#8211; Stuart Crawford will be starting the Linkedin for business seminar in Calgary. I will live blog the first half hour or so of the seminar. LinkedIn for Business]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/04/27/live-blog-linkedin-for-business-introduction/</link>
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		<title>The ABC&#8217;s of Google Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join Stuart Crawford and David West from Ulistic, leading Calgary SEO Professionals for this very special mentoring breakfast at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce in the heart of downtown Calgary. There will be plenty of free parking at the IMPARK lot across from the new Bow Tower (North) and James Short Parkade (East). We have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/04/19/the-abcs-of-google-search/</link>
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		<title>Before I am Forced to Commit Social Suicide&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going to carefully pick my battles. That&#8217;s why signing up for Naymz isn&#8217;t in my immediate plans. There is a lot of “buzz” out there about social media marketing. Even in the past quarter we see more “social” sites popping up, Naymz and Google Buzz to name a couple. It&#8217;s all so really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/04/05/before-i-am-forced-to-commit-social-suicide/</link>
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		<title>Calgary Social Media Consultants Open Shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 1, 2010 Ulistic Inc., a Calgary Social Media consultancy and search engine optimization service have opened a registration site. The new registration site is where Ulistic will feature upcoming training workshops. Currently workshops, scheduled and ready for registrations include; Search Engine Optimization Social Media for Business Owners A Social Media Breakfast for Real Estate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/04/01/calgary-social-media-consultants-open-shop/</link>
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		<title>King Ralph is back again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CALGARY, AB. &#8211; The notorious new television program that&#8217;s been making headlines from coast to coast is set to broadcast Part 2! Featured on the front page of the National Post and every major TV, radio and newspaper network, Ralph Klein&#8217;s latest under-taking has the entire nation abuzz. On Saturday night, the former Alberta premier, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/26/king-ralph-is-back-again/</link>
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		<title>Why You May Want to Adopt Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To make friends and grow your “circle of influence” No doubt some people are using social media sites like Twitter to build a list of loyal followers and to follow people of influence. The “social circle” can become an important influence on some. Others may be influenced. A great example of this potential influence is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/18/why-you-may-want-to-adopt-social-media/</link>
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		<title>The Way Email Disclaimers Should Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer This email, together with any attachments, is intended ONLY for the people that have access to it via the intricate network of firewalls, routers and servers that are required to deliver it to it&#8217;s final and real intended recipient&#8230; the entity to which it is addressed.  It may contain information that is legally privileged, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/15/the-way-email-disclaimers-should-read/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not About Your Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is about &#8220;when&#8221; you deliver your knowledge. Have you ever met with a business person, and before you have a chance to get to know them, they take pause to &#8220;offer you some insight&#8221;. For example, a quick critique of your business card. They may offer,  &#8220;it is the most important part of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/11/its-not-about-your-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>Burn Baby Burn&#8230; Is Your Reputation on Fire?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a distributed technology and communications platform, the people who created the internet did not intended it to become a soap box for customers to burn their service providers in effigy. The question used to be, &#8220;how can I get my website on first page Google?&#8221;  Now the question is, &#8220;how can I get this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/06/burn-baby-burn-is-your-reputation-on-fire/</link>
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		<title>My Friend&#8217;s Dog Can&#8217;t Hold it&#8217;s Bladder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;because dogs don&#8217;t have thumbs. It&#8217;s really a matter of how you look at life. When people make statements, it isn&#8217;t really the statement that counts, it&#8217;s what pops into the listeners head that counts. Years ago, I read a list on &#8220;email etiquette&#8221; that included the caution that one day &#8220;you&#8221; will write an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/05/my-friends-dog-cant-hold-its-bladder/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Calgary Social Media Consultant Holding Back?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about your Search Engine Optimization expert? Do they hold their cards so close to their chest that you have no idea what their next move is? “Baby Google” Causes a New Industry Called SEO Only 10 years ago, when Google search was in it’s infancy, a whole new industry started to appear. Search Engine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2010/03/05/is-your-calgary-social-media-consultant-holding-back/</link>
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		<title>Google – What You See Is What You Get</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Is it?  Google is now serving personalized search results to everyone&#8230; There have been a number of changes in the way that Google displays search results. These changes are subtle and have been rolled out slowly over the past months. If you care about where your website or information about your business surfaces online, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/12/10/google-%e2%80%93-what-you-see-is-what-you-get/</link>
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		<title>Google Favourite Places and Bar Codes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Google continues to develop it&#8217;s “Local Business Centre” one of the new advents is the introduction of physical labels that include a barcode. These physical labels are being sent to business owners that have already verified ownership of their Local Business listing on Google maps. The barcode, or QR Code that is on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/12/08/google-favourite-places-and-bar-codes/</link>
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		<title>Identify Yourself&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would you do business with a person who didn&#8217;t tell you their name or hand you a business card when you met them? Would you consider requesting a proposal from an online service that does not include a phone number, contact form, or address on their website? It is not difficult to find websites on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/12/02/identify-yourself/</link>
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		<title>How is Your Business Being Promoted with Social Media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty brilliant &#8211; this YouTube video explains how Ikea used existing tagging capabilities of FaceBook to encourage syndication and interaction with their online gallery promoting the opening of a new store.  Watch the video&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/11/25/how-is-your-business-being-promoted-with-social-media/</link>
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		<title>What if You Had No Control At Your Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As social media and the onslaught of “free-for-all” user contributed content storms the web, until recently one of the few areas you had complete control over was your own website. That recently changed. Google has launched it&#8217;s new “Sidewiki” as a portion to the Google Toolbar. Now as people surf the net they are being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/10/14/what-if-you-had-no-control-at-your-website/</link>
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		<title>Canadian Small Business Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Crawford from Bulletproof InfoTech is at it again, yes, he is starting another blog focused on delivering information to the small business community throughout Canada. The Canadian Small Business Blog launched over the past weekend with a goal to help entrepreneurs, small business owners and those who work in small business from coast to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/10/05/canadian-small-business-blog/</link>
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		<title>Do You Want More Leads from Your Website?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has the economy slowed your business down? I talk to a lot of small business owners in a week and the general consensus is that most companies have seen a decline in revenue over the past 12 months. You really have two choices to make when your business is slow – cut expenses or increase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidawest.com/2009/09/18/do-you-want-more-leads-from-your-website/</link>
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