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		<title>Communicating emergencies in the age of decentralized media</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/11/communicating-emergencies-in-the-age-of-decentralized-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had an interesting experience in Portland this past weekend when our typically pristine water supply was tainted by e. coli, affecting west-side residents and businesses. That meant that anyone served by the tainted reservoir had to boil their water before using it — which is no big deal for people who are used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining &quot;Crowdsourcing&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become a dirty world in the creative community. &#8220;Crowdsourcing&#8221; often means a business has chosen to ask all-comers to submit responses to the businesses request – be it a logo, web site design, or engineering design for NASA&#8217;s next space shuttle – with no guarantee of pay or selection of their submitted work. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Communicators: Evolving Conversation</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/08/the-new-communicators-evolving-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What started as a group conversation over coffee about the relevance of awards shows, professional organizations, and the establishment turned into a keen interest in organizing a multi-day convergence of events that would help Portland&#8217;s many voices to rise above the fray and be heard. These voices are those of the New Communicators, and they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Portland, just say no to spec work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Portland design community buzz on Twitter is the City of Portland&#8217;s decision to make a design contest out of the Portland Online website. Many of us reviewed the RFP released for project last month and found the budget lacking ($10-20k for a 140,000 page site? Right.), which may explain why they&#8217;re moving forward with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Portland&#039;s Creative Community</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/07/seeking-portlands-creative-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland is a funny city of transplants from around the United States, natives, and transplants who have gone native. While we&#8217;ve all come here for different reasons — the rain isn&#8217;t one of them — I think we&#8217;ve stayed for the same reason: Portland is awesome.
Part of the the awesomeness is that Portland is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pride Parades still matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a fan of parades. For one, I&#8217;m only 5&#8242;2&#8243; and can never see the floats and marching groups from behind that Really Tall Guy Who Always Stands In Front Of Me. Plus I don&#8217;t care for large crowds. But every year I make an exception for the gay pride parade, because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show &amp; Tell PDX: Homebrewing!</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/05/show-tell-pdx-homebrewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I had the excellent opportunity to talk to interactive industry colleagues about something near and dear to my liver heart – homebrewing. I served five kinds of homebrew to warm up the crowd, then dropped an amazing 17 minutes of blabbing about beer on their unwitting ears. People were kind enough to laugh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Followers: Quantity or Quality?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/04/twitter-followers-quantity-or-quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to see who could reach 1 million followers first and won, people are wondering all about Twitter. CNN&#8217;s Quick Poll today shows that only 6% of people are using Twitter (as of April 17), which begs the question &#8220;Who cares?&#8221; So Kutcher got a million followers, so he&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desperately Seeking Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/02/desperately-seeking-sam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I appreciate about Sam Adams, the mayor of Portland, is that he&#8217;s tech-savvy. Like President Obama, he&#8217;s hip to the tools the internet has to offer. He has a Twitter account, a nice little mayoral website, and ran a good election campaign. His use of technology makes him feel accessible, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#039;s it to you?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/11/whats-it-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Listening to music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving the world]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy to describe how it felt when California passed Proposition 8 – banning same-sex marriages – last week. The same happened in Oregon four years ago. We search for words to express how it feels to know that secretly (and openly) 52% of people hate us. We rage and we cry and we [...]]]></description>
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