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		<title>Too Connected For Our Own Good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<title>5 Reasons Your Not-for-Profit Marketing May Be Failing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Polak]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketing of not-for-profit causes and organisations is the challenge of a lifetime. Many people expect that, because they&#8217;re promoting something incredibly worthwhile and rewarding, they simply need to get the message out and tens of thousands of supporters will materialise overnight. But as anybody who&#8217;s actually tried it can attest, that&#8217;s very rarely the case. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=422&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the NBN Should be Costed in Rupees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gillard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE in eight Australians will be able to work from home by 2020 under an ambitious blueprint for the National Broadband Network that predicts it will save the typical family $148 a week. At least, that&#8217;s what yesterday&#8217;s Herald Sun declared. For those not yet familiar with the currency exchange rate, that&#8217;s savings of about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=402&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are your ideas &#8216;good&#8217; or &#8216;bad&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://aktivtactics.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/good-or-bad-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 22:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently re-reading another great book from Edward de Bono, &#8220;New Thinking for the New Millennium&#8221;, which was published in 1999 and is clearly as just as applicable today as it was 12 years ago. Human nature being what it is, we have a tendency to get lazy in our thinking and, for expediency, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=378&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Office space @ $50/per week for freelance IT person</title>
		<link>http://aktivtactics.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/office-space-forfreelance-it-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Exchange Server]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.aktiv.com.au/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read right &#8211; if you&#8217;re a freelance IT guru and would like a desk space in our modern, light, cheery office located in Nunawading, we&#8217;re offering a desk for only $50+GST per week. You&#8217;ll have your own dedicated desk, all utility bills covered, use of our VoIP phone system, broadband internet, and of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=390&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much of a Good Thing?</title>
		<link>http://aktivtactics.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/too-much-of-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 22:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.aktiv.com.au/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been inadvertently seduced into the &#8216;we need more of this good thing&#8217; mindset? Whether in marketing, business more broadly, family life, friendships, or business, corporate, and national finances, it&#8217;s common place (and entirely natural) for us to think that if something is &#8216;good&#8217; and it&#8217;s been beneficial for us thus far, then we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=371&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should we have a Facebook page for our business?</title>
		<link>http://aktivtactics.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/should-we-have-a-facebook-page-for-our-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The owner of a groovy café near our office asked me this week whether it&#8217;s possible to delete posts on a Facebook page. I explained that it is, and then he went on to explain that this was a significant consideration for him in deciding whether or not to set up a Facebook page for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=387&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Computer glitch leads to supermarket free-for-all</title>
		<link>http://aktivtactics.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/computer-glitch-leads-to-supermarket-free-for-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarket owner Glenn Miller is feeling a bit foolish at the moment. His Pak &#8216;N Save supermarket in Hamilton, NZ, unlocked itself at 8am on Good Friday with not a staff member in sight! I found this news report to be a fascinating case study in human nature. But whilst chuckling from a safe distance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=385&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designing a Way Forward</title>
		<link>http://aktivtactics.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/designing-a-way-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brookes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain and our society are programmed to build upon our pre-established building blocks. This is very helpful, because we don&#8217;t have time to reinvent the wheel for every action or task we&#8217;re required to undertake. But it also means we tend not to think creatively and look at the bigger picture. We map [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aktivtactics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8892715&amp;post=366&amp;subd=aktivtactics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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