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		<title>Making Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week has been a wonderful, unusual journey for me. I was fortunate to share the experience of the Lift Off Retreat with a group of incredible people. Far more than your average business workshop, it was an opportunity to delve into the heart and soul of our businesses and forge strong bonds with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Smoothies: Mixed-for-you Semi-custom WordPress Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m super excited to announce* the launch of my new service called Smoothies:  Mixed-for-you Semi-custom WordPress Websites.
*Yes, you may notice this announcement is a little late out of the gate. I had it mostly written, then I was in mourning for a while so my excitement about everything went on holiday without me. Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/introducing-smoothies-mixed-for-you-semi-custom-wordpress-websites/</link>
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		<title>Simple Truths of Life, Drawing and Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday nights I go to Life Drawing in a quaint little town hall in Grantham&#8217;s Landing. (Yes, folks, I do live in the boonies, and love it!). It&#8217;s a welcome change from focusing on all the little details that go into making websites. At the same time, my brain likes to noodle things other than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/simple-truths-of-life-drawing-and-business/</link>
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		<title>Day Two of SXSW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, what a day. I wouldn&#8217;t be blogging about it now except my brain is so busy recapping it won&#8217;t turn off and go to sleep. So I might as well recap for an audience, right?
I went to one good session today, by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational. I think I&#8217;d rush through and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/day-two-of-sxsw/</link>
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		<title>Day one of my first SXSW Interactive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Austin TX this weekend for SXSW Interactive: part of an annual mega conference for the web, film, and music industries.
The first session I attended was &#8220;We F*cked Up&#8221;, with a panel of web consultants discussing failure: recoverable and unrecoverable failures they&#8217;ve had, their definitions of failure, etc. Points that stuck with me:

We need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/day-one-of-my-first-sxsw-interactive/</link>
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		<title>Two heads really are better than one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while now I&#8217;ve been designing a package for semi-custom WordPress websites (I promise it has a more exciting name than that, but it&#8217;s still hatching!). And when I say &#8220;designing&#8221;, I mean doing bits of research, brainstorming, coding, and photoshop-ing in between my regular client projects. Suffice to say it&#8217;s been slow and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/two-heads-really-are-better-than-one/</link>
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		<title>Nobody cares about your website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be a funny thing for a web designer to say, but it&#8217;s largely true. Most people don&#8217;t come to most websites to see how great a logo is, or the fonts and colours used. To see the latest, greatest animation or graphical treatment.

They come to see what you&#8217;ve got for them. What problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/nobody-cares-about-your-website/</link>
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		<title>Switching off to switch on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no doubt that we live in information-saturated times. Publishing tools have been embraced by the masses to the point that you can keep tabs on where uber-connected, far-off friends are having lunch. You can instantly tap into the history of just about anything, from 70s TV shows to obscure dog breeds.
In addition to all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/switching-off-to-switch-on/</link>
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		<title>Ways to get a Website in a hurry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I got an email from a friend asking if I could help his brother out. The brother in question had a request from a publishing company to see his website, as they might want him to illustrate a book. Awesome, right? Yeah, except the brother doesn&#8217;t have a website.
Now it being a Friday night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thrivewire.ca/blog/ways-to-get-a-website-in-a-hurry/</link>
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		<title>Who uses WordPress?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aside: I wanted to call this post &#8220;If NASA is using WordPress, does that make it Rocket Science?&#8221;, but the logical, user-friendly, SEO-loving part of my brain won out over the funny part. Sorry about that.
I discovered tonight (via @raanan) that NASA is not only using WordPress, but using it so much they have created [...]]]></description>
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