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		<description><![CDATA[Answer Maven has been busy this summer. Duty as Chair of SLA Legal Division complete after the end of the Annual Conference in mid-June Working with a great team on the planning for  the Lucene Revolution User Conference to be held October 7-8, 2010. Finalizing the second custom taxonomy for two different clients Content Management [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=869&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity Leads to Satisfaction: Building a Business On Your Expertise</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I discussed the start of my independent information professional career and the need to be flexible.  In this post I want to talk a bit about building a small business and the parts I enjoy the most about my own business. We all know that marketing and networking are essential parts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=735&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the opportunity to share some cocoa and conversation with a fellow librarian who is working on her MBA.  She asked to interview me for a project she was working on related to Independent Information Professionals. The conversation ranged from how I got started to how I plan to continue building my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=728&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opening Credits:  Small Business Job Creation Bill Introduced</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship has introduced a bill to increase SBA loan limits, decrease fees and provide more government guarantees according to a December 28, Findlaw Free Enterprise post. The House has introduced similar legislation. And according to this Findlaw Free Enterprise post, the Jobs for Main Street Act also includes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=711&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growth Spurts Strain Information Management Processes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many times, companies that grow organically continue to use their information management processes that were in place before their adolescent growth spurt.  Using different buckets for shared content and locking down content is sometimes an obvious answer to information security issues. Sometimes, those lock downs decrease productivity more than secure information.  Collaboration is an important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=662&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women and Minority Owned Business:  The Key to Economic Stimulus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the culmination of a month and some change worth&#8217;s planning and organizing for The Seed 2020 event in Louisville KY at the Muhammad Ali Center.  This event was conceived with the sole purpose of offering women and minority owned businesses a strong voice and networking opportunity to promote themselves and their business [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=652&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Type of Networking for Small Business in Louisville KY</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 4, 2009 at the Muhammad Ali Center a new direction in networking will get underway.  The Seed 2020 is an event being organized to give word to women and minority owned-businesses who don&#8217;t travel in the GLI circle of networks. This is an event organized by myself and my colleague Keisha Mabry and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=642&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Made Dirt and We Start From There</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Grunberg is not the typical Somerset Kentucky businessman. His finesse and style peg him as an outsider, albeit, a welcome outsider to the region. A while back, I sat with Mr. Grunberg during one of his visits to his latest investment endeavor, Somerset Energy Refining. For those of you who don’t recognize the name, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=451&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Source: Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this post for a fuller explanation of the enhancements made to Business.gov. Since I was not a previous user I can&#8217;t contrast the &#8220;improvements.&#8221;  I will say however, that letting the consumer Answer a question seems a good step in narrowing the field for their search. I appreciate the simplicity of the sites organization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&amp;blog=3765988&amp;post=361&amp;subd=answermaven&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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