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		<title>GM’s Michael Savoni on Why You Need a Customer Service Twitter Handle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communities have changed a lot in the past few years, having manifested online in ways no one could have previously imagined. Still, some things have stayed the same. Social networks allow people to broadcast their views much the way they do in person, but often with much greater reach. Much of the time those opinions [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1235&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Pricey, Exclusive Gym That’s Keeping Out Those Who Can’t Weigh In</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 23:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk past most gyms in Chicago, and you’re liable to get into a staring match. Wide windows frame hard bodies galloping on treadmills in a constant advertisement to passersby. Walk past Downsize Fitness in the West Loop, however, and you won’t see much. The windows are frosted, and low-resistance treadmills face a wall with few [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1232&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Effort, Unity and Strength: AdYapper to Join TechStars NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You don&#8217;t just submit an application and hope for the best. It needs to be an all out, multi-pronged and sustained assault,” says Eliot Hirsch, AdYapper’s CEO and one of its three co-founders. He and his team found out this week that they’d been accepted to TechStars NYC’s 2013 class and Hirsch insists it wasn’t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1227&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Def Jam Co-Founder Russell Simmons Talks Partnerships And Leveraging His Successes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before “disruption” became a Silicon Valley buzzword, Russell Simmons, 55, was upending paradigms left and right. His Def Jam record label introduced hip-hop to a broader audience, while his Phat Farm clothing line blurred the line between urban and prep. They also made Simmons a wealthy man. Forbes reckons he’s worth about $325 million. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1221&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Russell Simmons at Digitas xCulture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Digitas Chicago decided to take its cross-cultural marketing efforts to the next level. They had a vision for equipping employees to deal with a changing multicultural marketplace. It was they who introduced the Digitas xCulture platform last spring, leading to similar programs that launched in New York City and Boston in the fall.

Digitas xCulture frequently hosts speakers ranging from researchers and industry professionals to public figures such as Olympic athletes and singers. To celebrate its first anniversary, hip hop mogul and uber-successful entrepreneur Russell Simmons took the stage with Tricia Clarke-Stone, co-President at GlobalGrind.com, to speak with employees about his experience working with diverse audiences on March 27.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1214&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Stock Mfg. Co. Do For Clothes What Farmers Markets Did For Produce?</title>
		<link>http://aminaelahi.com/2013/03/28/can-stock-mfg-co-do-for-clothes-what-farmers-markets-did-for-produce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, the only garments to come out of the 19,000-square-foot military-clothing factory at the corner of Lake and Pulaski in Garfield Park were sewn in muted shades of olive drab, gunmetal gray and navy blue. But in July, there came a whole different look: piles of brightly colored shirts, pocket squares and ties meant for Bucktown hipsters, not Pentagon bureaucrats.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1211&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Illinois Companies Make Top Work-Life Balance List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work to live, or live to work? The former is a broadly-acknowledged philosophy at 25 American companies that rank highest for their emphasis on work-life balance. Glassdoor.com, an online career community, culled employee feedback from the past year to identify those companies that prioritized their workers’ needs nearly as much as the organization’s. Five Illinois-based [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1193&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DealsGoRound Grows Up, Rebrands as MyCabbage and Raises $950K</title>
		<link>http://aminaelahi.com/2012/08/23/dealsgoround-grows-up-rebrands-as-mycabbage-and-raises-950k/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many deals and no way to keep up? Have no fear, MyCabbage is here. What started as a service project in CEO Kris Petersen’s kitchen two years ago has grown into a full blown deals marketplace, complete with social capabilities. What’s more, the company formerly known as DealsGoRound relaunched today after raising $950,000 from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1188&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BrightTag Sets Its Sights on Europe with SiteTagger Acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina Elahi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many would agree that BrightTag is a company that has, pardon the pun, an illuminated future. In June, it was named Startup of the Year at the Moxie Awards. Today, CEO Mike Sands announced BrightTag’s acquisition of a UK-based competitor named SiteTagger. Together, the two companies combined to be the global leader in tag management services (TMS), [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1185&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspired Recipe: Chicken Mandu Dumplings and a Trio of Dipping Sauces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a mother if not the heart and soul of a family? She is a nourisher, a provider, a caretaker, a comforter. Her family turns to her for love and support. In Please Look After Mom, the titular character is a source of comfort, an anchor for her family, strong on the outside but full [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aminaelahi.com&#038;blog=25788059&#038;post=1182&#038;subd=aminaelahi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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