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		<title>Interesting Reads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got things I need to write about, and can&#8217;t quite find the time. In the meantime, here are some interesting reads from elsewhere: 7 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Without Releasing a Sex Tape Nicely sensationalist headline notwithstanding, I think most of us &#8211; techies or otherwise &#8211; could use some work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PachyForge / Pachyderm 2.1.01c Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never really thought it would happen, but it has! Pachyderm 2.1 has been released! We&#8217;ve talked about Pachyderm before, along with other options. If the iPad (and its abhorrence of flash) take over completely, Pachyderm may quickly become an irrelevant option. On the other hand, I wonder if there&#8217;s any possibility it may one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/pachyderm-2-1-release/</link>
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		<title>The Most Unfriendly Auto-response Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been sending out some emails on behalf of our state museum association, and just received the following auto-response (names have been removed to protect the unknowingly guilty): If you have gotten this message you have  emailed  *******. (Or your virus affected computer may have&#8230; if so get a good service tech) (Also if your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/the-most-unfriendly-auto-response-ever/</link>
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		<title>The Perils of Being Tech Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Why It&#8217;s Better to Pretend You Don&#8217;t Know Anything About Computers. Click over to The Oatmeal for the full series. &#60;Trying to decide if my boss would think it funny if I forwarded it to her.&#62;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/the-perils-of-being-tech-support/</link>
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		<title>Updates on Online Exhibits, Collections Management Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Awhile back, I posted about ways to create online exhibits.  There are some new entries, and I have some additional comments, so it&#8217;s time for an update. One new option is Open Museum. Right now, curating exhibits there is free, although that should change when they reach their beta phase.  (See the business faq.)  In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/updates-on-online-exhibits-collections-management-software/</link>
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		<title>What Not to Retweet and Other Thoughts From the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Not to Retweet A local children&#8217;s museum is using a service like Auto Retweet (or something similar) to automatically retweet just about everything posted to Twitter by anyone involving the words &#8220;children&#8221; and &#8220;museum.&#8221; Never mind the fact that most of these tweets are completely inane and totally irrelevant to the retweeting museum in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/what-not-to-retweet/</link>
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		<title>14 Website Sins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These all come from actual museum websites I&#8217;ve been browsing this morning: Music that plays automatically.  Double-plus negative points for being horribly twangy. Navigational buttons that are in flash only.  Plus 1 for having text links of the same at the bottom, minus 1 for not repeating them on subsequent pages, minus 1 for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/14-website-sins/</link>
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		<title>Build an Online Museum Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One easy way to build an online store simply uses Paypal or Google Checkout, and a table you create yourself with all of your merchandise. This method, of course, is not much fun.  It&#8217;s labor intensive, and you do have to be well versed in HTML to make it happen (or else cozy with your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/build-an-online-museum-store/</link>
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		<title>Sell Memberships, Collect Donations Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giving potential donors and visitors the opportunity to contribute, buy a membership, or buy event tickets online is something that is simple to implement, if you know.  Adding an online store is not much more difficult, although it does require some extra thought. Online payment options are something seemingly foreign to most small museums.  If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/sell-memberships-collect-donations-online/</link>
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		<title>Add a Calendar to Your NonProfit Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that a calendar is a must for the website of any group who has events, but how does one accomplish such a project? If you&#8217;re coding the website yourself in HTML or some-such, a simple list of events is pretty easy. If you have a lot of events, this can get tedious pretty [...]]]></description>
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