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	<title>The Purposeful Techie</title>
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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;
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		<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 the [...]]]></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 particular [...]]]></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 flash not [...]]]></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 editor).  [...]]]></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 you [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/nonprofit-website-calendar/</link>
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		<title>Why are You Still Using Internet Explorer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than useful information, this is simply me venting my confusion, and hoping someone has answers.
Why are people still using Internet Explorer?
Firefox has been around for quite awhile now, and seems to be gaining a lot of acceptance.  Google has also launched their own browser (I don&#8217;t see the need, but okay), and there are, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/why-use-internet-explorer/</link>
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		<title>Requesting info?  Ask nicely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are going to be implementing any type of form on your organization&#8217;s website where you&#8217;ll be asking for information, remember to ask nicely.  Most people know why you want/need the information you&#8217;re requesting. 
Creating such forms is rather easy (especially if you&#8217;re using a CMS &#8212; the Webform module for Drupal, particularly can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/ask-nicely/</link>
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		<title>Online Exhibits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit beyond basic, but I came across a great article on open source software from the NAME Journal, and couldn&#8217;t resist adding my two cents:
If you&#8217;re hoping to build an online exhibit, there are two stand-by methods for doing this:  coding the thing in HTML as you would anything else on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purposefultechie.com/online-exhibits/</link>
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