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		<title>Happy Oaks &amp; Derby Day from the Developware Team!</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Punch in, punch out, Maverick.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend much of my work life speaking with the managers and principals of advertising and creative services firms. Each agency faces unique workflow challenges, but one of the most common ones cited is the sporadic submission of employee time sheets. An agency&#8217;s inventory is the amount of time employees spend on projects &#8212; it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication on the Rocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Developware, we live and work in close proximity to Bourbon country &#8212; Kentucky. Bourbon whiskey can be consumed in many different ways. It&#8217;s the featured ingredient in Mint Juleps, the official drink of a popular horserace which takes place just minutes from our offices; you&#8217;ve probably heard of it. I prefer to order my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of a Traffic System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The goal of any Traffic Department, whether within an advertising agency, design firm or public relations organization, is to increase efficiency and profitability. This can only be accomplished through the reduction and ultimate elimination of false starts, inappropriate job initiation, incomplete information sharing, over- and under-cost estimation, and the need for deadline extensions. The core [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://developware.com/blog/traffic/the-importance-of-a-traffic-system/</link>
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		<title>Feelin&#8217; the love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you given your Traffic Manager a hug today? Perhaps you should. Without an effective traffic management infrastructure in place &#8212;  both systems and personnel &#8212; how would projects make it through your agency? Balancing the opposing needs and desires between agency departments is a delicate, but necessary, task. Traffic managers are the fulcrum of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wunderlist is “Wunderful.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m an organized person. [For those who know me well, that’s an understatement if ever there were one.] For some time, I searched for the perfect “to do list” app for my iPhone. I wanted a clean, easy-to-use app that could be updated via my desktop and sync’d to both my iPhone and iPad. I’d nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a dog person.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cat person&#8230; A turtle person&#8230; A… well, you get the point. I love creatures of all shapes and sizes. This afternoon, I have the pleasure of dog-sitting my best friend’s cocker spaniel/dachshund mix, Peyton, for a few hours. She’s been sniffing around the office, checking everything out. She’s even stretched out on my guest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://developware.com/blog/motivation/im-a-dog-person/</link>
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		<title>Skip Intro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I visit websites &#8212; lots of websites &#8212; many of them belonging to ad agencies. I&#8217;ve found that browsing an agency&#8217;s website can tell me a lot about the company &#8212; How big are they? who are their clients? do they specialize in a particular vertical? Many agencies will put their employees on display in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“What’s my motivation?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I scared the you-know-what out of my co-worker. While finalizing the 2012 budget for our company, I mistakenly quoted his salary as being considerably lower than what he’s currently being paid. After sedating him (kidding), I began thinking about what motivates me as a, “traffic person.” Is it fame? In my 10+ years of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://developware.com/blog/motivation/%e2%80%9cwhat%e2%80%99s-my-motivation%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s the Power of CRM.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got off the phone with a prospective client. He told me to call him back &#8220;after the new year,&#8221; a common response for this time of year. Now what? How should I remind myself to get back to him? I could set up an event in iCal to remind myself to call him. [...]]]></description>
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