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	<title>Adi Gaskell: Writer, Blogger, Community Manager</title>
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		<title>Is 10,000 hours really all you need to perfect something?</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/22/is-10000-hours-really-all-you-need-to-perfect-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noted Nazi propogandaist Joseph Goebbels famously said that if you repeat a lie often enough, sooner or later people will come to regard it as the truth.  Whilst obviously not on the scale of some of the things Goebbels trotted out, the idea that to achieve expertise in something has become pretty much accepted since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York failure on Air BnB</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/22/new-york-failure-on-air-bnb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharing economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, the character Mr Bumble is informed that &#8220;the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction&#8221;.  It solicits the classic response &#8220;If the law supposes that &#8230; the law is a ass—a idiot. If that&#8217;s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studies reveal the benefits of &#8216;pro-social&#8217; benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/22/studies-reveal-the-benefits-of-pro-social-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosocial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month I wrote about a new service called Bonus.ly.  The idea behind the site is quite simple.  Each month employees are allocated a budget, be it financial or otherwise, that they can then allocate to their colleagues according to who they feel has performed well.  The idea is that peers will be much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to achieve social business success by IBM</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/21/how-to-achieve-social-business-success-by-ibm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/21/how-to-achieve-social-business-success-by-ibm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enterprise 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social business has massive potential to change how your organisation operates.  As with many social based work however, the failure rate remains unduly high.  IBM have released a new report that aims to change that by sharing some of the things that the best organisations do. The document is concise at only 12 pages, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rise and rise of civic crowdfunding</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/20/the-rise-and-rise-of-civic-crowdfunding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/20/the-rise-and-rise-of-civic-crowdfunding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic crowdfunding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdfunding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about a novel project being run in Bogota, Columbia that is attempting to crowdsource the funding of a new skyscraper.  The Prodigy Network, who are running the scheme, offer crowdfunding opportunities for a whole host of retail projects around the world.  It&#8217;s the tip of an ever growing iceburg. We&#8217;ve all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much is an engaged social customer worth?</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/20/how-much-is-an-engaged-social-customer-worth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/20/how-much-is-an-engaged-social-customer-worth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year an employee was sued for taking the Twitter followers he&#8217;d amassed with him when he left his company.  The case focused attention on just how much a Twitter follower was worth.  Suffice to say that since then, a good deal of effort has gone into highlighting just how many followers are fakes.  So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does location matter on Twitter?</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/19/does-location-matter-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/19/does-location-matter-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[location]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I shared research that can predict the movements of people within a disaster area by analysing their mobile phone usage in the months prior to the disaster.  Such uses for big data are becoming commonplace.  Google Flu Trends has largely been a success, albeit with a well publicised mishap during the latest American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are social media users better citizens?</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/17/are-social-media-users-better-citizens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/17/are-social-media-users-better-citizens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political activism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The role of social media in civic engagement has been a hot topic ever since the Arab Spring brought the role it can play to the attention of the world.  Earlier this year the Pew Research Center produced a report into how social media impacts civic engagement. It found that 40% of adults used social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Tech offer degree ala MOOC</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/16/georgia-tech-offer-degree-ala-mooc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/16/georgia-tech-offer-degree-ala-mooc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mooc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online learning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=3092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past year you&#8217;ll have no doubt come across MOOCs.  Sites like Coursera, edX and Udacity have made huge waves by providing a platform for some of the finest universities in the world to offer courses online for free. They&#8217;ve proved hugely popular, with many courses attracting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The eHarmony school of recruitment</title>
		<link>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/16/the-eharmony-school-of-recruitment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/05/16/the-eharmony-school-of-recruitment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The world of the web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aptitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a dating brand eHarmony are one of the best.  Whilst others seem to take the shotgun approach to matching you up with a dream partner, eHarmony have been using their semantic algorithms to provide smarter matches for over a decade now. So it kinda makes sense that they&#8217;d be applying that same matching technology [...]]]></description>
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