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		<title>Respect Yourself</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2013/01/respectyourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TripAdvisor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yelp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Los Angeles Times business column looked at a new company called ReviewerCard that issues IDs to “prolific online reviewers” to presumably help them get better service from hotels and restaurants. According to the snake-oil salesman “entrepreneur” behind this venture, people who “post lots of reviews on websites such as Yelp or TripAdvisor don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Days in Ottawa (or Things I Learned at the IABC 2012 Communicators Summit)</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2013/01/ottawa-iabc-2012-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communicating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators Summit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclosure: I was invited to be part of the planning group for the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators Summit by Yasmin Ranade, its Chair and lead organizer. I had the pleasure of working with Yasmin in the Professional Development portfolio for the IABC Toronto chapter in 2010/11. We work well together and I was honoured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays (War is Over)</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2012/12/happy-holidays-war-is-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merry Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on Christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Facebook feed has been taken over by “War on Christmas” posts. Apparently, some people believe there is a movement afoot by unidentified forces to abolish Christmas. I don’t really understand what this “war” means exactly, but from what I can gather from these missives, Christmas is under attack and the only defense is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The OMG Diet: WTF?</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2012/07/the-omg-diet-wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMG Diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m breaking my self-imposed but entirely unintentional blogging hiatus to comment on this OMG Diet. I will probably start blogging again because as I get older, the more things piss me off. Instead of beleaguering my boyfriend with my rants (and because Twitter only allows for short angry missives), I’ll pour out my rage here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How (not) to get ahead in advertising</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2012/03/how-not-to-get-ahead-in-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communicating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belvedere Vodka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WTF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while you get a brand that wants to stand out, and that means being “edgy”, “bold” or “daring”. But in the pursuit of style over substance, some things can go wrong. Horribly wrong. Case in point: If it’s not obvious to you, the subtext of the ad is that Belvedere Vodka goes down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moveable Feast</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/10/a-moveable-feast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arc de Triomphe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musee d'Orsay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notre-Dame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Printemps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Louvre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. — Ernest Hemingway Ah, Paris. I’ve waited 42 years to finally see the City of Lights. And I fell in love, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banalogy</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/10/banalogy/</link>
		<comments>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/10/banalogy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad analogies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Depp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misuse of words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid celebrity sayings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ba·nal: / beyn–nahl  / adjective 1. devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite a·nal·o·gy: /uh–nal–uh-jee / noun 1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based 2. similarity or comparability banalogy: / beyn–nal–uh-jee / noun 1. A hackneyed and stupid comparison made between two things that bear absolutely no similarity or comparability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email From a Guy: And/Or Edition</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/08/email-from-a-guy-andor-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/08/email-from-a-guy-andor-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This lovely email was sent to a friend of mine on OKStupid. As she put it: Can one be cute and magnificent at the same time? I say, yes, just like this email can be stupid and nauseating at the same time. whats up baby,beautification is an understatement but the word pretty and cute are the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When We Were Young: Suddenly Last Summer</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/07/when-we-were-young-suddenly-last-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/07/when-we-were-young-suddenly-last-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reminiscing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dr. demento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing up in the eighties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wonderland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland Caught in your superficial non-existent fairy story - Wonderland, XTC These are my last journal entries from the ninth grade. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I did. Stay tuned for September when I post my journal entries from the tenth grade. June 1/83 I am going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When We Were Young: My Ever Changing Moods</title>
		<link>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/07/when-we-were-young-my-ever-changing-moods/</link>
		<comments>http://bonniedean.ca/2011/07/when-we-were-young-my-ever-changing-moods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reminiscing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growing up in the eighties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tosses her head ‘n flips her hair She got a whole bunch of nothin in there - Valley Girl, Frank Zappa There are references to “Banananose Joe”. That would be the then-principal of our school who would consistently tell us we’d be moving into our brand new building and then push the date. We called him Banananose because his nose [...]]]></description>
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