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		<title>New Facebook Connectivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying out some new ways of integrating this blog into Facebook, and particularly to my Facebook page, to which you&#8217;ll also find a link in the sidebar. Once this is working smoothly, it will be a value-added service I can offer my website clients. One kind of integration available is that you can use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewards for Technology Horror Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Contest for 2010 I&#8217;m offering prizes and rewards for the best business technology horror stories. Did you buy an off-the-shelf software application for your business that didn&#8217;t do precisely what you expected and ended up costing you time and money? Did you pay for a technology project (like a website, custom software, network server), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Not Your Company&#8217;s Computer Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were watching Saturday Night Live during the 1990s, you remember Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s hilarious sketches as &#8220;Nick Burns, Your Company&#8217;s Computer Guy.&#8221; If you weren&#8217;t watching or if you&#8217;d like a refresher, scroll down to where I&#8217;ve embedded an example from YouTube. Nick Burns was the help desk guy from hell. He could help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free online consultations!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a limited time, to help launch my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Diamond-Consulting/323657584876">new interactive company page</a> on Facebook, I'm offering <strong>free online consultations</strong> to anyone who joins my page as a fan. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Business Automation Projects Fail, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part 1 of this series I wrote about a simple case where failure to define requirements for a software purchase ended up costing the business several thousands of dollars worth of wasted effort that had to be re-done. The software purchase price was just a few hundred dollars, so it seemed okay to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Speaks on How To Avoid Technology Traps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently appeared on Nancy Brown&#8217;s Business Guru Show on Blog Talk Radio to speak about &#8220;How To Avoid Technology Traps.&#8221; You can hear the show (30 minutes) by following the link or you can play it right here: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fstevediamondconsulting.com%2Fblog%2Frequirements-analysis%2Fhow-to-avoid-technology-traps.html'; addthis_title = 'Steve+Speaks+on+How+To+Avoid+Technology+Traps'; addthis_pub = 'solarcat';]]></description>
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		<title>How Business Automation Projects Fail, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting a short series in How Business Automation Projects Fail. This is part 1, where I&#8217;ll cover the case of an apparently simple project to install a common software package. In part 2 I write about a much more complex and expensive project. Business Processes Businesses run by following well defined processes. Let&#8217;s look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Hiding From Your Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find that many small-to-medium local businesses are hiding from their customers and don&#8217;t realize it. They still market to new customers in newspapers and the Yellow Pages, and they still stay in touch with existing customers (if they do) by direct mail. But those traditional marketing channels are increasingly empty. That&#8217;s not where you [...]]]></description>
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