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		<title>Tips from our writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we asked our freelance writers to share their favorite writing tip from the past year. Here are some of their responses we included in our quarterly newsletter: “I took a first step and ordered the book Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. I know it&#8217;s going to improve my writing someday, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devon Edwards’ Mistake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the ultimate oops, going down in real time. Onward State, a student-run blog about Penn State University, had reported via Twitter on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 that legendary (and recently fired) Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. CBS sports and other news outlets soon picked up the story. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/social-media/devon-edwards%e2%80%99-mistake/</link>
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		<title>SOPA and your business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is abuzz over SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that is currently under consideration in the US House of Representatives (H.R. 3261). (The corresponding Senate bill is PIPA, which is short for the Protect IP Act, which itself is short for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/internet/sopa-and-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Five reasons to add some color to your writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us are still producing printed documents in plain old black and white. Yet, the alternative, color printing is more affordable and available than ever, and at a high quality. There are several benefits to adding color to your documents: 1. Color can provide visual cues that direct the reader’s attention to certain parts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/content/five-reasons-to-add-some-color-to-your-writing/</link>
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		<title>Five Forecasts Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January of 2011, I made five forecasts for last year. Let’s look back and see how accurate my predictions were. E-book sales will equal print book sales by the end of the year. While e-books have made steady inroads into the total sales of book, they aren’t at 50 percent just yet. However, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/2011/five-forecasts-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Trade Press Services in 2011: A Look Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Trade Press Services, we ghost write a lot of articles for management consultants and other professionals who advise companies on how to survive and thrive in a bad economy. So the question is, have we learned anything from all of these pieces, or have we, like so many others, “stuck our heads in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/year-in-review/trade-press-services-in-2011-a-look-back/</link>
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		<title>Corporate lessons from Kim Jong Il&#8217;s death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the passing of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, the world has lost another evil human being in a year that was full of the deaths of evil individuals. (Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi being two of them). Not to make light of Kim Jong Il’s death or the potential for challenges that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/year-in-review/corporate-lessons-from-kim-jong-ils-death/</link>
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		<title>10 Steps to Freelance Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrea Brunais of Virginia Tech’s Faculty Development Institute recently spoke at a gathering of freelance writers and gave them some advice on making it as a freelancer. Bruanis has more than 25 years of news media and public relations experience and is the co-author of a book on media relations titled, I See Your Name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/freelance/10-steps-to-freelance-success/</link>
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		<title>Journalism conventions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not talking about a week in Las Vegas palling around with the news editor from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. I&#8217;m talking about conventions as in ways of doing things. Some journalists are funny about how they write. Mark Twain never followed AP style, or wouldn&#8217;t have had such thing been around in the 19th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.tradepressservices.com/writing/journalism-conventions/</link>
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		<title>When to cut and run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Niles wrote on Nov. 18 in the Online Journalism Review that “It’s okay: you don’t have to use every social media service.” Thank goodness—because there are a lot of them. Wikipedia lists about 200 of the most popular sites, from Facbook to iWiW (it’s big in Hungary) to My Opera (the performance, not the [...]]]></description>
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