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	<title>Justin Kownacki &#187; Pittsburgh</title>
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		<title>12 Things I&#8217;m Thinking After PodCamp Pittsburgh 6</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2011/09/19/12-things-im-thinking-after-podcamp-pittsburgh-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, make it 13. Because number 13 is, &#8220;when you try to edit a WordPress photo caption after you publish your post, you break your blog.&#8221; So, the original post is gone. Whoops. I&#8217;d rewrite the whole thing, but we all have lives, so here are the salient points I think I made the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How My Broken Blog Led to Me Getting Interviewed on the CBC</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2011/07/28/how-my-broken-blog-led-to-me-getting-interviewed-on-the-cbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, my blog imploded.  For whatever reason, my backups weren&#8217;t actually backing up, and one day I awoke to a tweet from a reader informing me that none of my posts existed anymore. That&#8217;s never good. So I contacted my tech guy, Shawn Smith, who&#8217;s been saving my digital ass since 2003 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Values Social Media Should Borrow from Art School</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2011/05/24/5-values-social-media-should-borrow-from-art-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2011/05/24/5-values-social-media-should-borrow-from-art-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned yesterday, I don&#8217;t have a marketing background.  I went to art school.  (Although, given the bad rap EDMC &#8212; which bought and gutted everything I loved about The Art Institute of Pittsburgh over the years &#8212; has been getting regarding their own business practices, whether or not AIP still qualifies as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tips for Funding a Successful Kickstarter Project</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/09/27/10-tips-for-funding-a-successful-kickstarter-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/09/27/10-tips-for-funding-a-successful-kickstarter-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.justinkownacki.com/?p=2875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Due to the high volume of traffic that this post always receives, I&#8217;ve launched a new blog called CrowdFunding Help, which provides tips, news, interviews and how-tos for Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and more. Check it out! Last month, I created a Kickstarter project to help raise the initial funding for my new creative project, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of the Very First PodCamp (or, See How Far Social Media Has Come?)</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/09/23/the-story-of-the-very-first-podcamp-or-see-how-far-social-media-has-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/09/23/the-story-of-the-very-first-podcamp-or-see-how-far-social-media-has-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armchair Sociology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As PodCamp Boston 5 gears up this weekend, I thought I&#8217;d look back in time a few years &#8212; specifically, back to September of 2006, when a few geeks from Boston changed the way we use computers. That summer, a no-name blogger named Chris Brogan had become friends with some of Boston&#8217;s social media crowd.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baristas: How I&#8217;m Using Kickstarter to Fund My Next Creative Project</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/08/20/the-baristas-how-im-using-kickstarter-to-fund-my-next-creative-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/08/20/the-baristas-how-im-using-kickstarter-to-fund-my-next-creative-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fond of finding ways to fund projects that don&#8217;t involve traditional investors or advertisers.  One of those avenues is Kickstarter, a crowdfunding resource for creative endeavors.  It lets a project&#8217;s audience become its investors. So I thought I&#8217;d give it a try. The Backstory In 2003, I created Something to Be Desired, a web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Running a Profitable Coffee Shop</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/08/11/tips-for-running-a-profitable-coffee-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/08/11/tips-for-running-a-profitable-coffee-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This is a sequel to my post 10 Tips for Running a Successful Coffee Shop. ALSO: To learn how NOT to run a cafe, watch my web series, The Baristas. Last year, I blogged my own 2 cents about How to Run a Successful Coffee Shop, based on my experiences as a regular patron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Business Lessons I Learned from My First (Real) Job</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/03/09/10-business-lessons-i-learned-from-my-first-real-job/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/03/09/10-business-lessons-i-learned-from-my-first-real-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 years ago this month, I landed my first post-college job that didn&#8217;t involve retail. In March of 2000, a Pittsburgh company called Multimedia Training Systems (which is still in business as I type this) was looking to hire someone who had experience with video production and animation.  As the lone graduate from The Art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tips for Making Better Content Without Going Broke or Insane</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/02/24/10-tips-for-making-better-content-without-going-broke-or-insane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/02/24/10-tips-for-making-better-content-without-going-broke-or-insane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I made a living in social marketing, I made social media.  (Yes, there&#8217;s a difference.) In 2003, I launched Something to Be Desired (or STBD), a creative outlet that eventually became the web&#8217;s longest-running sitcom.  The series remained active until 2009 when I moved to Baltimore and the cast remained in Pittsburgh. Despite its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are You So Afraid Of?</title>
		<link>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/02/08/what-are-you-so-afraid-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinkownacki.com/2010/02/08/what-are-you-so-afraid-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard, the Mid-Atlantic US (in which I currently live) got hammered by a massive snowstorm this weekend.  Weather reports had been sensationalizing the potentially apocalyptic effects of the storm for days, warning that we could see a record snowfall and complete paralysis of city functions.  And if you doubt that people [...]]]></description>
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