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POPSChris Penn Does It Again Users of Twitter know how hard it is to keep up with new followers and Christopher S. Penn of The Financial Aid Podcast has written a script that allows you to instantly follow the last batch of people who have sent you an @ reply. Thanks Chris!
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POPSHillary, Dodd Sleep with Defense Lobby
continuing: But now the construction and mercenary firms in Iraq have been reaching out to Democrats. “As Democrats continue to spearhead oversight efforts, defense contractors are swiftly hiring lobbyists with Democratic ties,” writes Lindsay Renick Mayer of the Center for Responsive Politics. To help answer questions about a rash of killings by his employees in Iraq, Erik Prince, the founder and CEO of Blackwater, hired the PR and lobbying firm run by Hillary Clinton’s top campaign strategist, Mark Penn. Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, whose lobbying arm, BKSH, prepped Prince for his testimony. Among the other companies in the metastasizing war profiteering network is the Fluor Group, which testified before Waxman’s committee about its construction contracts in Iraq. Fluor gave Hillary Clinton $5,000 in the 2006 election cycle, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics. As much as the anti-war Left has tried to push Hillary Clinton on her vote
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POPSPodCamp "UnConference" in Boston I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a ton of blogs and participate in several social communities and I have heard so many great things about PodCamp.
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POPSA Virtual Business Card, Brilliant My next post will definitely be my virtual business card. I already am using my Gmail signature as a sort of "virtual" business card where I list all my social networking links and profiles. Now mine will not be nearly as impressive as Christopher S. Penn's VBC. Hah, I am already chopping it down to an acronym. I bet we will see much more formal virtual business cards and resumes. LinkedIn is a sort of virtual business card, but it doesn't allow for us social media freaks to list all of our websites. Who else will create a VBC?