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	<itunes:subtitle>Musical Podcast Normally 20min in length with about 3 songs an episode.</itunes:subtitle>
	<itunes:summary>The Alex W Hughes.com Podcast a place where major label artists and grassroots music lives in harmony.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Episode 10: Anti Folk Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a while but im back with episode 10. I never though i would get so much interest in this podcast. Enjoy this one Track List Broken &#8211; Chris Daughtry Winter- Tori Amos Smells Like Teen Spirit- Tori Amos When She Loved Me- Sarah McLachlan Superman- Five for Fighting Podcast Alley feed! {pca-591fe17fa8804fa3de967b591c812584}]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its been a while but im back with episode 10. I never though i would get so much interest in this podcast.</p>
<p>Enjoy this one</p>
<p><strong>Track List</strong><br />
<em>Broken &#8211; Chris Daughtry<br />
Winter- Tori Amos<br />
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Tori Amos<br />
When She Loved Me- Sarah McLachlan<br />
Superman- Five for Fighting </em></p>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Its been a while but im back with episode 10. I never though i would get so much interest in this podcast.

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		<itunes:summary>Its been a while but im back with episode 10. I never though i would get so much interest in this podcast.

Enjoy this one

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Broken - Chris Daughtry
Winter- Tori Amos
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Tori Amos
When She Loved Me- Sarah McLachlan
Superman- Five for Fighting 

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		<title>Starbucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had my first starbucks experience today and I can&#8217;t say I enjoyed it. I ordered a venti latte which is about 500mls of &#8220;coffee&#8221; I say coffee in &#8220;&#8216;s as it tasted awful compared to say Hudsons or Gosh coffee. But I have worked out a way to fix the problem. A simple maths equation <a href="http://alexwhughes.com/starbucks/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Had my first starbucks experience today and I can&#8217;t say I enjoyed it. I ordered a venti latte which is about 500mls of &#8220;coffee&#8221; I say coffee in &#8220;&#8216;s as it tasted awful compared to say Hudsons or Gosh coffee. But I have worked out a way to fix the problem. A simple maths equation known as 6 to 1. So if you want nice coffee add 6 sugars to one venti sizes coffee! </p>
<p>Hope I&#8217;ve been helpful <img src='http://alexwhughes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>How to Deal with Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a lot of people have been asking me how they can improve their twitter follower count and become more of a community player in the twitter scene. Sadly the there is no perfect answer as some guides i&#8217;ve read make you believe, But there are some simple steps you can take to curve and <a href="http://alexwhughes.com/how-to-deal-with-twitter/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently a lot of people have been asking me how they can improve their twitter follower count and become more of a community player in the twitter scene. Sadly the there is no perfect answer as some guides i&#8217;ve read make you believe, But there are some simple steps you can take to curve and prevent follower loss.</p>
<p>Firstly let me tell you that twitter followers are a fickle bunch, there are some people out there who just want a high follower count and they may try to follow you and the moment you follow they back they unfollow you. As bad as that is there are steps to combat that and i will cover them a bit later in this guide.</p>
<p><strong>What Not to Do With Twitter (</strong>Or, if you want to keep followers never do this)</p>
<ul>
<li>Twitter has earnt the reputation of having a userbase that &#8220;tweets&#8221; about everything from waking up to well&#8230;bowel movements. Always try to remember that people do care what your doing but you really need to make sure its interesting.</li>
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<p><em>An example of a good tweet would be:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>Just ordered my iMac <img src='http://alexwhughes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  It should be arriving before the 23rd</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Which engages your audience and normally leads to responces asking about the specs.</em></p>
<p><em>An example of a bad tweet would be:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>Leaving Taco Bell Now&#8230;.i&#8217;ll tweet again when im in the carpark</p></blockquote>
<p><em>No one cares about that fact you went from taco bell to the carpark, except your mother&#8230;.and she&#8217;s not going to be reading your tweets.</em></p>
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<li>Apart from tweeting too much (which is the biggest mistake you can make) the other mistake people seem to make is follower whoring, which basically breaks down to seeking out every single person on twitter you can find to try and raise your twitter follower account. <em>which is fine if you take an interest in what they say, but if you unfollow them the moment they follow you its just bad karma.</em></li>
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<p><em>Which brings me onto one of my favorite sites for dealing with rogue unfollowers&#8230;</em></p>
<p>There is a site out there called <a href="http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter Karma</strong></a>, and i advise everyone to use its &#8220;<em>show only followers&#8221; </em>and &#8220;<em>bulk unfollow&#8221;</em> features. So Basically here is what i do every month..in dot points (<em>so its easy to follow) </em></p>
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<li><em>Login to <a href="http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/">Twitter Karma</a></em></li>
<li><em>Click show &#8220;only following&#8221; (</em>which will display people that your only following, that aren&#8217;t following you back)</li>
<li><em>Go through the list ticking the boxes of people who don&#8217;t follow you back (</em>i follow people like arjbarker and adam savage and don&#8217;t expect to get followed back so don&#8217;t just unfollow everyone who isn&#8217;t following you)</li>
<li><em>click the &#8220;bulk unfollow&#8221; button<br />
</em></li>
<li><em>Sit back and feel a little less worried. <img src='http://alexwhughes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></li>
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<p>Another service i use is called &#8220;<em>auto follow&#8221; </em>which strikes fear into a lot of people as they feel it is an impersonal way to manage your followers but i feel its ok as long as you police it.</p>
<p><em>Since so many people hate services like this i won&#8217;t list any recommended services, but if your interested google is your friend. But i am happy to offer a do&#8217;s and don&#8217;t on autofollow services</em></p>
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<li>NEVER setup an an automatic direct message to every new follower, if anything is going to kill off your follower count that is&#8230;<em>i get about 15 of those stupid things everyday and i hate them with a passion (and i know im not alone)</em></li>
<li>You don&#8217;t have to welcome every single new follower you get, the best way of telling someone how happy you are is interacting with them on their tweets (which i will cover shortly)</li>
<li>About every month after i&#8217;ve run the bulk unfollow service i select &#8220;<em>people who only follow me&#8221; </em>and i make sure that i follow all of those people who the system may have missed so how.</li>
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<p><em>if you follow those steps and remember that no matter what you do, your always going to have more people that your following than are following you your going to be fine</em></p>
<p>My final point well help you gain followers</p>
<p><strong>Engage and know your audience</strong></p>
<p><em>There are a few simple steps that help you do this</em></p>
<ul>
<li>DO seek out people with a similar interest (<em>if you like dj&#8217;ing and stuff&#8230;seek out people who like that..<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dj%27ing" target="_blank">twitter search is your friend</a>)</em></li>
<li>The Best way to get followers is to ask people and interact, taking the dj example again you might ask (<em>ahhahah pioneer gear is shithouse, i&#8217;ve got some fantastic american dj stuff&#8230;.which is a poor example as i know its the other way around)</em></li>
<li>From that previous point the @ is your friend&#8230; ask questions about gear even just laugh along with some of the strange stuff that you see on twitter</li>
</ul>
<p>The real simple key to twitter is tweeting interesting stuff and knowing how to engage an audience, apart from that you really need to work out your own niche and work to it.</p>
<p><em>Also take note of your follower stats to see whats working </em><strong><a href="http://twittercounter.com/Hughesie" target="_blank">Twittercounter</a> </strong><em>is the best application i&#8217;ve found for that.</em></p>
<p><em>Thank you for reading all that, and remember <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=@hughesie" target="_blank">@hughesie </a>or leave me a comment on this post</em></p>
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		<title>Social Media In Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today i was having a conversation with someone regarding website design and attracting customers. Which made me take stock and realize that the internet and advertising is changing at such a rate that an advertising style a few years ago that was perfect wouldn&#8217;t work today at all. I think the largest change has been <a href="http://alexwhughes.com/social-media-in-business/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today i was having a conversation with someone regarding website design and attracting customers. Which made me take stock and realize that the internet and advertising is changing at such a rate that an advertising style a few years ago that was perfect wouldn&#8217;t work today at all. I think the largest change has been in the personalization of the internet that has been called web 2.0, which i&#8217;ve focused on seriously in a previous article.  But to recap, the main idea behind it is that the company or individual converses on a personal level back to the visitor, sometimes in real time allowing a better sense of the client base to be realized. For example i believe a keystone of an internet advertising campaign is no longer just getting a high search ranking in google but having accounts and links spread across twitter, myspace and facebook enabling the user to interact in this web 2.0 way. For some companies this style of approach is still bleeding edge and it all depends on your demographic. For example a DJ or lighting and sound company caters to younger generations that are always attached to some piece of technology, for a company like that a few targeted ads on facebook and a twitter feed telling their &#8220;followers&#8221; about gigs there currently working on should be a corner stone of their web deployment advertising. </p>
<p>On the other end of the spectrum accounting companies would be looking to gain the edge still in the printed media form and maintain a static html website that simply provides there viewers with a place to find contact addresses and telephone numbers. The reason for this is simple, older generations stick to what they are comfortable and they are used to picking up a phone, organizing a meeting and heading in for a face to face meeting to discuss business. The current 90&#8242;s generation wants everything to be instant, they want to be able to gain infomation and act on within minutes, i know of some of my peers who have poor face to face communication skills but the moment they get in front of a computer they can talk faster than i think! The times are a changing.</p>
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