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		<title>Notes on our current business strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of the past month, a radical and exciting development has been made at SR to crystallize our business plan and begin executing on a very specific strategy.  I&#8217;d like to share some of the key points and introduce 2 new members of our startup team:  Nicole Walker and Sepehr Sadighpour.  Their bios [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming Michael Innes to the team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you probably don&#8217;t know what SelfReliant &#8220;is&#8221; &#8211; and that&#8217;s alright, because up until now, I haven&#8217;t either.
Transitioning from a successful patent brokerage firm to another model of doing business has been much harder than I imagined, and made for a difficult &#8216;08 and &#8216;09.  2010 is going to be different though, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How does learning occur in social media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate about social media today goes something like this:

Social Media Fanboy:  Your PR departments have missed the cluetrain and generate inauthentic corporate jargon-laden technospeak that doesn&#8217;t connect to the needs of individual people!
Guy Who Still Reads Newspaper:  Your social media sounds great, but only a specific demographic uses it, it&#8217;s leaky and liability-prone for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SelfReliant 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me say first off that meeting Carolyn Ruth Meyer is the best thing that&#8217;s ever happened to me, and that should be no surprise to anyone who knows we just got married June 26th, 2009.  What you may not know is that her time is also going to be the best thing that&#8217;s happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NMC + Edupunk + USQ + SelfReliant = Paradigm Shift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is going to be difficult for me to write coherently, so I&#8217;ve included a video of yours truly rambling out a number of ideas.  This is really my first web video update since my dorm room at Duke became a stage &#8211; well this time it&#8217;s Hammock&#8217;s Coffee &#8211; a great little spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebooting Your Brain: Know Thyself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to invite everyone to go ahead and take a look at this video:

It&#8217;s not the most scientific video, and it is a 67 minute commitment, but this technique has already been useful for me.  I think the #1 problem with being a self-educator in a world of information overload is that our heads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Needs to Watch This Video &amp; 10 Self-Educators&#039; Rules for &#039;09</title>
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Self-Educators&#8217; Rules for 2009 and Beyond In light of this video, I&#8217;m proposing some basic rules of the road for this fast-paced society we now inhabit:
1.  Work Faster (or Embrace the Automated Middleman)

The first thing we must understand is that whatever we are doing can probably already be done faster and cheaper.  Seek out and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHEA Conference a Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you read any further you may be wondering what CHEA is (unless of course you are one of the members who also attended the conference).  CHEA stands for the &#8220;Council on Higher Education Accreditation&#8221; and is the non-profit, non-governmental, national organizing body for the regional accreditors in the US.  As I understand it, CHEA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing SelfReliant Homestead in Second Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me know that I love Second Life and immersive 3D virtual worlds in general, such as the open source project Croquet/Cobalt being spearheaded at my very own Duke University.  Check those guys out whenever you get a chance.
But while we&#8217;re waiting for some solid open- or closed-source competitors, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfreliantllc.com/wordpress/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To everyone in my life who has shown me love and friendship, I wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The new year is a great time to reflect on how to become more self-reliant and productive online, and I know that 2009 will be an amazing year of growth.
My resolution this year is to [...]]]></description>
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