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		<title>North East Tyne Twestival returns</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2010/01/north-east-tyne-twestival-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TyneTwestival will be hosted on the 25th March 2010
On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in     hundreds of cities around the world, including Newcastle will come together offline to     rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local     events to have fun and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mandate for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Declan Metcalfe, Marketing Director, Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post by Jeanne C Meister and Karie Willyerd in Harvard Business discussed how few socially connected organisations there are, indicating this will need to be redressed if companies are to be attractive to a future workforce that judges a potential employer by the social media freedom they allow their employees.
The social networking juice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media: Beyond the Hype</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/10/social-media-beyond-the-hype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: Thursday 29 October
Time: 5.30 – 8pm followed by food, drinks and networking
Venue: Great North Museum: Hancock, NE2 4PT
 Cost: FREE to Codeworks Connect members; £20 to non-members
Everyone and anyone is talking up social media right now. Asking you to &#8220;join the conversation&#8221;, &#8220;engage&#8221; with your customers rather than shouting at them. And telling you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charities are making social media work hard for them</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/10/charities-are-making-social-media-work-hard-for-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In tough economic times people and businesses are less able to give as freely as they may have once given, charity unfortunately stays at home!
As with any business in a recession charities need to be where their audience is or they run the risk of being left behind, and it’s clear some smaller charities are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TyneTees Twestival THIS MONDAY @ 7pm</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/09/tynetees-twestival-this-monday-7pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
Just a reminder that Tyne Tees Twestival will be held this coming Monday.  The team here at Twestival Towers are really excited and have been a bit hectic of late, hence the direct mailing!  Thanks to everyone who has bought a ticket already, and I hope you will encourage others to do the same!
It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWESTIVAL IS BACK, AND TWICE AS BIG!</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/08/twestival-is-back-and-twice-as-big/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/08/twestival-is-back-and-twice-as-big/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of you have heard, Twestival is back and Better Brand Agency is happy to announce Tyne and Tees Twestivals will be taking place in early September.
Details of headline sponsor and corporate sponsors opportunities will be announced shortly, as will some of the ideas we’ve got to make this year, bigger and better. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100% pure filtered brand messages!</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/07/100-pure-filtered-brand-messages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Declan Metcalfe, Marketing Director, Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest challenges we face as marketers is to build and maintain strong brands.
Thankfully our tool chests are brimming with tools to help us carve out rich seams of knowledge and understanding relating to our audience that feeds our strategic thinking. That&#8217;s not all, add to this the torrent of real time feedback [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIM Event: Facing the future &#8211; Is there space for social networks in your business?</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/06/cim-event-facing-the-future-is-there-space-for-social-networks-in-your-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/06/cim-event-facing-the-future-is-there-space-for-social-networks-in-your-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is social media a flash in the pan?
Is it relevant to your business and should it be at the heart of your marketing strategy?
Or should we get a (second) life and stop the twitter?
As a marketing practitioner, you may feel that you need to be using social media, or simply want to keep abreast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget the tools, think about the conversation</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/05/forget-the-tools-think-about-the-conversation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/05/forget-the-tools-think-about-the-conversation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 12:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Declan Metcalfe, Marketing Director, Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phew, it’s getting crowded in here!&#8230;New ways of connecting people are coming hard and fast with a handful of cool APIs a day being launched to connect to big social media networks and mobile devices as well as pure bred micro blogging tools (Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Jaiku, My Say, Hictu) and the new rash of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the end of focus groups?</title>
		<link>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/04/is-this-the-end-of-focus-groups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterbrandagency.com/2009/04/is-this-the-end-of-focus-groups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Declan Metcalfe, Marketing Director, Better Brand Agency</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking yesterday with an account manager who during a discussion about market research said that social media metrics would never replace the value gained from facial expressions, body language and the tone of voice of people attending a live focus group.
I&#8217;ve planned a few focus group sessions in the past when I was [...]]]></description>
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