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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Update to Timeline for all Business Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 30th, Facebook is automatically converting all business pages into the new Timeline layout. Not sure if you&#8217;re familiar with Timeline, but it basically places a very large image (cover photo) across the top of the page with your icon inset to the bottom left of it. You can go to my Facebook business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heard on New Stuff: SOPA, iBooks and Pinterest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently invited to be a guest co-host on &#8220;New Stuff&#8221;—an internet audio show (podcast) on themesh.tv. It was recorded last Friday and officially released yesterday for download and your listening pleasure. To listen to the show, go to: New Stuff 4: The SOPA, iTunes and Pinterest Episode It was a great discussion led by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create a Simple Facebook Feed on an HTML Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook Status/RSS Feed Tutorial This tutorial will teach you how to place a Facebook Page&#8217;s wall status feed into an html web page using Feedburner. It&#8217;s very similar to how you would create an RSS feed for your blog. (This is not a tutorial on how to integrate a &#8220;Like Box&#8221; from Facebook, which in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Web Designer&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Resolutions for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New year&#8230; new resolutions! Here&#8217;s a list I&#8217;d like to make public of my new year&#8217;s resolutions as a web designer. (By making it public, I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll stay on track a bit more.) They are in somewhat particular order, but who knows in which order they will be completed. These may take me all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>m.e.designlab Receives 2011 Best of Hickory Award for Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, NY, December 13, 2011 &#8212; m.e.designlab has been selected for the 2011 Best of Hickory Award in the Web Site Design &#38; Development category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The USCA &#8220;Best of Local Business&#8221; Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Label WordPress to Brand it as Your Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[web design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague and I recently had a discussion around this question: What is the possibility of white-labeling WordPress to brand it as our own? The answer she found was a plugin created and available through Video User Manuals called White Label CMS. This is a great plugin and I think it definitely adds a nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Fired Up About Customer Loyalty Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently went to lunch at Firehouse Subs in my little city of Hickory, NC. I&#8217;ve been carrying around a customer loyalty card for at least 2 years now, which says if I buy 7 meal combos, I get the 8th one for free. I knew I was getting close to my freebie and after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 FREE and EASY Ways to Promote Your Web Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you just created a fabulous new web site for your business… now what? If you build it they will come? Not really. The following presents a helpful list of &#8220;free&#8221; and &#8220;easy&#8221; tips and tactics to promote your web site. Why are &#8220;free&#8221; and &#8220;easy&#8221; in quotation marks you ask? Ahh, yes, because nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hickory NC Designer Wins Three American Graphic Design Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HICKORY, NC        Matt Everley, of Hickory, NC-based graphic design studio m.e.designlab, was recently selected as a winner for three 2011 American Graphic Design Awards by a nationwide panel of judges. The awards recognize excellence in communication and graphic design. The competition was presented by Graphic Design USA Magazine. A highly selective 15% of the 8,000+ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROS and CONS of Submitting RFP&#8217;s for Contracting Design Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an independent web and graphic design consultant, I am frequently provided with RFP&#8217;s (Requests for Proposals) to provide design and visual branding services. These often are accompanied by requests for printing or web design, development and programming. For the most part, I decline to provide a proposal back to the one who sent the [...]]]></description>
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