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		<title>Inspiring students. What would you tell them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m scheduled to open the Social Innovation @ Ivey Form and have been asked to get the audience of students &#8216;fired up&#8217; about social entrepreneurship and innovation. What would you tell them?
They are currently deciding on which electives to take and of course what career path to take &#8211; a big part of why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring a RoR developer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m eager to get building and am hiring a developer. Think you might know anyone &#8211; please help spread the word.
Here&#8217;s the posting:
We are a team of social and tech sector entrepreneurs.
We&#8217;re launching a startup that builds apps for a better future, sooner.
We&#8217;re looking for a full-time Ruby on Rails developer with the chops to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right? Bullshit.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pardon the profanity, but I&#8217;m tired of the bullshit.
People like to be right. Often being right means making other people wrong. This is not productive. 
Saying that it is productive because you are engaging in debate&#8230; does not make it productive either. 
All you are really doing is trying to win to be right. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up for Mothering!</title>
		<link>http://igniter.com/post587</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ARM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If mothering isn&#8217;t one of the more important things that shape our society and our future, I don&#8217;t know what is.
Somehow though I think it gets taken for granted. That couldn&#8217;t be more clear from the announcement that the leading organization that researches the topic is being forced to close. How is it that an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On privilege and change.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am privileged. Very privileged, and too often I lose sight of that and what it means. 
As a healthy and able mid-thirties, white, upper-class, educated male, I am in a position where I don&#8217;t face discrimination in any way. I can go for a run in the park at night, breeze through airport security, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ventures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Coleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shouldless]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year was a pivot for me. But while I&#8217;m entering with a new stance, my direction, my intention, remains.

To that, Ryan Coleman and I crafted this:
To have fun, live well, and make the world better by facilitating ambitious ventures.
Like last year, my focus rests on social technologies and how they are shifting our culture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 2009 in review</title>
		<link>http://igniter.com/post558</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just writing an update to some great partners of mine and realized I needed to include a recap of 2009 for some context on what&#8217;s next. That of course reminded me that I&#8217;d yet to post one. So here goes.
2009 was a pivotal one for me &#8211; a year of transition. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad is sneaky.</title>
		<link>http://igniter.com/post532</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that every day I find myself wanting an iPad for something. Those moments are coming not from being on the computer, but from going about my daily life, and that&#8217;s what I think is what the iPad is about.
I started out thinking it would be ideal for my kids to use their favourite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Entrepreneurship? What are you waiting for?</title>
		<link>http://igniter.com/post528</link>
		<comments>http://igniter.com/post528#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environmental science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Guelph]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m presenting the deck below at the 16th Annual Environmental Sciences Symposium at University of Guelph. I&#8217;m told to expect an audience of about 200 &#8211; mostly undergrads. That&#8217;s one of my favourite scenarios. Talking about any form of entrepreneurship to people about to embark on the rest of their lives is fun.
With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenMicroBlogging amps up the medium of change.</title>
		<link>http://igniter.com/post519</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Igniter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[#cmMontreal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Deitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[status.net]]></category>

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December 18th was the first ever StatusCamp. It was also another ChangeMedium experiment &#8211; bringing the context of the medium of change to the developers building its future.
The event was an excellent day with over two dozen folks including the Status.net team and Peter Deitz of SocialActions. It was an amazing event to learn about [...]]]></description>
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