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		<title>&#8220;Finding Meaning In Your Projects&#8221; Presentation in New York City 28 September 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explored the area between project management and spirituality with the Project Management Institute New York City (PMI NYC) Chapter today.
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Finding Meaning In Your Projects on Prezi


Much thanks to the great audience from PMI NYC. We had some good discussions at the event.
At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PMI NYC Chapter Members Get Free Access to Web Seminars at Real-Life Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am incredibly excited and proud to announce that all Project Management Institute New York City Chapter (PMI NYC) members now get free access to the whole Real-Life Projects Web Seminar series.

There is no &#8220;catch&#8221;, no &#8220;strings attached&#8221;. If you are a paid member of the PMI NYC Chapter, you get access to all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to Gary Heerkens and Claudia Pak on Strategic Project Managers LinkedIn Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to send a big &#8220;thank you&#8221; to Gary Heerkens and Claudia Pak for their help with the Strategic Project Managers LinkedIn Group. Both have posted some very thoughtful information there, and are now helping to moderate the group.

About Strategic Project Managers LinkedIn Group

A group of project managers working on strategic goals for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Communication and Your Emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication is widely recognized as a critical skill for project managers. Our work depends on accurate, clear communication.

Project managers tend to be practical, fact-oriented people. When we speak, write, read, and listen, we focus on facts.

Every communication has an emotional context, though. Are you aware of that context? Are you intentionally using that context to create an emotional response in your audience?]]></description>
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		<title>A Sad, Sad Day for Project Managers &#8211; PM SPAM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the first project management spam campaign.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;So You Want to Be an Independent Consultant&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to get an independent consultant to be frank and forthcoming about their business. During this one-hour recording, you will get an insider&#8217;s view of what it is like to go from being an employee to an independent consultant. The audience had hard-hitting, personal questions, and they got full, open answers.



Thinking of Becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Introducing Project Management In Your Organization&#8221; Recorded Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing project management to an organization is hard work. By appealing to the strategists and the senior executives in your organization, it is possible to make project management grow and flourish.

The main speech:
Follow-up discussion the following day:
Video of the whole speech, including discussion the following day:



Press “play” to begin. The speech will start after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Strategic Project Management&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear one of my first speeches to put together strategic planning and project management. Hear the story of how a real company was able to implement its strategy through projects, and the unexpected benefits the company gained.




Press “play” to begin. The speech will start after the introduction. If you want to hear the introduction, click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Charter: Selling Your Project&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI North America Congress on September 12, 2005. The entire 54-minute speech will play below, with slides synchronized to the audio, and it is also available as an audio or video podcast from this site.

     Available as a four-contact hour, four PDU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Project Charters Bridge Cultures&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how project charters successfully bridged cultural gaps when making decisions among a community of Japanese and U.S. executives. Establishing a clear chartering process was the key to project management&#8217;s success at the company. The presentation will include templates and overviews of the processes established.
This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI New [...]]]></description>
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