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	<title>DeFinis Communications Come Alive!</title>
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		<title>Forbes Magazine Releases Their List of the 70 Most Powerful People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Forbes Magazine released their list of the 70 Most Powerful People in the World. I admit I was a bit taken back by two key points of their piece:

Forbes’ headline declared that of the 7 billion people in the world, these were the 70 “who mattered”
Only six of the people mentioned were women

According [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/forbes-magazine-releases-their-list-of-the-70-most-powerful-people/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blog: A Corporate Speechwriter’s Halloween Tour of Medieval England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A veteran speechwriter and executive communications specialist, Ian Griffin helps CEOs and senior managers develop strategic messaging and content for presentations to audiences worldwide. He is Past-President of the Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association and an active member of Toastmasters. A version of this article first appeared in Ian’s blog Professionally Speaking.
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/guest-blog-a-corporate-speechwriter%e2%80%99s-halloween-tour-of-medieval-england/</link>
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		<title>Three Women, One Mission: Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1903, two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie, for the first time. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since, but in very small numbers compared to their male colleagues. But is the trend possibly turning? It could be, because this year, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/three-women-one-mission-peace/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blog: Lessons from Bethenny Frankel of The Real Housewives of New York City – How to Build Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got Platform? Part 3 of a Three-part Series: Income
Greenleaf Book Group is a publisher and distributor that specializes in the development of independent authors and the growth of small presses. Our publishing model was designed to support the independent author and to make it possible for writers to retain the rights to their work and still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/guest-blog-lessons-from-bethenny-frankel-of-the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city-how-to-build-income/</link>
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		<title>When Passion, Power and Perseverance Combine – You Get Melinda Gates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tracking the philanthropic activities of Melinda Gates is like watching an army of ants build their colony. Yet she is not just the queen; she is also a worker, taking on the roles needed to build the vision, implement the plan and change the world.
If you ever think that everything going on in our world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/when-passion-power-and-perseverance-combine-you-get-melinda-gates/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blog:  Lessons from Suze Orman &#8211; How to Influence and Connect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got Platform? Part 2 of a Three-part Series: Influence
Greenleaf Book Group is a publisher and distributor that specializes in the development of independent authors and the growth of small presses. Our publishing model was designed to support the independent author and to make it possible for writers to retain the rights to their work and still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/guest-blog-lessons-from-suze-orman-how-to-influence-and-connect/</link>
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		<title>Part 1 of a Three-part Series: Got Platform?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog Part 1 of a Three-part Series:
Greenleaf Book Group is a publisher and distributor that specializes in the development of independent authors and the growth of small presses. Our publishing model was designed to support the independent author and to make it possible for writers to retain the rights to their work and still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/part-1-of-a-three-part-series-got-platform/</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs (1955-2011): It’s Time to Pay Tribute to a Great Visionary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with the rest of the world, I am mourning the loss of Steve Jobs today. This morning at breakfast I was thinking about the services that will be held to honor his life and wondered who would be giving the eulogy. Imagine being selected to give the eulogy at the funeral services of someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/steve-jobs-1955-2011-its-time-to-pay-tribute-to-a-great-visionary/</link>
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		<title>Wangari Maathai: Honoring a Powerful Female Leader and Speaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a week ago, on September 25th, the world lost a great environmental and political activist, Wangari Muta “Mary Jo” Maathai.
For those of you who may not be familiar with her or her work, here’s a small snapshot of her many accomplishments:

Founder of the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots tree-planting organization, comprised primarily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.definiscommunications.com/blog/wangari-maathai-honoring-a-powerful-female-leader-and-speaker/</link>
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		<title>Women in the U.S. Senate. 17 Strong…and Hopefully Growing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many bloggers (including myself) often lament the dismal number of women in corporate executive leadership positions. And while those figures are low, have you ever noticed how few women represent us in the United States senate? Here are few shocking facts:

Since the establishment of the US Senate in 1789, there have been only 39 female [...]]]></description>
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