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	<title>Comments on: The Association Bloggies: Ben Martin&#8217;s 2008 association blog awards</title>
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	<description>Making a loud noise and leaving the room since 2004</description>
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		<title>By: Jamie Notter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie Notter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My dreams of &quot;three-peat&quot; dashed! Well, now you&#039;ve given me my blogging motivation in 2009! Congratulations to everyone, and kudos to you Ben for doing this. It&#039;s a nice part of our blogging community.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dreams of &#8220;three-peat&#8221; dashed! Well, now you&#8217;ve given me my blogging motivation in 2009! Congratulations to everyone, and kudos to you Ben for doing this. It&#8217;s a nice part of our blogging community.</p>
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		<title>By: Maggie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maggie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I LOVE comments-o-matic and can&#039;t even tell you how much I appreciate the way it directs me to great posts and conversations (like this one) that I would have otherwise missed. No more having to click &quot;notify me of followup comments by email&quot; because they&#039;ll be right in my inbox anyway ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I LOVE comments-o-matic and can&#8217;t even tell you how much I appreciate the way it directs me to great posts and conversations (like this one) that I would have otherwise missed. No more having to click &#8220;notify me of followup comments by email&#8221; because they&#8217;ll be right in my inbox anyway <img src='http://benmartincae.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Kevin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you very much for the kind words, Ben and all! I really appreciate it. May 2009 be a great year for everyone!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you very much for the kind words, Ben and all! I really appreciate it. May 2009 be a great year for everyone!</p>
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		<title>By: Cindy</title>
		<link>http://benmartincae.com/the-association-bloggies-ben-martins-2008-association-blog-awards/comment-page-1#comment-1766</link>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Totally agree with you Ben.  Kevin Holland&#039;s posts (social media&#039;s &quot;Mr. Holland&#039;s Opus&quot;) are consistently superb and entirely relevant to the practice of association management.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Totally agree with you Ben.  Kevin Holland&#8217;s posts (social media&#8217;s &#8220;Mr. Holland&#8217;s Opus&#8221;) are consistently superb and entirely relevant to the practice of association management.</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa Junker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa Junker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ben, thank you so much for your kind words about Acronym! 

I completely agree with your other great award picks--I drop everything to read a post of Kevin&#039;s as soon as it goes up, and (as I&#039;ve said before) Frank is a fabulous addition to the association blogging community. 

And if you had been too modest to mention comments-o-matic yourself, I had planned to do it for you! I think it adds so much--it makes it so much easier to follow and participate in conversations. I bet if we went back and counted, the number of comments on association blogs would prove to have gone up steadily since comments-o-matic was launched.

I personally think that Acronym is going to get even better in the coming year, with Scott&#039;s new position focusing more specifically on social media; he&#039;s got some great ideas for it already, and I know he&#039;ll have more. But I also think that the A-List Network will get better and better in the coming year. I&#039;m just happy that so many association folks can benefit from the great writing and thoughts shared by association bloggers! It&#039;s a great time to be in associations. =)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ben, thank you so much for your kind words about Acronym! </p>
<p>I completely agree with your other great award picks&#8211;I drop everything to read a post of Kevin&#8217;s as soon as it goes up, and (as I&#8217;ve said before) Frank is a fabulous addition to the association blogging community. </p>
<p>And if you had been too modest to mention comments-o-matic yourself, I had planned to do it for you! I think it adds so much&#8211;it makes it so much easier to follow and participate in conversations. I bet if we went back and counted, the number of comments on association blogs would prove to have gone up steadily since comments-o-matic was launched.</p>
<p>I personally think that Acronym is going to get even better in the coming year, with Scott&#8217;s new position focusing more specifically on social media; he&#8217;s got some great ideas for it already, and I know he&#8217;ll have more. But I also think that the A-List Network will get better and better in the coming year. I&#8217;m just happy that so many association folks can benefit from the great writing and thoughts shared by association bloggers! It&#8217;s a great time to be in associations. =)</p>
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		<title>By: Maddie Grant</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maddie Grant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice one.  Thanks Ben, as always, for the round-up and congrats to the winners!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice one.  Thanks Ben, as always, for the round-up and congrats to the winners!</p>
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