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		<title>Chicago New Media Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got my near-daily spam e-mail about the Chicago New Media Summit announcing that the price had been dropped. I&#8217;d had a feeling before that this event was in trouble, but this seals it. Here&#8217;s what I think they are doing wrong: At first, registration was invite-only. That hoity-toity bullshit might fly in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A letter that made my week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I got to my day job one day to find a card from a co-worker who I&#8217;d done a few small freelance jobs for here and there. We&#8217;d met a few times to discuss work she wanted me to do on her women&#8217;s group&#8217;s website, but I hadn&#8217;t started anything yet. Partly it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Tips on working with a designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been drawing a lot in my spare time, which makes it hard to post since I&#8217;m not at the computer. However, I did come across a great link today that I think applies to anyone working with a designer and not just those in the film industry: 5 tips on working with a designer]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Another info@ e-mail issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember this post that I made awhile back? Well, I&#8217;ve come across an offender even bigger than the previous two: Yahoo Groups. Apparently I can have my actual e-mail address associated with my account there, but I can&#8217;t subscribe to any lists with it. So now when I sign up for new lists that utilize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=18</link>
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		<title>The Manager&#8217;s Cheat Sheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last few months, I&#8217;ve been thinking more about the direction that I want my career to go in. While I know that design will always be my main area of focus, I&#8217;m wondering if my strong organizational skills would be better suited towards a role with more responsibility. I haven&#8217;t made any definitely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes someone a designer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I&#8217;ve gotten into discussions with people over what makes someone a web designer. In one case, the other person did Photoshop mock-ups and didn&#8217;t even know HTML &#8211; he used WYSIWYG editors to code sites for him. In another case, the person knows CSS really well and we were talking about how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=16</link>
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		<title>A lesson learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite doing freelance web work for 9 years, I&#8217;ve never been confronted with a situation where I needed to have a client sign a contract. A lot of my clients have been smaller-scale businesses that highly value flexibility, so contracts tend to freak them out a little. Plus, not having attorney fees as part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=14</link>
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		<title>How NOT to get me to sign up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Awhile back, I got a couple of phone calls from someone at Portfolios.com trying to get me to purchase an account on their site. It was almost always during the day while I was at work and couldn&#8217;t talk, but the woman on the phone was very persistent. When I finally asked her over e-mail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=13</link>
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		<title>E-mail addresses starting with info@</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a few articles that touted Facebook as a good networking tool and with nothing to lose except my dignity, I tried to sign up for an account. I say &#8220;tried&#8221; because apparently they don&#8217;t accept anything starting with info@ as a valid e-mail address. This is a problem because that&#8217;s the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=12</link>
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		<title>How I got here (part 1: childhood)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things in my past that have contributed to my becoming a web designer and I thought I&#8217;d share them in case you want to breed your children to become web designers too. To start with, we always had a computer in the house because my dad worked at IBM during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Where has all the software gone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though I&#8217;ve been designing for a long time, I haven&#8217;t done a lot with vector graphics. Illustrator and Flash are definitely weaknesses of mine and I&#8217;ve set out to learn more. The new Threadless store will be offering design training classes with Digital Bootcamp, but I&#8217;m also looking into resources for learning on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Getting a client to redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have 2 clients for whom I mainly do maintenance updates. In one case, I just designed their site last year and they are already open to making some tweaks to update the look. However, the other one is still using the original design I did for them&#8230; 10 YEARS AGO. So far, I&#8217;ve just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=7</link>
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		<title>Sometimes the pay isn&#8217;t worth it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I had a freelance client who was one of the cheapest individuals I have ever met in my life despite the fact that he did well enough to afford a $1 million house in the city. Every time I updated his site, he wanted an estimate and he tried to haggle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=6</link>
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		<title>How to behave at a web conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent trip to An Event Apart was the first time I&#8217;d been to a conference of any sort, but even so it was obvious that some people just don&#8217;t know how to act right. Here&#8217;s a list of some of the things that I saw or experienced first-hand, though I&#8217;m sure the seasoned veterans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creativelyobsessed.com/?p=4</link>
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		<title>Step 1: Cut a hole in the box&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first post of my design blog. At the recommendation of a few fine folks who I met at An Event Apart: Chicago, I&#8217;m working on yet another way to whore myself out express myself creatively. Enjoy!]]></description>
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