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	<title>A Curious View of the World</title>
	<link>http://bruceharpham.ca</link>
	<description>Examining libraries, records management and emerging media trends</description>
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		<title>Manufacturing In 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the commute home today, I experienced a moment of podcast heaven. Not only did I learn about a field that I know relatively little about (American manufacturing), but I learned about on an episode of EconTalk (Adam Davidson on Manufacturing) where the guest was Adam Davidson, one of the main reporters from NPR&#8217;s Planet [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2012/02/manufacturing-in-2012/</link>
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		<title>Should You Consider Real Estate Investing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I read Tim Cestnick&#8217;s article in the Globe &#38; Mail about freezing assets and one aspect of the article has had me thinking. In the article, Cestnick refers an interesting way of holding real estate:
Paul owns the shares of a corporation that holds rental properties that  he’s been accumulating over the years. [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2012/02/real-estate-investing-reit-vs-property/</link>
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		<title>Focused on Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m changing the direction of this blog to focus on a new set of topics including finance, investing and marketing. I think there are challenging problems and interesting issues in all of those fields. When I say marketing here, I mean it in a Seth Godin sense. When Godin writes about marketing, it&#8217;s about ideas [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2012/02/focused-on-finance/</link>
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		<title>Remember The Milk and thoughts on productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of an effort to further systematize my personal and professional organization, I&#8217;ve recently started using Remember The Milk. I first started using it in 2008 and recently started using it again. I am finding the functionality (and the iPhone app) of the service impressive and quite flexible. That all said, it does have [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2011/12/remember-the-milk-and-thoughts-on-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Professional Development Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes: I&#8217;ve been away from this blog for several months but I am hoping to get back into it from time to time.
I&#8217;ve been thinking about professional development lately and my views have changed in some ways. My understanding of professional development is now broader and more nuanced than before. For example, I think the [...]


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<li><a href='http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/09/abbreviations-acronyms-and-initialisms/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms'>Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms</a></li>
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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2011/05/professional-development-reflections/</link>
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		<title>2010 Year in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, I am writing a 2010 Year in Review to reflect on my accomplishments and projects of 2010. For the sake of balance (and to inspire me to move forward), I will also mention some projects where I didn&#8217;t make much progress. As I mentioned in my rushed post, I am once again inspired [...]


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<li><a href='http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/05/wilu-2010-design-play-learn/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: WILU 2010: Design, Play &#038; Learn! (Day 1)'>WILU 2010: Design, Play &#038; Learn! (Day 1)</a></li>
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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2011/01/2010-year-in-review/</link>
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		<title>Happy 2011 and notes on 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the start of a brand new year, I feel inspired to blog once more. This blog post comes to you from an Internet cafe in New York City operated by &#8220;New York Industries, Inc&#8221; and I&#8217;m in a great mood. Being in this great American metropolis never fails to inspire me.
As it has been [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2011/01/happy-2011/</link>
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		<title>Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking the language of a large, complex organization is a skill that takes some time to develop. In my new role, I have been tackling the challenge of learning a great deal about how the organization operates and understanding my own role. I have been particularly struck by the great amount of abbreviations that need [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/09/abbreviations-acronyms-and-initialisms/</link>
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		<title>Learning Along the Arc of a Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes on the diagram: The above diagram is my first attempt to visualize some of the insights from the lecture I am reporting on below. The baseline on the bottom is meant to signify the possibly of forgetting or failing to invest in learning. The gentle arc I have put in place suggests that learning [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/09/learning-along-the-arc-of-a-life/</link>
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		<title>Information as Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a complex organization, information has many different qualities and poses different problems. For traditional librarians or researchers, it is traditional to think of information positively. Better information and better organized information helps people think through problems, feel less stress and otherwise work more effectively. However, risk presents another way to think about information. Information [...]


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		<link>http://bruceharpham.ca/2010/09/information-as-risk/</link>
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