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		<description>Announcements from Business Network South West members in Bristol, Exeter and Taunton. A great way to tell everyone what you are up to.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:52:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Nibley Music Festival</title>
			<description>Sat July 3rd 2-11pm
Probably the prettiest festival location ever on top of the Cotswold Edge and fantastic music, food and drink (plus more free kids activities than you could believe)

Thank you to Chris Gordon for this
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:49:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Business Network Member Rebrands</title>
			<description>SPS have rebranded to become Augmentor</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:11:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>St Loye's Royal Announcement</title>
			<description>March 11th HM The Queen and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh will visit St Loye’s Foundation, before going on to visit three other organisations in Devon.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:45:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Inspirational Entrepreneur Coming To Exeter</title>
			<description>Best of CEO Nigel Botterill, an inspirational entrpeneur with great tips for your business, will be speaking at a BIG event at Sandy Park. Early bird booking price: &#163;30 for members / &#163;40 for non-members. Tickets available on 11th March.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:42:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Newly released Government grants open opportunity</title>
			<description>Newly released Government grants through Train to Gain means that PhotoReading can now be funded for companies employing 2 or more people including owners and directors. </description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:51:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>HR Department expands</title>
			<description>Bristol Business Network members The Hr Dept, which specialises in delivering employment advice to SMEs, has opened a further five offices since September, taking its number of UK offices to 35.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:47:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>CW IT Services offer tailored IT training </title>
			<description>If your business has more than 5 employees you may also be eligible for Train to Gain funding under the IT Leadership &#38; Management program</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:43:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Network Central - Exeter</title>
			<description>22nd April Matford Park

10am - 4pm

Supporting Devon Air Ambulance Trust</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:25:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Children's Hospice South West Corporate Challenge</title>
			<description>Saturday June 5th 2010
The Corporate Challenge brings together businesses from across the region for one goal – to help Children’s Hospice South West make the most of short and precious lives.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:09:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>BRISTOL BUSINESS SURGERY</title>
			<description>30th March 2010 - Ashton Court Mansion

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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:45:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>LinkedIn Awareness - Become a Social Media Guru!</title>
			<description>Following February&#39;s &#34;SocialCRM&#34; presentation at Business Network (SW), it occurred to us that many people could benefit from a one to one LinkedIn training session. </description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:37:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Devon Air Ambulance Trust</title>
			<description>Recession Ball will take place on Friday 12th March 2010 

7.30pm to 1am at Padbrook Park, Cullompton.  Live music from THICK AS THIEVES</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:33:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Leadership and Management Funding</title>
			<description>Up to &#163;1,000 funding to capitalise on the leadership and management potential within your business</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:02:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Business Network Full Listing of UK Hosts</title>
			<description>From Aberdeen to Exeter and South Humberside to West Wales
Monthly lunchtime events with decision makers</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:03:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>FIRST DENTAL MARKETING COMPANY IN THE SOUTH WEST</title>
			<description>Devon based Smartcomms 4 Business MD, Steve Davey has launched a new marketing business dedicated to the dental profession.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:16:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>‘Hollywood Nights Ball & Awards Ceremony</title>
			<description>The Charity’s Patron, actress Sarah Parish believes the awards are a brilliant idea
that, subject to filming commitments, she will be there on the night to present the Awards in person.



The Charity’s Patron, actress Sarah Parish be</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:40:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>BusinessXtra exhibition – EGCC</title>
			<description>BusinessXtra exhibition – Exeter Golf &#38; Country Club Tuesday 23rd March</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:40:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Business Network Member receives Approval</title>
			<description>Simply Assisting You has been approved by Devon Trading Standards under their Buy with Confidence Scheme
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:13:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Networking Articles  by Business Network Members</title>
			<description>Peter Heath of SPS
Networking isn’t a new idea – but with some thought and effort it can make a real difference to your business. Peter explains how
Rosemary Pell of Road User Support Service
I LOVE running my own businesses and enjoy the freedom, flex</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:33:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Business Network Member Charity Marathon Ski</title>
			<description>Steve Davey , MD of Smartcomms 4business, will be skiing 24 Alpine Peaks in 48 hours to raise money for Scope</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:38:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Importance of remembering names when networking</title>
			<description>Thank you to Kintish for this gem!</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Thank you from Headway Somerset</title>
			<description>Just wanted to say a big thank you for organising the raffle for Headway Somerset and of course to everyone who donated prizes.   We are very grateful to your continued support to us and really appreciate it.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:34:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Contract Sales</title>
			<description> Times are tough. You still have to hit your sales targets, but investing in more sales staff is not what you want to do at the moment.  How do you get that sales boost without the financial commitment required for growing your sales team?

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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:36:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>N3 and The Blue Reef</title>
			<description>N3 Display Graphics recently printed an fitted a kilometer of graphics to the Blue Reef in Bristol</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:33:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>DEVON ROAD USER SUPPORT SERVICE CELEBRATES </title>
			<description>DEVON ROAD USER SUPPORT SERVICE CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY BY TAKING ON TWO NEW TEAM MEMBERS</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:21:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Marketing database for the busy professional</title>
			<description>Thank yo to Simon Leek of South West ICT</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:52:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Making Online Marketing Work</title>
			<description>Thank you to GWS Media for this.

We all know that we need to market our goods and services online. So what should we bear in mind?</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Healthy Lifestyle Books launched in UK</title>
			<description>DEVON NUTRIONIST EXPERT LAUNCHES 
A SERIES OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE BOOKS IN THE UK
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:35:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>24/7 UK card processing through your Blackberry</title>
			<description>Steve Leahy of Bridgewater Communications spoke about this at the last Bristol Business Network event</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:54:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Leadership - some provocative thoughts</title>
			<description>Thank you to Simon Hollington of Leading Edge Personal Development for these articles.

Want to know more about the &#39;Jerk&#39; factor or what Bilbo Baggins has to do with business?   Read on.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:16:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Road User Support Service</title>
			<description>Have you ever been involved in or affected by a road traffic accident?</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:29:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Offer of Market Beating Electricity Prices</title>
			<description>Business Network (SW) have secured market beating Energy prices for members.
Small businesses that are members of the network can benefit from a centrally negotiated group price that is unavailable on the open market with one of the major UK energy suppl</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:20:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Peninsular OneSource in the news</title>
			<description>Press release issued by Peninsular OneSource client!</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:58:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>How to Make Your Business Truly Magic</title>
			<description>Mark Leveridge - Professional Magician hosted the seminar on 12 November as part of The Bristol Business Network event.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Surviving the Credit Crunch from LC Mortgages</title>
			<description>Thank you to Linda at LC Mortgages for these top tips</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:29:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>More good news for Voicescene</title>
			<description>As posted on the Best of Exeter site</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Ultimate Marketing Boot Camp</title>
			<description>You may wish to take advantage of the massive discount by being one of the first 50 businesses to take advantage of this fantastic marketing offer. It&#39;ll generate quality new customers for you in Q4, in 2009 and way beyond - for a nominal cost.

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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:50:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>You and I</title>
			<description>&#39;You &#38; I&#39; small business networking group. 
Pass business leads, referrals and business ideas onto each other, plus hold the odd social event throughout the year.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Road User Support Service</title>
			<description>The Road User Support Service (RUSS) is a unique organisation based in Devon, offering complete rehabilitation assistance to help you deal with the emotional problems and trauma as a result of a road traffic incident. RUSS offers tailor-made programmes pr</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:09:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Credit Crunch and Japanese Banks</title>
			<description>A humourous look at the impact of the credit crunch on Japanese banks.

Thank you to Colin Pearson of Solv Finance </description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:41:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Business South West</title>
			<description>Register your attendance here</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:47:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cadbury House Hotel</title>
			<description>The Newsletter.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:05:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Talking Point Experiment</title>
			<description>Talking vs Typing</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:36:45 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Employer Ambassadors for Diplomas in Bristol.</title>
			<description>Employer ambassadors are representatives of the industry they work in and are people who have volunteered to become involved in the Diploma programme. Employer Ambassadors will bring real-life experience to young people in schools and colleges, to motivat</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:23:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Exeter Hotel Achieves 4 Star Status</title>
			<description>After 3 years under the new ownership of Folio Hotels, the 54-bedroomed Buckerell Lodge Hotel on Topsham Road has been awarded a 4 star quality level. This follows a covert visit last week by an inspector from the AA.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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