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		<title>That&#8217;s All, Folks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Apparently I&#8217;m all about pop&#8211;or un-pop&#8211;culture references in my titles now.) The day is winding down, my list of tasks to frantically finish is dwindling, and after a quick clean-up my desk is looking fairly sparse. It&#8217;s the final two hours of my internship. The last thing I want to say from this particular soapbox [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1163&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospect and Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for a little retrospect. I promise I won&#8217;t go all maudlin on you, but this being the last week of my internship it seems unavoidable to write about lessons learned, skills developed, co-operations co-operated. In the early stages of my internship, I often had trouble saying what I did in a day, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1161&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Co-op&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I only have three posts left before I leave the On Co-op bloggership, and I&#8217;ve started to think about how I might best use my remaining time. I&#8217;ve certainly learned a lot here, and that will show up in my blogging next week, but this position is about me influencing the co-op sector as much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1158&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Rafters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, I owe my readership an apology. On Friday I was into some big projects and, in trying to wrap everything up, the end of the day came and went before I&#8217;d had a chance to blog. I pride myself on the consistency (and sometimes the inanity) of this blog; today, I am not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1151&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of the internship is starting to loom. I&#8217;ve been aware of it before, but now it&#8217;s starting to invade my personal space, peek over my shoulder at my computer screen (&#8220;Is answering that email really the best use of your remaining time?&#8221;) and breathe down the back of my neck. Altogether rude. Before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1146&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1%</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m going to indulge in a little promotion. Not self-promotion, mind; that stuff makes my skin crawl. As other blog posts have mentioned, I have some issues with advertising writing; but in communications, that&#8217;s a large part of what I do. Here&#8217;s the good side, though. There are some causes, organizations, and topics that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1139&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Comes Next</title>
		<link>http://ontariocoops.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/what-comes-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to start the day with a blog, rather than save it for the end&#8211;as I&#8217;ve mentioned before, that often ends up with rushed writing. As of today, there are four weeks left in my internship. This means I&#8217;m well into the job-hunting process, trying to make it so that by the end of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1136&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Style and Substance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I got to tackle the On Co-op eNewsletter for the first time. The eNewsletter is more formal than the blog, which meant exploring a different tone than the one I use here. Formal news delivery isn&#8217;t new to me, since I often post news stories through the RSS feed on the website, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1134&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Family Day, I find myself reflecting on the relation between co-ops and families. In the creation of the petition video (mentioned previously), I got to meet people from a variety of co-ops, and talk to them about what makes co-ops tick. There was a lot of great footage that didn&#8217;t end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1120&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look What the Germs Dragged In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Arbuthnott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I return, humbled, after an extensive battle against the common cold. The cold won, but it was merciful enough to leave me alive. Regardless, I&#8217;ve missed a blog post entirely for the first time. My sincere apologies. This week felt, in many ways, like a punishment for the weeks that came before. As you may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ontariocoops.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8371376&amp;post=1117&amp;subd=ontariocoops&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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