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	<title>Ryan Paugh — I build communities</title>
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	<description>My name is Ryan Paugh and I build online communities.  My business is helping brands get connected with people.  My philosophy is simple: Listen to what people want and you will find success.</description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m leaving Brazen Careerist</title>
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This is only a snippet of a full post about stepping down from my position at my company.  You can read the whole thing over at Brazen Careerist.  It&#8217;s been a hell of a ride you guys!
At the end of this month, I&#8217;m stepping down as Community Manager for Brazen Careerist. As a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/leaving-brazen-careerist/</link>
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		<title>Things to unlearn about social media.</title>
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In a couple weeks, I&#8217;m presenting at the 2010 Career Summit.   My session is all about taking control of what you&#8217;re doing online, unlearning bad habits and being smarter with your time.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve struggled with a lot as a Community Manager and I&#8217;m hoping that I can help people avoid some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to handle life&#8217;s mistakes.</title>
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Lately I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time trying to impress my girlfriend&#8217;s parents.  I want them to like me.  I know for a fact that they didn&#8217;t like her last boyfriend and I feel like setting myself apart from this dude is really important.  So last weekend we offered to watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/how-to-handle-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Ask Yourself: Why do I hate my job?</title>
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I&#8217;m lucky to be a Community Manager.  It affords me with a wealth of opportunities to connect with motivated, interesting people.  About a month ago it provided me with an opportunity to connect with Shane Mac—driven entrepreneur, unstoppable content creator and all around righteous dude.
It&#8217;s hard not to be inspired by someone like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/hate-job-video/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve never had a mentor, and that&#8217;s okay</title>
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Penelope Trunk told me that she couldn&#8217;t be my mentor.  &#8220;You&#8217;re too difficult,&#8221; was what she said.  At the time I didn&#8217;t care because I thought that I hated her.  Emotions run high in early-stage start ups.  Ours was no exception.
Over time I realized that I didn&#8217;t really hate Penelope.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/mentors/</link>
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		<title>On thinking that I&#8217;m going deaf, and confrontation</title>
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I almost always cut the first paragraph out of each blog post.  I do this because my first paragraph rarely accomplishes anything other than self absorption.  Writer&#8217;s masturbation, if you will.
I&#8217;m telling you this because you might spend a lot of time beating around the bush, too.  Sometimes we end up hurting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/confronting-fear/</link>
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		<title>A lesson in being stuck, and getting unstuck</title>
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When I adopted Charlie, it fit.  I&#8217;m the type of person who likes having someone to take care of, and when I was working from home I felt less lonely.  I had always loved having dogs, and this was going to be the first dog that was all mine.  Up until last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/getting-stuck/</link>
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		<title>Getting my act together in 2010, I&#8217;ll be blogging here again</title>
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I want to tell you about my New Year&#8217;s resolution.  I know a lot of you hate the idea of resolutions, but honestly I don&#8217;t understand why.  It&#8217;s all about rebirth.  That&#8217;s what the Babylonians thought when they first came up with it.  And who are we to question the Babylonians?
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/blogging-again/</link>
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		<title>We launched the new Brazen Careerist today, and why bigger does mean better</title>
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This summer has been packed with change for me.  I moved into a new apartment—the nicest place I’ve ever lived.  As we speak my girlfriend is moving in with me.  Huge changes. 
“Bigger and better things,” is the first phrase that come to mind, though I don’t think that bigger is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/brazen-careerist-launch/</link>
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		<title>An Inauguration Day stranger, Memorial Day promises and the inconvenience of change</title>
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Four months ago, I was sitting in a bar with Ryan and Dan Healy, and Penelope.  It was Inauguration Day.  We watched our country make history swearing in the 44th President of the United States.
The room was a can of sardines, but more optimistic.  Tangled in a motley web of businessmen, congressmen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ryanpaugh.com/memorial-day/</link>
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