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	<title>Dragan Varagic Blog</title>
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	<description>About e-Marketing, e-Business, Online PR and Online Sales.</description>
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		<title>Edgios.com: Distributed Search Engine - Yet another Google Killer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edgios.com is new kind of distributed search engine, or peer-to-peer search engine, which will be soon introduced to millions of Web users.

P2P Search, Distributed Search, Community Search = User Base!
Distributed search engine concept is not new, I read some posts about this approach to Web search four years ago, and my opinion about it that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/66/edgioscom-distributed-search-engine-yet-another-google-killer</link>
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		<title>BlogOpen, Bor, Serbia - October 04-05</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About This Fall’s BlogOpen, Bor, Serbia
When: October 4–5 2008.
Where: Bor, Brestovačka banja
This fall’s BlogOpen is a regional friendly and professional meeting of bloggers which has, since last fall, been on the calendar of regular annual meetings of all the participants in blogosphere: authors, readers, IT workers and mainstream media.
Goals:
1. Discussion about the topics and problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/65/blogopen-bor-serbia-october-04-05</link>
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		<title>Are Online Influencers Use Offline Relationship to Spread Their Influence?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a significant number of different reactions related to recent study “When did we start trusting strangers&#8230;” by Universal McCann.
When the study is observed through the organizational communication level, there are the strong evidences related to the proliferation of less controllable online communication environment, through the significant rise of new “super influencers”.
“In Brazil a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/64/are-online-influencers-use-offline-relationship-to-spread-their-influence</link>
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		<title>Top 100 European Marketing, Media &#038; PR Blogs in English Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently found the compilation of AdAge Power 150 list, with the Marketing, Media &#038; PR blogs from Europe. The compilation can be found on Nick Burcher blog, Getinternationalclients.com and Andrew Grill blog.
Interestingly, some people thought that I am from Russia, but I am from Serbia  
I did not post new articles on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/63/top-100-european-marketing-media-pr-blogs-in-english-language</link>
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		<title>Blogs and the Influence Metrics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is my presentation on Glocal 2.0 conference which is overview of some of the recent  tries to define blog and social media influence metrics.
I am very glad that the Robin Hamman from BBC has the post about my presentation. He has one of the several most influential blogs about journalism in UK.
I can only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/62/blogs-and-the-influence-metrics</link>
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		<title>BusinessWeek: Reputation Management Services Industry = SEO &#038; SMO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Tozzi from Business Week, practically declared Online Reputation Management Services as the industry itself, recently through the article &#8220;Do Reputation Management Services Work?&#8221; and the interview with John Battelle.
As the value-added content for the mentioned article, there are the 12 slides covering the management of a company&#8217;s online reputation, where is very clear that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/61/online-reputation-management-service-social-media-optimization</link>
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		<title>Brutal Force of the Influential Bloggers! Do You have a good Comments Experience With Them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I thought that it would be interesting to find out how the most influential bloggers related to e-marketing and online PR subject, perceive &#8220;conversations&#8221; on their own blogs. In other words, is it easy to post the comment on their blogs, and what are the benefits of posting comments on the most influential blogs.
Today, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/60/brutal-force-influence-bloggers</link>
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		<title>Social Media Optimization and the Brand/Reputation Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is about how to put the brand positioning (brand awareness and brand recognition) in the context of online reputation management and social media optimization activities. In addition, there is the separation of SMO activities on the technical and communication level of online engagement.
To achieve the strategic approach for the implementation of social media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/59/social-media-optimization-and-the-brandreputation-management</link>
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		<title>Is SEO Business More Than 90 Percent the Publicity Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Hendison have a very interesting article about current state of link building, and he actually talks about that the best SEO technique is – publicity!
It is not a SEO business anymore, and it was not ever.
From the time Google came on the spot, there was the three part SEO business practice: on-site optimization (HTML/URL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/58/seo-business-is-more-than-90-percent-the-publicity-business</link>
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		<title>Study: Communications Professionals on New Influensers and Theirs PR Profession Impact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The study &#8220;New Media, New Influencers and Implications for the Public Relations Profession&#8221; was conducted by a team of Fellows of the Society for New Communications Research, from September 2007 - November 2007.
Survey Methodology and Sample

The population of interest was “social media power users,” i.e., communications professionals with a deep knowledge and heavy usage pattern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://draganvaragic.com/blog/index.php/54/online-influensers-sncr-study</link>
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