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		<title>Management Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management: In various posts, I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to directly manage staff members. ESPN Digital Media: Managed daily staff of up to six content and video editors, coordinating daily coverage CoachesAid.com: Managed staff of five full-time editors and large stable of freelance writerrs, photographers and other contributors MassLive.com: Manage office&#8217;s internship department, coordinating offseason planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlarsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6103061&amp;post=238&amp;subd=benlarsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization &amp; Social Media Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Longform Writing Style: &#8216;A Story of Survival&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unpublished &#124; Contact for rights SPRINGFIELD – Fate, perhaps. Divine intervention, maybe. Whatever you call it, it was necessary. Springfield Central football coach Valdamar T. Brower knows that much. “It,” of course, is the link between the coach and one of his players. This link, though, goes beyond what the normal coach-player relationship consists of. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlarsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6103061&amp;post=61&amp;subd=benlarsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UMass lacrosse preview for InsideLacrosse.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently began writing for InsideLacrosse.com on a freelance basis. My first piece was a preview on the 2011 UMass lacrosse team. UMass head coach Greg Cannella believes that regardless of Division, leadership is the key for any lacrosse team. As Cannella&#8217;s Minutemen (ranked No. 15 in the Face-Off Yearbook) begin final preparations for their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlarsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6103061&amp;post=186&amp;subd=benlarsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to let everyone know that I&#8217;ve recently launched my own web design and hosting service. My goal is to appeal to small businesses and organizations to help create or improve their presence on the web in a number of ways. Feel free to check out my web site here: http://larsencreativemedia.com. I just finished [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benlarsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6103061&amp;post=139&amp;subd=benlarsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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