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		<title>Thoughts on today&#8217;s news</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/17/thoughts-on-todays-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/17/thoughts-on-todays-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nortel News]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[VoIP / Unified Communictions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[earnings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MEN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Z]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning Nortel issued this press release with two significant pieces of news:

Nortel has announced the intention to divest its Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business.
Nortel has announced a preliminary view on 3Q08 results (ending Sept 30), and revised its full-year 2008 outlook.

After listening in on Mike Z and Pavi Binning&#8217;s conference call on the news, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 blog posts of the week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/13/top-5-blog-posts-of-the-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/13/top-5-blog-posts-of-the-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Top5]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week I do a quick post on the top 5 most read Nortel blog posts for the week &#8212; not just on Buzzboard, but across all Nortel blogs &#8212; to give you a quick view to what the broad Nortel readership thought was interesting reading over the past week.
Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s list:

John Roese&#8217;s blog: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video contest: We have a winner</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/12/video-contest-we-have-a-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/12/video-contest-we-have-a-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energyad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EnergyEfficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post&#8217;s poll. We have a winner.
Over the past few weeks we have let you, our faithful readers, vote on which of five videos best conveyed our energy efficiency message.  Three of the videos were &#8220;homemade&#8221; by some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video contest: One that missed the cut</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/11/video-contest-one-that-missed-the-cut/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/11/video-contest-one-that-missed-the-cut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[energyad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EnergyEfficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post&#8217;s poll. Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve shown you two new Nortel TV commercials, as well as three really well-done videos on energy efficiency that were &#8220;homemade&#8221; by a few talented Nortel employees.  But the response from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffing the ballot box</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/05/stuffing-the-ballot-box/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/05/stuffing-the-ballot-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[energyad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EnergyEfficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post&#8217;s poll.It&#8217;s been over a decade since I last studied Statistics in college, but I still remember a few things from it (no matter how much I&#8217;d like to forget everything about that class).  One thing I know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video contest: Two new Nortel commercials</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/03/video-contest-two-new-nortel-commercials/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/09/03/video-contest-two-new-nortel-commercials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[EnergyEfficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post&#8217;s poll.Last week here on Buzzboard, we showed you three employee-created, &#8220;homemade&#8221; videos that all used unique ways to get across Nortel&#8217;s energy efficiency message.  If you didn&#8217;t get to see any of the employee videos, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Nortel blog posts of the week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/30/top-5-nortel-blog-posts-of-the-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/30/top-5-nortel-blog-posts-of-the-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week on Friday or Saturday, I&#8217;ll do a quick post on the top 5 most read Nortel blog posts for the week.  This won&#8217;t just be a list of Buzzboard posts, but across all Nortel blogs hosted on nortel.com.
The goal is to give you a quick view to what the broad Nortel readership thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Jerry Boezel of Nortel Global Services</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/29/guest-post-jerry-boezel-of-nortel-global-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/29/guest-post-jerry-boezel-of-nortel-global-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Corporate / Executives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boezel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Nortel announced several new customer wins including significant services-led deals.  If you follow this blog, you&#8217;ve heard me highlight multiple times the corporate focus (led by Mike Z) on turning Nortel into a software and services leader.
With this week&#8217;s customer wins, all of which relied heavily on consulting and other support services, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catch-up on the Nortel video contest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/29/catch-up-on-the-nortel-video-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/29/catch-up-on-the-nortel-video-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the U.S. and Canada we have a long weekend coming up with a Monday holiday, which also means a drop in readership the Friday before (which is today).  So we’ll pick up the next post for this contest on Tuesday after the holiday break.
If you haven&#8217;t been following contest, now is a great chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3 of the video contest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/28/day-3-of-the-video-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/2008/08/28/day-3-of-the-video-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Gowan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.nortel.com/buzzboard/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days and two employee-created, &#8220;homemade&#8221; videos on energy efficiency.  In case you missed our previous posts on this contest, here&#8217;s the post on the first video - the Nortel Robot.  And here&#8217;s the post on the second video - Socks and Sandals.  For a quick summary of the overall campaign/contest, visit the contest home [...]]]></description>
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