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                <title><![CDATA[Advanced Campaign Management - Lead Nurturing and Campaign ROI]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122925:advanced-campaign-management-lead-nurturing-and-campaign-roi</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                                <g:publish_date>2009-12-14</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[A recording from a breakout session at Dreamforce 2009
Learn more about salesforce.com's lead nurturing and campaign ROI functionality, and you'll walk away with practical tips on how to build automation and measure results to improve your marketing effectiveness. Featuring speakers John Kucera from Salesforce.com and Jason Stewart from Demandbase. 
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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Demand Base]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Information/Sales]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Boosting Media Profits Through Advertising Sales Outsourcing]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122935:boosting-media-profits-through-advertising-sales-outsourcing</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122935</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-12-15</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Join Editor & Publisher for this On-Demand Web Seminar, originally recorded on November 17th and sponsored by Classifieds Plus Inc. Hear from newspaper executives and the experts on why outsourcing advertising sales makes sense. ]]></c:value>
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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Attend this online event and learn how to effectively control costs, increase productivity and profits by transferring a costly function to a world class strategic partner.]]></c:value>
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                    <c:daterecorded>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[2009-12-17 00:00:00]]></c:value>
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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Nielson Business Media]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Eric Biener]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Ensuring A Well-Attended Event: How to identify and attract the right audience to your meetings]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122939:ensuring-a-well-attended-event-how-to-identify-and-attract-the-right-audience-to-your-meetings</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122939</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-12-15</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Itâ€™s no secret that attendee acquisition is one of the toughest challenges faced by meeting and conference planners. A great deal of energy and money are expended on identifying the right audience to build usable lists of potential registrants and finding effective ways to market to them.


Attracting the right conference and meeting attendees requires well-targeted campaigns delivered in eye-catching ways. Meeting planners need to understand the attendees, their goals and how they see their roles while attending the event, be it as business professionals, exhibitors, speakers or buyers.


Fortunately for meeting planners, plenty of technology tools are available to automate and streamline the process of identifying, tracking and communicating with attendees. Online registration and data management and analysis tools provide great insight into event participants by facilitating the collection of demographic data and organizing it against established criteria.


Used properly, technology automates functions that would be time-consuming, inefficient and error-prone if done manually. Automation enables the collection and maintenance of higher-quality data that lead to better-targeted marketing campaigns.


The costs of attendee acquisition have been climbing in recent years, so meeting planners need all the help they can get in implementing streamlined, cost-effective attendee-acquisition strategies.]]></c:value>
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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Join Successful Meetings and MeetingNews magazines for this live, interactive Web Seminar, sponsored by the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority, and hear from industry experts how to go about targeting the right audience for your meetings. Attend this online-only event and learn innovative ways to use technology effectively for attendee acquisition.

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                    <c:daterecorded>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[2009-06-09 00:00:00]]></c:value>
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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Nielson Business Media]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Eric Biener]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactemail>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[eric.biener@nielsen.com]]></c:value>
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                <guid>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122867:online-marketing-in-2012-future-trends-in-online-marketing-for-hotel-resorts-and-vacation-rentals</guid>
                <title><![CDATA[Online Marketing in 2012: Future Trends in Online Marketing for Hotel, Resorts and Vacation Rentals]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122867:online-marketing-in-2012-future-trends-in-online-marketing-for-hotel-resorts-and-vacation-rentals</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:39:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122867</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-11-12</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Take 67 minutes to learn where the Internet is going, and what you should start planning for now.

Trent Blizzard, President of Blizzard Internet, offers future predictions on hot topics such as: Pay-Per-Click Marketing, content, video, local search, e-mail marketing, mobile, news, reviews, social, and more.

Consumers are becoming savvier, researching in more places, and your online competition is only getting stronger.

Are you ready to take on the next five years?  Here are some important questions weâ€™ll be reviewing:

Â» What are you doing to increase your Click-Through-Rate (CTR)?
Â» Are you properly managing your online presence?
Â» Are you actively seeking good, qualified links?
Â» Are you updating your site regularly?
Â» What are you doing to deepen your relationship with your guests?
Â» Is your online marketing and advertising budget competitive enough?]]></c:value>
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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Learn what Google wants from you! Donâ€™t miss out on an opportunity that may help put you ahead of your competitors]]></c:value>
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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Blizzard Internet Marketing]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Part 1: Building your foundation for knowledge]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122818:your-road-map-to-customer-centric-retail-marketing</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122818</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-11-09</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Todayâ€™s consumers demand a seamless shopping experience, across all channels, all products and all geographies. We know that retailers that can deliver on this demand are building an expressway to loyal customers. So why are so many retailers missing the on-ramp?

Join us for this complimentary two-part Webinar series and weâ€™ll show you how to generate your road map to a customer-centric model for retail marketing.

Part 1: Building your foundation for knowledge 
Making every customer communication relevant and personalized at every touch-point is nirvana for the customer-centric marketer. Understanding your customers and marketing to them as individuals is a challenging proposition for many retailers. 

During this session, weâ€™ll discuss the five steps to a customer-centric retail marketing plan: 

Methods for creating a holistic view of your customer 
Techniques required to manage and maintain usable customer data 
Processes required to determine true customer value 
Recommendations for using segmentation profiles to execute your integrated multichannel marketing campaigns 
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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Methods for creating a holistic view of your customer 
Techniques required to manage and maintain usable customer data 
Processes required to determine true customer value 
Recommendations for using segmentation profiles to execute your integrated multichannel marketing campaigns 
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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Experianâ€™s Marketing Solutions]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Part 2: Optimizing your efforts for loyalty ]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122819:part-2-optimizing-your-efforts-for-loyalty-</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:36:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122819</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-11-09</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Todayâ€™s consumers demand a seamless shopping experience, across all channels, all products and all geographies. We know that retailers that can deliver on this demand are building an expressway to loyal customers. So why are so many retailers missing the on-ramp?

Join us for this complimentary two-part Webinar series and weâ€™ll show you how to generate your road map to a customer-centric model for retail marketing.

Part 2: Optimizing your efforts for loyalty 
Creating long-term customer loyalty requires changing your operations to support a customer-centric marketing model. In Part 2 of this Webinar, weâ€™ll discuss how to use insight to customer behaviors and attitudes to optimize your marketing efforts. This level of optimization impacts customer loyalty by ensuring the highest level of communication relevance in all of your marketing efforts. During this session, weâ€™ll continue our discussion of the five steps to a customer-centric retail marketing plan, focusing on the following: 

Determining your optimal channel investment using a trade area analysis 
Showing the value of segmentation-driven contact strategies 
Applying household-level segmentation to your media planning strategies ]]></c:value>
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Showing the value of segmentation-driven contact strategies 
Applying household-level segmentation to your media planning strategies ]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Procurement Practices: Managing Change And Demand ]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122936:procurement-practices-managing-change-and-demand-</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122936</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-12-15</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Highlights of original BTN research and travel buyer and consultant experience.
 Procurement Practices: Managing Change And Demand - Highlights of original BTN research and travel buyer and consultant experience
EMAIL | PRINT 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  Featured Speakers 
 
Moderator: Elliot Markowitz 
Editorial Director, Online Events - Nielsen Business Media David Meyer 
Editor-in-Chief, Business Travel News 

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Joanna Martinez 
Chief Procurement Officer, AllianceBernstein Frank Schnur 
Vice President of Innovation in Global Advisory Services - American Express Business Travel 

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Best practices in corporate travel management and procurement practices include: a disciplined approach to measuring qualitative and quantitative external and internal performance; benchmarking to market conditions as well as year-over-year performance; managing demand; and making strategic use of suppliers. Companies applying these principals will be able to better influence traveler behavior and effectively use measurement to gauge impact and stress demand management as a way to ensure essential travel continues.


A growing number of corporations are using sophisticated measures of productivity, quality and serviceâ€”including service-level agreements, key performance indicators and scorecardsâ€”that enhance the effectiveness of travel and meetings expenditures and help to select and evaluate travel service providers. Examining the models of measurement they devise, what they decide to measure and the tools they use to measure it can offer real value to almost any organization. 

Business Travel News, with the continued support of American Express Business Travel, for the third year in a row surveyed procurement and travel executives to measure the expectations they have about their companies' plans for travel and travel spending and examine how companies successfully balance performance measurement techniques with the value of long-term relationships with key travel suppliers. 


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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Join Business Travel News and American Express Business Travel for this live, interactive, Web Seminar and hear from industry experts regarding the benefits and challenges of applying procurement techniques to travel management, with a particular focus on demand management, key performance indicators and outsourcing. Attend this online-only event and learn how other companies successfully have bridged the gap between procurement and travel.


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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Nielson Business Media]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Eric Biener]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactemail>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[eric.biener@nielsen.com]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Transforming Manufacturing Compliance into a Competitive Differentiator]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122820:transforming-manufacturing-compliance-into-a-competitive-differentiator</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122820</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-11-09</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Presenter: 
Louis Columbus, Senior Manager, Cincom Systems

Louis Columbus is a member of the Cincom Manufacturing Business Solutions Team and a former senior analyst with AMR Research. He has worked with enterprise clients on defining solutions to their channel management, order management and service lifecycle management strategies. Mr. Columbus also teaches graduate-level international business and marketing courses at Webster-Loyola Marymount University and University of California, Irvine. He is the author of 15 books on technology and two books on analyst relations. His book, "Getting Results from Your Analyst Relations Strategies," can be downloaded for free.

The high cost of compliance can actually be seen as an investment in becoming more competitive over time. This presentation will outline the recommendation to invest in enterprise-wide complaince strategies first, and not incrementally add in its components, to ensure the highest level of performance is gained. The need for creating an enterprise-wide approach to managing compliance and ensuring auditing data is used to improve processes is also imperative. 

During this webinar, Mr. Columbus will discuss:

the critical success factors for gaining a competitive advantage through an enterprise-wide commitment to quality management 
from non-compliance/corrective action (NC/CA) through auditing, how companies are transforming compliance into a competitive advantage. 
At the conclusion of the presentation you will understand:
Why enterprise-wide compliance management is more of an investment in competitiveness and not just a cost of remaining compliant. More specifically:

What best practices in quality management is all about from actual case studies. 
How companies are using auditing to streamline and make more intelligence purchasing and pricing decisions. 
The development of key success factors for a given business varies from one to the next. 
What the key success factors are in your manufacturing business and how you can make the most of them over time. 
How an integrated manufacturing system must have these functional components to survive the turbulent economic times globally today. 

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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[What best practices in quality management is all about from actual case studies. 
How companies are using auditing to streamline and make more intelligence purchasing and pricing decisions. 
The development of key success factors for a given business varies from one to the next. 
What the key success factors are in your manufacturing business and how you can make the most of them over time. 
How an integrated manufacturing system must have these functional components to survive the turbulent economic times globally today.]]></c:value>
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                    <c:url>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[http://pilgrimsoftware.ondialog.com/webinarmarketdrivencompliance-080609/]]></c:value>
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                    <c:daterecorded>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[2009-10-20 00:00:00]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Marketing Affairs]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactemail>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[CustomerRelations@pilgrimsoftware.com]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Uncover The Challenges And Opportunities Facing Todayâ€™s Retailers]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122940:uncover-the-challenges-and-opportunities-facing-todays-retailers</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
                <g:id>122940</g:id>
                                <g:publish_date>2009-12-16</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[The current volatile economic climate has grocers across the nation facing tough challenges, and also real opportunities. And after more than 75 years of providing the grocery industry with exclusive, insightful research and analysis, Progressive Grocerâ€™s latest Annual Report of the Grocery Industry is more relevant and timely than ever to help grocery store owners and operators successfully navigate through today's tough business environment.


Every year, Progressive Grocer polls its retail audience in depth, and also taps into the robust research data and capabilities of its sister company Nielsen, to create a comprehensive business assessment of the year just past and forecast the year ahead. This year's report emphasizes the wide-ranging impacts of the economy on business and the consumer, and what opportunities this presents to grocers large and small.


Progressive Grocer will showcase the highlights of this research and analysis in a live, interactive Web Seminar, sponsored by NCR, that retailers are invited to attend, learn from, and participate in.
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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Attend this online-only event and hear:


- Discussions of some of the most important data from the report


- Analysis by PGâ€™s editors, retail economists and analysts, and commentary from retailers themselves on the challenges and opportunities


- The vendorsâ€™ perspective on product, pricing, and consumer trends reflected in the Annual Report


Also in the report and topics to be discussed include:


- Retailer's own assessments of performance in 2008 and expectations for 2009


- Key merchandising and marketing strategies for dealing with current realities


- Operational factors


- The latest retail worry lists and assessments of competitive threats


- Consumer behavior


- Pricing and promotion strategies and adjustments


- Trade relations

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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[NCR Retail]]></c:value>
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                    <c:sponsorurl>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[http://www.ncr.com/]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Peter Leav]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactemail>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[info@ncr.com]]></c:value>
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                <title><![CDATA[Where is the "IT" in ITS?]]></title>
                <link>http://www.techlinks.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=186:verticals&amp;id=122868:where-is-the-qitq-in-its</link>
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                <category><![CDATA[Verticals]]></category>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                                <g:publish_date>2009-11-12</g:publish_date>
                                                                    
                    <c:description>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[IT and ITS have a common technical framework and similar technical challenges. As such, practitioners in both fields have much to gain by partnering together. The Oregon and New Hampshire State Departments of Transportation will present their experiences in bringing these different organizational groups together to promote efficient and successful ITS project deployment based on systems engineering principles. Each agency will share their successes, challenges, and lessons learned with the organizational and technical issues these new partnerships engender. Representatives from both agencies will discuss the ways that IT and ITS staff in program offices collaborate to support ITS deployments, making this an informative and interesting session and providing the audience with practical steps for initiating and maintaining collaborative, cross-departmental work partnerships.

This webinar is part of a webinar series on Systems Engineering for ITS projects. Many agencies use their Information Technology group as a source for systems engineering and information technology skills and as a way to build competency across different agency departments
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                    <c:learn>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Understanding of the positive impact on ITS project outcomes derived from collaboration between the agency's IT department and the ITS program office 
Steps that can be implemented to initiate cross-departmental (IT and ITS) collaboration 
Benefits of using systems engineering in the development and management of ITS projects 
Best practices for maintaining cross-departmental collaboration through the project lifecycle ]]></c:value>
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                    <c:url>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s090723/t3_090723_controller.swf]]></c:value>
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                    <c:sponsorname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[RITA & US DOT]]></c:value>
                                            </c:sponsorname>                    
                    <c:sponsorurl>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[http://www.rita.dot.gov/]]></c:value>
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                    <c:contactname>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Kim Riddle]]></c:value>
                                            </c:contactname>                    
                    <c:contactemail>                                                    <c:value><![CDATA[Kim.Riddle@dot.gov]]></c:value>
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