Owners of existing paper-based trade publications or terrestrial conferences be forewarned.

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Another issue is that news articles are often based on press releases and press conferences, and published by the media without verifying or contrasting the sources.

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This in mind, the fluid dynamics of the college football conference landscape feel a bit like the promotion and relegation dynamics explained above as college programs are moving and conferences may be expanding or dying based on historic performance and their marketability.

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The new Cleantech industry has a firm footing in Michigan, and in fact the thought leaders in the world, the Cleantech Venture Network based just north of Ann Arbor, is the group holding conferences all over the world (U.S., China, Toronto, Germany, France) to create financial markets for this new industry.

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If the A-10 indeed earns five bids, that could possibly tie it for third among all conferences, behind just the Big East and Big Ten, based on some current (and of course ever-changing) projections.

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So Al and Jim built a cloud-based application that centralized the myriad tools that salespeople use, such as email, CRM systems, web conferences, PowerPoint decks, videos, PDFs and so on.

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