Is it my imagination or did the rise of expense-account restaurants purposely building-in conversation-evaporating high-volume noise levels (partly by not building in the architectural elements that muffle them) coincide with the market run-up to 2008?

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Rather, the company should expose and even shine a light on the whole conversation, building trust and loyalty among customers through conversations that occur outside the walls of the company itself, not inside private walled-off forums.

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In the Age of Conversation, people got comfortable building relationships with other people online.

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"We're running like we're a million miles behind, " said Harris, flanked by two campaign aides, in a hurried conversation as she made her way through the Rayburn building.

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Yet success, defined as building audiences, attracting support and making your institution part of the conversation, comes not through architecture but programming, primarily exhibitions and acquisitions.

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We set out on our own during the late afternoon, ambling through yet another dry riverbed, and wound up at the top of a windswept peak at sunset: Lemarti and Boniface building a fire, Trzebinski embracing and whispering to her young daughter, Tacha, relaxed conversation, aperitifs on offer--and a communal sense of wonder.

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