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	<title>Colin Loretz</title>
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	<description>Community builder and hacker</description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to the crazy ones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs was the Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Leonardo Da Vinci of our time. He has inspired, currently inspires and will continue to inspire entrepreneurs and round pegs in square holes everywhere. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/10/heres-to-the-crazy-ones/</link>
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		<title>Building a more informed &amp; engaged city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bob Cashell of The City of Reno has issued a proclamation for Reno&#8217;s first Hack4Reno event. The document does a great job of explaining why Hack4Reno exists and we&#8217;re very excited to be putting on the event. There tends to be some reservations within tech/startup communities to work together with their cities but this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/10/building-a-more-informed-engaged-city/</link>
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		<title>Hack for Change in Reno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reno is about to get hacked, in a good way. Reno Collective has partnered with the City of Reno in order to put on the first Hack4Reno event in downtown Reno. For 24 hours, teams from all over Northern Nevada will set off to build apps, websites, services and tools that help make Reno a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/10/hack-for-change-in-reno/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s get WordPressin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reno-Tahoe WordCamp is in just over a week! This event will sell out so if you haven&#8217;t signed up yet, you can register here. There is a whole lot of awesome planned for the weekend including the WordPress Genius Bar, great speakers, and the opportunity to meet a lot of WordPress users, developers, and designers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/05/lets-get-wordpressin/</link>
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		<title>Your Web App is in my WordPress!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a talk I gave at Las Vegas WordCamp in Fall 2010 on building web app mashups with WordPress and the options available for doing so.]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/05/your-web-app-is-in-my-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Leadhooks: Unbounce and Salesforce Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed to integrate a client&#8217;s landing pages into Salesforce.com and having never used Unbounce before today, I figured we would just add the HTML web-to-lead form into the landing page and the job would be done. Unfortunately, doing so would circumvent Unbounce&#8217;s own forms and compromise any reason for using Unbounce in the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/03/leadhooks-unbounce-and-salesforce-integration/</link>
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		<title>Slides from Reno Collective Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a great regrand opening/anniversary/celebration party last week and we gave a little talk about what we&#8217;ve done so far and where we are going with coworking, innovation and community building in Reno. Check out the slides below.]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/03/slides-from-reno-collective-party/</link>
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		<title>Coworking as a &#8216;Brick and Mortar&#8217; Lean Startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: To vote for Reno Collective in the Lean Startup Challenge, please tweet this article with the hashtag #leanvote65 and your vote will be counted! Thank you for all your support. This post has two purposes. The first is as an entry for the Lean Startup Challenge and secondly, to provide our members and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/03/coworking-as-a-brick-and-mortar-lean-startup/</link>
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		<title>Gamification: Losing the forest for the trees?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve studied motivation and game mechanics as a personal hobby for some time and took a class at UNR on Serious Games, which I&#8217;m pleased to hear has evolved into a minor on Serious Games. In my research, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about reward and value systems, both intrinsic and extrinsic and a big question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/03/gamification-losing-the-forest-for-the-trees/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Becoming a Better Writer&#8217; Status Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really enjoying 750words.com for writing my daily entries. My stats as of today: &#8220;Colin Loretz has written a total of 6,393 words and completed 8 days.&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard that it takes about 22 days for something to become a habit. It&#8217;s been only 9 days since I made my goal of writing everyday and I ended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://colinloretz.com/2011/03/becoming-a-better-writer-status-update/</link>
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