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		<title>Trip to blogosphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing is a very broad topic with plenty of controversial topics, inevitably there plenty of people who have something to say about it. Chances are if you are interested in this subject you run across articles and posts by Outsourcing Institute or Horses for Sources. A couple years ago I put a few references in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=1376&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bidding Sites and Building Frustration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I put an RFP out for a very specific set of SEO activities on one of bidding sites. This SEO project was for my darling app – WWHOW!.  Since WWHOW! is based on user generated content it offers serious SEO challenges. Having spent a few months fighting those I knew fairly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=964&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spam Attack</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/06/17/spam-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago we went through upgrade of anti-spam software we use in-house. The Bayesian filter database got corrupted during the upgrade or possibly before it and for some reasons we could not restore it from backups. After much ado we decided to start anew. Software upgrade was quite impressive and new filters reduced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=917&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Launching Common Sense Management</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/05/14/launching-common-sense-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a bit of time cleaning up the Site Map and while doing that I noticed that some of the posts have only loose relevance to outsourcing. I put them in a new category – Common Sense Management (CSM). CSM is not a widely used or a popular term. I started using it awhile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=892&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Blog Format a Misfit for PO?</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/04/03/is-blog-format-a-misfit-for-po/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was chatting with a good friend of mine who happened to be one of my readers as well. Being a good friend he did not sugar coat his thoughts and opinions, as they say &#8220;friends stub you in front&#8221;. And, as it typically goes, when we were done fighting we only strengthen our positions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=835&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing Down, no Intentions to Stop</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/03/24/slowing-down-no-intentions-to-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month has been exceptionally busy for me and I had almost no time to put against anything but my day job, unsurprisingly so my blogging debt started to grow at a pretty good pace. There were a plenty of articles published in the blogs I follow, many industry news worth discussion knocked on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=792&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Car Invasion vs. Offshore Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/03/05/japanese-car-invasion-vs-offshore-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/03/05/japanese-car-invasion-vs-offshore-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1950s a small number of Americans began purchasing foreign cars after military personnel brought home unique vehicles at the end of their tours overseas. At roughly the same time the Japanese, in need of cash to re-build their country after World War II, went from exporting cheap household products and novelty items [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=754&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Millionaire</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/02/23/offshore-millionaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very much surprised with Slumdog Millionaire taking Oscar’s Gold. As far as I am concerned it’s very much a mediocre tearjerker with a few very good scenes, plenty of mediocre ones and few ones on a border line of plagiarism. If you are at all interested in what slums are rent the City [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=728&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 Random Things that Can Hurt You</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/02/06/25-random-things-that-can-hurt-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening disclaimer – this post has zero relevance to offshore outsourcing, so proceed at your own risk ;) I put it here as this site gives me a chance to reach out to the audience I respect and hopefully stop some of people you know from hurting themselves… A couple days ago a friend of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=675&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking off a Body Language Discussion</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/01/29/kicking_off_a_body_language_discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been planning on putting together a few posts on body language for quite some time now. This topic is exceptionally important in any business / environment. The knowledge and understanding of body language is essential to any kind of communications, and when it comes to negotiations, conflict resolution, dealing with difficult people it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=652&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Satyam Chairman Admits Huge Fraud</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2009/01/07/satyam-chairman-admits-huge-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Satyam Chief Admits Huge Fraud &#8230; wow, you do not see those thing so often, and you wish you never did. I guess that puts Satyam’s chairman, Ramalinga Raju in the big league side by side with Madoff. I have done a lot of business with Satyam and am quite saddened by the news. Actually, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=533&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing in the Light of Bribe Payers Index</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/19/outsourcing-in-the-light-of-bribe-payers-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have someone offered you some funny smelling incentive package to close an offshoring deal? You may not be alone&#8230;  I just run across an interesting article, not specific to offshore outsourcing but very relevant though. Bribe Paying Export Countries by Daniel Workman talks about some unusual stats &#8211; &#8220;The 2008 Bribe Payers Index ranks the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=506&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing L10N, G11N and i18n</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/19/outsourcing-l10n-g11n-and-i18n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read an interesting article somewhat related to offshore on China success stories; while widely promotional and hardly unbiased that site offers great insight which could prove invaluable to those planning to outsource to China. The article Mind The Gap – Localization in China is about localization (L10N using common development lingo) and in particular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=501&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Trends for ‘09</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/18/outsourcing-trends-for-%e2%80%9809/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned earlier in ‘08 &#8211; the Year of Predictions it’s difficult to not to yield the temptation of making predictions. First, in the uncertainty of today’s economy almost every one is looking for those; second, all of us with strong opinions on the outsourcing have some predictions at least in our minds; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=497&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8217;08 &#8211; the Year of Predictions</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/17/08-the-year-of-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[End of year is usually also the busiest time of the year… unless it’s 2008. Moving deals across the finish line, inking contracts, pushing code into production to meet contractual obligations and milestones, writing employee performance reviews … there are fewer of those this year. Well, many of us are still extremely busy, it’s what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=493&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still looking for &#8217;09 Predictions?</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/15/still-looking-for-09-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, what could be a clearer confirmation of outsourcing trends than a mega deal signed just before the end of the year? Infosys just signed a multi-million dollar, five-year outsourcing deal with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. A brief article in InformationAge says “The deal will be seen as both an endorsement of the Indian IT industry&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=477&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mumbai Sad Nomination</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/12/470/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting and very important aspect of selecting an outsourcing destination is the location safety.  And it is quite different from what it used to be just a few years ago.  The recent terror in Mumbai brought a lot of attention to the subject and put Mumbai in the top ten riskiest places.    Here is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=470&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 out 4 IT jobs moving offshore</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/11/1-out-4-it-jobs-moving-offshore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Large companies are accelerating their use of offshore outsourcing, and as many as a quarter of IT jobs at Global 1,000 firms may be moved offshore by 2010, according to The Hackett Group, a Miami-based consulting firm whose clients include many multinational corporations.  See  Survey: One in four IT jobs moving offshore from www.computerworld.com And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=449&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner&#8217;s Top 30</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/12/11/gartners-top-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Krym</dc:creator>
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		<title>Mumbai terrorist attacks</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticoutsourcing.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-terrorist-attacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never during my visits to Mumbai I had a chance to stay in Taj Mahal; it was always booked solid. I am sure I won’t be staying in that symbol of luxury any time soon. As a matter of fact, I am not sure it will be as high in demand as it was for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticoutsourcing.com&#038;blog=4587662&#038;post=421&#038;subd=nkrym&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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