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		<title>Bike the Byways of the Adirondack Region in Northern New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Visibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scenic Byways]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holmes &#38; Associates developed this regional branding effort that uses the framework of 15 Scenic Byways to better inform the pubic on the region&#8217;s wide diversity of bicycling opportunities. Using a WordPress theme from StudioPress, the Bike the Byways website provides a tremendous amount of information in an attractive, easy-to-use format. Features include over 400 <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/bike-the-byways/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=540&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Northeastern Vine Supply &#8211; West Pawlet VT</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/ne-vine-supply-west-pawlet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 04:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just one more example of the agricultural renaissance in the NE &#38; New England - Northeastern Vine Supply in West Pawlett, Vermont<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=498&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bike Rodeo &#8211; Saranac Lake</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/bike-rodeo-saranac-lake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Come to the Bicycle Rodeo in Saranac Lake Saturday, May 21, 2011:  10 AM – Noon Saranac Lake Civic Center Featuring: Safety Course Bicycle Helmets Mechanic  from Placid Planet Bicycles Bicycle Raffle Refreshments inside the Civic Center &#8211; so Rain or Shine! Supported by: Kiwanis Club of Saranac Lake Saranac Lake Police Benevolent Association Saranac <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/bike-rodeo-saranac-lake/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=474&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration &amp; Coordinated Planning &#8211; a Marketing Strategy for Adirondack Communities</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/collaboration-and-coordinated-planning-a-marketing-strategy-for-adirondack-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scenic Byways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adirondack Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bicycle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, the Adirondack North Country Association published a unique tourism study for the Adirondack Region &#8211; its focus is the region&#8217;s Scenic Byways and its method was a intercept survey of randomly selected visitors to the Adirondacks &#8211; basically stopping people on the sidewalk, in museums, at ferry stops, and at train stations &#8211; <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/collaboration-and-coordinated-planning-a-marketing-strategy-for-adirondack-communities/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=448&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Online Visibility</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/improving-online-visibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Visibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 3/16/11, Tim Holmes of Holmes &#38; Associates and Andy Tinti of Adworkshop presented a 2.5 hour training session at Clarkson’s Adirondack Business Center in Saranac Lake. The seminar stressed four key areas where the small business should focus a majority of their activity with free online marketing tools:  geo-location, images, blogging software and social <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/improving-online-visibility/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=393&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustain Brand &#8211; Malone&#8217;s Local Food Producer</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/sustain-brand-malones-local-food-producer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had the opportunity this week to meet with Shawn and Craig of Sustain Brand in Malone.  The two young men returned home to the Adirondacks to build and grow a manufacturing and distribution business that uses local agricultural products as its raw material.  That&#8217;s a small business development story that could be the beginning of <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/sustain-brand-malones-local-food-producer/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=373&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dewey Mtn Fundraising with the Hammer Down</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/dewey-mtn-fundraising-with-hammer-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dewey Mountain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fundraising to build a cross-country ski lodge is reaching new heights in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. Bill Demong &#8211; 2010 Olympic Nordic Combined Gold and Silver Medalist &#8211; grew up racing on the Dewey Mountain ski trails near Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains.  Now a campaign is underway to replace Dewey’s <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/dewey-mtn-fundraising-with-hammer-down/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=336&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search the Adirondack Scenic Byways</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/search-adirondack-scenic-byways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scenic Byways]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent addition of Google Custom Search to ANCA&#8217;s Adirondack Scenic Byways website provides another option for finding points of interest among the 63 communities and more than 600 historic, cultural and natural resources. Search the Adirondack Scenic Byways Only three of the 13 Adirondack North Country region&#8217;s Scenic Byways are featured on AdirondackScenicByways.org at <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/search-adirondack-scenic-byways/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=288&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morels in the Forest – A review of four essays in The Great Experiment in Conservation, Voices from the Adirondack Park*</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-great-experiment-in-conservation-a-review-of-selected-essays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book & Essay Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morels in the Forest - 4 Essay Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adirondack Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[review by Tim Holmes As a compilation of 34 essays on just about as many issues, this new contribution to the Adirondack literature is a literary conference on the Adirondack Park with presentations by many of the Adirondack’s most informed researchers and observers. With authors such as Charles Canham on forestry issues, Chad Dawson on <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-great-experiment-in-conservation-a-review-of-selected-essays/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=173&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Camps and Conservation, by Craig Gilborn* &#8211; a review</title>
		<link>http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/great-camps-and-conservation-by-craig-gilborn-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1. Great Camps and Conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[as reviewed by Tim Holmes By placing the history of Great Camps in the context of conservation, Craig Gilborn is able to use his historical and architectural expertise to explore and illuminate the pivotal role that the Great Camp estates played in conserving the Adirondack landscape that we appreciate today.  When he began his study <a href="http://adkresearch.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/great-camps-and-conservation-by-craig-gilborn-a-review/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adkresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10158246&amp;post=181&amp;subd=adkresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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