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	<title>The Media Collective - A Midlands Design Agency</title>
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	<description>We are a midlands design agency and production workshop. And this is our blog.</description>
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		<title>A bold new web project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 08:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back at The Media Collective we started to develop an online application that could handle all of our sales and invoicing.  At the time we were using Excel to create everything and it was fast becoming a laborious way of working.  We needed something that would cut down our admin and let us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policies kill trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 09:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we started The Media Collective, over five years ago, we have tried to approach our work in the same way, no matter how large or small the job.  Each project we take on is important to our customer and we recognise that.  When there was just one or two people doing all the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only really a couple of things at the core of what we do; we have ideas and we think about ways to communicate them.  Pretty simple stuff really.  And that&#8217;s why we don&#8217;t think design companies like ours need to be complicated, or pretentious.  Our aim is to give you great design without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing good copy isn&#8217;t easy</title>
		<link>http://www.mediacollective.co.uk/blog/?p=164</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our customers often find that writing the copy for their brochure, website or other such marketing materials is often harder that it first seems.  We thought it might be helpful to share some of our thoughts on how to approach writing your own content.
Know who you are writing to. This may seem obvious but if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send us your old CDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chair made from CDs? It&#8217;s a possibility!
We want your old CDs and DVDs.  There are loads of them around and they don’t recycle that well. But we think we can make something from them. If you have any cluttering up your desk then we will take them off your hands and once we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sneak a peek at our new offices</title>
		<link>http://www.mediacollective.co.uk/blog/?p=150</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out our brand new offices equipped with all the mod-cons. We now have windows! 
The move to our new offices finally completed over Christmas. This was long overdue and much welcome. The extra space has meant we can look at expanding the design team and handle the extra work that keeps coming our way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Hired</title>
		<link>http://www.mediacollective.co.uk/blog/?p=143</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jezcurrin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New Apprentice Started
With our print guy, Josh, now living in South Africa we had to finally concede that the commute was never going to work.  And apparently it&#8217;s way more fun over there; something to do with the sea and sun. We still have him odds on to have an accident with a lion before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So close we can smell it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investing in the future
We are now just weeks away from completing our new office development in Coleshill, Warks.  The new combined office and print workshop, which in a previous life has been both a prisoner of war building and a piggery, will give us the opportunity to expand our capacity, work more efficiently and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expanding to N. Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have recently expanded. Andy has moved and is now working from the coastal town of Portstewart in N. Ireland. It is rather cold and wet but it does have a very nice beach and some excellent ice cream.
He will be carrying on working just the same (with his three screens) whilst picking up a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caludon Castle phase one completes without a hitch</title>
		<link>http://www.mediacollective.co.uk/blog/?p=95</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jezcurrin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have recently been working with Caludon Castle School (Coventry) on a branding project.  The brief was to produce a more corporate brand that would better position them as a Business and Enterprise Specialist School.  After a very involved design and consultation phase the final solution was selected.  The bold new brand is designed to [...]]]></description>
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