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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Kent Valentine</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/kent_valentine/atom.aspx</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/kent_valentine/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/kent_valentine/atom.aspx" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="2.1.61129.2">Community Server</generator><updated>2008-02-14T10:17:00Z</updated><entry><title>Me?  Blog?</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/kent_valentine/archive/2008/02/14/me-blog.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/kent_valentine/archive/2008/02/14/me-blog.aspx</id><published>2008-02-14T16:17:00Z</published><updated>2008-02-14T16:17:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing:0.0px;"&gt;What could a sales type possibly contribute to the Dovetail blog space that would be even remotely helpful?  Nothing!  I mean, who wants to read a bunch of useless hyperbole about our software and services?  This is smart guy turf, right? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;min-height:14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing:0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing:0.0px;"&gt;Well... that was my mindset until recently when &lt;i&gt;someone&lt;/i&gt; here suggested (for the second time in a more forceful tone) that I start blogging.  So I grudgingly put some thought to what I might write and it turns out I think I can actually contribute.  My 4+ years here have yielded a few good (and only slightly embellished) war stories, so hopefully they’ll be helpful as more companies look to Dovetail for relieving Clarify pain.  More soon...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=11017" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>kvalentine</name><uri>http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/members/kvalentine.aspx</uri></author></entry></feed>