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    <title type="text">Free Range Studios | Washington, DC | Oakland, CA | Atom Feed</title>
    <subtitle type="text">Free Range works with companies and organizations to create story-based brands, transforming clients’ visions for a better future into emotionally compelling media — from interactive and mobile to print and video.</subtitle>
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    <updated>2012-05-14T13:43:45Z</updated>
    <rights>Copyright (c) 2012, Free Range Studios | Washington, DC | Oakland, CA</rights>
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      <title><![CDATA[We&#8217;re Looking for a Few Good Eggs]]></title>
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      <published>2012-05-07T19:46:39Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-09T07:39:40Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Jonah Sachs</name>
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    <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[25 Years of Social Venture Network]]></title>
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      <published>2012-04-27T13:46:44Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-14T13:43:45Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Amy Hartzler</name>
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	<![CDATA[What happens when 250 of the most innovative, passionate, resourceful social entrepreneurs get together for four days, at Skamania Lodge in the awesome Pacific Northwest? Stimulating conversations. Inspiring presentations. Actionable advice. And a lot of laughter.   Not much sleep.]]>
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    <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[Instagram to the Rescue!]]></title>
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      <published>2012-04-11T16:20:23Z</published>
      <updated>2012-04-12T07:03:24Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Ellen Roche</name>
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	<![CDATA[Instagram may have saved my sanity.

A lifelong fear of flying and my spirit of adventure found me traveling cross country earlier this month by rail from DC to a Free Range retreat in Oakland. My 8-day-round-trip trek took me through sixteen states and all nine circles of Hell. I'm only mildly exaggerating when I say that Instagram salvaged my sanity. ]]>
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    <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[SXSW 2012 Recap]]></title>
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      <published>2012-03-28T15:29:06Z</published>
      <updated>2012-03-28T14:14:07Z</updated>
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            <name>Brandon Schmittling</name>
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	<![CDATA[What's it like attending SXSW in Austin, TX? I think my friend, Kyle Evans of Bloom Foundry, said it best: It's like being hit in the head with a rainbow. For two weeks, members of Free Range attended panels, keynote speeches and met one-on-one with artists, technologist and futurists. Here's a summary of what I encountered during my time in this incredible, intellectual warp zone.]]>
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      <title><![CDATA[More questions than answers: Kony 2012]]></title>
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      <published>2012-03-15T15:39:00Z</published>
      <updated>2012-04-24T08:13:02Z</updated>
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            <name>Erica Priggen</name>
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	<![CDATA[It’s been fascinating to observe the phenomenon that is Kony 2012. Here at Free Range, we’re no stranger to being asked to make media that will ‘go viral.’ Our response over the years has been that there is no guaranteed recipe for big numbers on a video campaign. What you can do is make sure you’ve got a solid idea/story/message, a clear understanding of your target audience, an action step or ‘ask,’ a great outreach plan to pound the ‘ether-pavement’ and get folks ready for your launch, and a sense of the zeitgeist.]]>
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    <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[Learning to Live the Truth]]></title>
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      <published>2012-02-05T19:33:01Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-11T13:59:02Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Melissa Roberts</name>
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	<![CDATA[I've been following the Susan G. Komen/Planned Parenthood debacle with interest. Komen’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood programs — and the subsequent decision to allow them to re-apply for funding, with no guarantee that they'll actually receive it — reads like a study in how NOT to make organizational decisions.

At Free Range we believe positive change happens when organizations speak the truth — and live it. The cardinal sin Komen has committed is their failure to live their values, putting women’s health above politics. If the leaders at Komen were really living their truth, they would have never considered pulling their funding for programs that provide free cancer screenings to women across the country. ]]>
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      <title><![CDATA[Winning the Story Wars — Our Upcoming Book]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-23T15:40:53Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-03T07:41:54Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Jonah Sachs</name>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Free Range Rebrand: Designing Our Story]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-20T15:37:57Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-03T07:38:58Z</updated>
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            <name>Amy Hartzler</name>
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	<![CDATA[These days everyone is talking about telling stories — which is great, because we’ve been refining our storytelling methodology for the last 13 years. But the sudden popularity has also challenged us to define what that really means, as our once-esoteric field has become more crowded. Nearly a year ago today, we recognized that we needed to rebrand. 

We knew we couldn’t build a coherent brand without a deep understanding of how we do what we do, and why. We needed to unpack the magic and the science behind our work, and we needed a new story to define what it means to be makers of media that creates a more positive future. And each of our new brand expressions, from an updated logo to this website, needed to reinforce that story.]]>
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    <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[10 Tips for Successful Brainstorming]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-19T15:42:00Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-03T07:43:01Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Drew Beam</name>
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      <title><![CDATA[Our Toughest Client]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-19T15:39:34Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-03T07:39:35Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Liz Kuehl</name>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tech Trends: 2012 the Year of the (Android) Tablet]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-18T15:48:54Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-23T15:32:55Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Stoyan Vasilev</name>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reflections on Occupy]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-12T16:24:24Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-23T14:47:25Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Erica Priggen</name>
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	<![CDATA[We had just moved into our new office a few weeks earlier. Downtown Oakland was now our home, and Free Range was nested solidly into the grid of concrete, alive with dozens of restaurants, a BART station, the newly renovated Fox Theater, big bank offices and Frank Ogawa plaza just a few streets south. A small group of us headed out to the first Occupy Oakland protest on a drizzly afternoon, before any tents had even been set up.]]>
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    <entry>
      <title><![CDATA[From 19th Street to 19th Street]]></title>
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      <published>2012-01-12T15:42:43Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-03T07:42:45Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Eric Smith</name>
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	<![CDATA[Last summer I represented Free Range as a judge in The American Institute of Graphic Arts’ national design competition “365: Design Effectiveness.” When I walked through the glass door of AIGA’s storied headquarters on lower Fifth Avenue, in a sense it was like coming home.]]>
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