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	<title>CouchSurfing Alaska Collective Blog</title>
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	<description>from Alaska to the World</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Looking beyond Alaska</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/looking-beyond-alaska</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/looking-beyond-alaska#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Alaska Collective is in its final days. People are packing up, cleaning has started and others are still hammering away at their computers to finish off projects. So as this Collective draws to a close, its only appropriate that we share what is next for CouchSurfing.

This year, with both the Thailand Collective and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CS Tech Release 5 - Eagle</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/cs-tech-release-5-eagle</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/cs-tech-release-5-eagle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hanna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

The CS Tech team has put out the final release of the Alaska Collective.&#160; Included in this release:
Features &#38; Fixes
General 
• Menu options on each page are now centered.    • Removed some old links from the footer of the website.     • Front page picture has changed.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CS Tech Release 4 - Denali</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/cs-tech-release-4-denali</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/cs-tech-release-4-denali#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hanna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Team]]></category>

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&#160;
For the fourth release, these are the changes that have gone live on the site today! 
New features:     A new chat system has been created! Check it out at www.couchsurfing.com/chat.html
Volunteer team tools:
Verification team can see links to all regions of outgoing letters at the top of the screen instead of clicking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CouchSurfing News Channels - Coming Soon!</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/the-couchsurfing-news-channels-coming-soon</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/the-couchsurfing-news-channels-coming-soon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Member Communications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of effort is occurring in the background by volunteers working remotely and at the Alaska Collective to establish our very first centralized news page on the site.
Members on the Communications Team are creating guidelines and preparing for the launch of this news page, including developing all the technical specifications for our Tech Team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Swatting Begin</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/let-the-swatting-begin</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/let-the-swatting-begin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hanna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Bug week has begun. The CS Tech Team is working hard this week to eliminate as many bugs as possible from the system. They started yesterday, and have fixed an impressive number of bugs already.
List of bugs fixes as of this post after the jump.

CS2 - 2008 Alaska Bug Week     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caribou Tech Release</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/caribou-tech-release</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/caribou-tech-release#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hanna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The CouchSurfing tech team has just released their third update of the Alaska Collective. Dubbed “Caribou” after the animal and the Alaskan town, this release adds functionality across the site. 
Some of the most noticeable changes have been made to the reference system. 
Here are the changes you’ll see:

Simply Positive, Neutral or Negative! 

We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska CSC Talent Show [Video]</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/alaska-csc-talent-show-video</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/alaska-csc-talent-show-video#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case it is not clear by now, there is not much “nightlife” out here in Homer, Alaska, save for really bad costume karaoke, playing pool at a scrubby but charming pub, bonfires with Chubby Bunny contests, Scrabble, “Netflix Night”, and the hot tub. Therefore, we at the Collective have to be very creative about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are We?</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/who-are-we</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/who-are-we#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hanna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Member Communications]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Membership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our goals at this collective is to enhance the user experience of a CouchSurfer. A general goal, but an important one none the less. When we began discussing different ways to accomplish this goal, we realized that we only had a vague impression of who CouchSurfers were. Sure, from profile polling we could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Team Alaska Collective &#8211; Release #2</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/tech-team-alaska-collective-release-2</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/tech-team-alaska-collective-release-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hanna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tech Team has released their second tech brief of the collective. This is a culmination of the work of many people, both here at the collective and in remote teams around the world. 
View Tech Release #2
Thanks much to everyone involved for making this possible!
]]></description>
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		<title>Ready, Aim, Blitz</title>
		<link>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/ready-aim-blitz</link>
		<comments>http://blog.couchsurfing.com/alaska/ready-aim-blitz#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Homer late Sunday, and am excited to again be a part of the Collective atmosphere: the productivity, the camaraderie, and the inspiration of volunteering alongside so many driven professionals who are devoting their time to this project. The setting here is absolutely stunning&#8211;who wouldn&#8217;t want to look out over snow-capped mountains when [...]]]></description>
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