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	<title>The Soft Pitch &#187; Breaking News</title>
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		<title>Kermit Was Wrong – It’s Easy Being Green</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2009/10/23/kermit-was-wrong-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-easy-being-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write about Avnet’s award for the “greening” of its data center, then I saw that one of our IT directors has written about it internally and he has provided a much better write up than I could – so this comes from Bruce Gorshe, IT Director &#8211; Data Center Operations.  The list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hulu vs. YouTube vs. Avnet OnDemand</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2009/04/20/hulu-vs-youtube-vs-avnet-ondemand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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By now you’ve either seen the Hulu commercials, heard the buzz about online video or – more likely – you’ve watched online video (more than 75% of Internet users have) probably to the tune of about 5 hours during February alone – at least that’s according to comScore Video Metrix March 2009. The research company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Arms Win Tech Games Hearts</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2009/04/06/219/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avnet Tech Games drew nearly 200 students this weekend to compete for scholarships in nine different games – a record number of students participated representing colleges and universities from across Arizona &#8212; there was even a team from University of Arizona in Tucson that trekked in for the event!.
 
Winners were announced this morning via press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth is in our DNA – Investing in Asia</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/12/10/growth-is-in-our-dna-%e2%80%93-investing-in-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/12/10/growth-is-in-our-dna-%e2%80%93-investing-in-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now its well into the evening in China and our Avnet Technology Solutions team in Asia is gearing up to execute on the announcement made in Beijing earlier today that Avnet is now going after the solutions distribution business in China. This didn’t get the same splash as our announcement two weeks ago of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Vallee receives NEDA Gail S. Carter Award</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/11/06/roy-vallee-receives-neda-gail-s-carter-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Announced at NEDA&#8217;s conference earlier this week &#8212; 

Atlanta, GA—The National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA) bestowed its highest honor, the Gail S. Carter Award, to Roy Vallee, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Avnet, Inc.  The annual presentation was held during the 2008 NEDA Executive Conference at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Solutions Center, a New Leadership Appointment</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/10/31/a-new-solutions-center-a-new-leadership-appointment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know everyone’s glued to news the economy and US elections, but here’s a couple pieces of Avnet news that might have slipped under the radar.
 
We celebrated the Grand Opening of the Avnet Global Solutions Center this week.  I talked about this earlier when the “big move” was made, bringing inventory and equipment together in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking It To The Streets: The Battle Against Fakes</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/10/17/taking-it-to-the-streets-the-battle-against-fakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/?p=57</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While Al was tending his wounds from the Cubs loss (so sorry Al), I was visiting a small town in Oregon – Ashland. Home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland has about 20,000 people … and the largest Shakespeare Festival in the country (it runs 10 months and draws thousands).  My daughter was on fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We won!</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/09/25/we-won/</link>
		<comments>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/09/25/we-won/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my post “Ahead of the Power Curve”  we won!  Check out the press release:
September 24, 2008 &#8211; Avnet, Inc. Named an Honoree in Computerworld&#8217;s Inaugural &#8220;Best Practices in Green IT&#8221; Awards Program
Avnet Recognized for Its Commitment to Improving Energy Efficiency in Its Data Center
PHOENIX &#8212; Global technology distributor Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expanding the Avnet Footprint – the Never Ending Story</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/09/18/expanding-the-avnet-footprint-%e2%80%93-the-never-ending-story/</link>
		<comments>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/09/18/expanding-the-avnet-footprint-%e2%80%93-the-never-ending-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As VP of PR for Avnet, I often get to hear about great stuff the team is doing around the world before everyone else. Or sometimes I just get a news clip after the fact about something that happened in the UK or India or Malaysia. Either way, almost every day I’m reading something about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahead of the Power Curve</title>
		<link>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/09/05/ahead-of-the-power-curve/</link>
		<comments>http://blogging.avnet.com/weblog/mandablog/2008/09/05/ahead-of-the-power-curve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Gorel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we learned that Avnet has been named as a finalist in Computerworld’s Green IT awards for “Green IT in the Data Center.”  “Green IT in the Data Center.”
 
We’re in with some pretty big company (IBM and Unisys were also named finalists in our category). But just being named a finalist I think shows [...]]]></description>
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