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Video: BLU Lesson 5: How I discovered blogging by David Gurteen
One of six BLU lessons on how I discovered blogging and its applicability to knowledge management by David Gurteen.
In April 2005, BLU, the UK's Business Link University which no longer exists hired Fifty Lessons to produce a series of video stories for them to which I (David Gurteen) was invited to contribute. This is one of those stories.
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