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  "title": "Bells & Pixels",
  "home_page_url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com",
  "feed_url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/feed.json",
  "description": "A modern media studio. Writing, podcasts, and video, produced and published as one. Episodic blogging and marketing with Toudai, video and podcast production with Iké.",
  "icon": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
  "language": "en-us",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Bells & Pixels"
    }
  ],
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/attribution-survives-the-crm/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/attribution-survives-the-crm/",
      "title": "Attribution that survives the handoff to the CRM",
      "summary": "A read, a listen, and a watch are only worth what your CRM can see. Here is how engagement reaches a contact record intact.",
      "content_text": "A read, a listen, and a watch are only worth what your CRM can see. Here is how engagement reaches a contact record intact.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-06-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Attribution",
        "CRM",
        "UTM"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/one-idea-three-formats/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/one-idea-three-formats/",
      "title": "One idea, written, spoken, and seen",
      "summary": "Stop maintaining three pipelines. One idea, produced once, published as the post, the podcast, and the video, as a series.",
      "content_text": "Stop maintaining three pipelines. One idea, produced once, published as the post, the podcast, and the video, as a series.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Production",
        "Multi-format",
        "Series"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/someone-elses-asset/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/someone-elses-asset/",
      "title": "Your content is building someone else’s asset",
      "summary": "You produce in three places at once and it all lands on platforms that keep the audience and the data. Here is the case for owning the relationship instead.",
      "content_text": "You produce in three places at once and it all lands on platforms that keep the audience and the data. Here is the case for owning the relationship instead.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Owned media",
        "CRM",
        "Attribution",
        "Strategy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/vibe-coding-how-to-build-mvps-in-days/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/vibe-coding-how-to-build-mvps-in-days/",
      "title": "Vibe Coding: How to Build MVPs in Days",
      "summary": "AI-assisted prototyping makes ideas visible in days, but speed is not value. A Green/Yellow/Red zone framework for where vibe coding belongs, grounded in Gartner Pace-Layering and Microsoft's Power Platform agent governance.",
      "content_text": "AI-assisted prototyping makes ideas visible in days, but speed is not value. A Green/Yellow/Red zone framework for where vibe coding belongs, grounded in Gartner Pace-Layering and Microsoft's Power Platform agent governance.",
      "image": "https://sttoudaiprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/1bcf40f1-d5ee-44d7-9feb-78cf59607ebc/ike-koi-mark.png",
      "date_published": "2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vibe coding",
        "AI-assisted development",
        "AI agents",
        "governance",
        "Power Platform",
        "Pace-Layered Application Strategy",
        "presales",
        "prototyping",
        "technical debt",
        "Microsoft"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/why-you-dont-need-to-train-an-ai-model-to-extract-data-from-your-sales-calls/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/why-you-dont-need-to-train-an-ai-model-to-extract-data-from-your-sales-calls/",
      "title": "Why You Don't Need to Train an AI Model to Extract Data from Your Sales Calls",
      "summary": "You don't train a model to pull budget, timeline, and tech stack from sales calls. You direct a model that already knows them. Here's zero-shot extraction and the JSON bridge that gets that output into Power Automate.",
      "content_text": "You don't train a model to pull budget, timeline, and tech stack from sales calls. You direct a model that already knows them. Here's zero-shot extraction and the JSON bridge that gets that output into Power Automate.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-03-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "AI Builder",
        "Power Automate",
        "Dynamics 365",
        "Dataverse",
        "zero-shot",
        "JSON",
        "CRM automation",
        "applied AI",
        "sales calls"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/your-crm-doesnt-have-a-data-problem-it-has-a-timing-problem/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/your-crm-doesnt-have-a-data-problem-it-has-a-timing-problem/",
      "title": "Your CRM Doesn't Have a Data Problem. It Has a Timing Problem.",
      "summary": "The gap between what was said on a sales call and what lands in your CRM isn't a discipline problem, it's a timing problem. Part 1 of an 8-part series on turning transcripts into structured data with AI Builder and Power Automate.",
      "content_text": "The gap between what was said on a sales call and what lands in your CRM isn't a discipline problem, it's a timing problem. Part 1 of an 8-part series on turning transcripts into structured data with AI Builder and Power Automate.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dynamics 365",
        "CRM",
        "AI Builder",
        "Power Automate",
        "Power Platform",
        "Applied AI",
        "Sales Operations",
        "Talk to Tables"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/timekeeper-agent-consultants-os/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/timekeeper-agent-consultants-os/",
      "title": "Building a Timekeeper Agent: A Consultant's OS on the Microsoft Stack",
      "summary": "A practical blueprint for an automated time-tracking pipeline that funnels Outlook, Notion, and Clockify activity through Power Automate into Ruddr, with a Teams approval step so nothing posts without review.",
      "content_text": "A practical blueprint for an automated time-tracking pipeline that funnels Outlook, Notion, and Clockify activity through Power Automate into Ruddr, with a Teams approval step so nothing posts without review.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Power Automate",
        "Notion",
        "Clockify",
        "Ruddr",
        "Microsoft Stack",
        "Automation",
        "Time Tracking",
        "GitHub Copilot",
        "Consulting Ops"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/free-email-validity-scoring-for-d365-leads/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/free-email-validity-scoring-for-d365-leads/",
      "title": "Free Email Validity Scoring for D365 Leads (MX Check + Simple Heuristics)",
      "summary": "Build a 100% free email validity confidence check for Dynamics 365 / Dataverse leads with Power Automate: MX record lookup plus disposable, free, and role-based heuristics rolled into a 0 to 10 score.",
      "content_text": "Build a 100% free email validity confidence check for Dynamics 365 / Dataverse leads with Power Automate: MX record lookup plus disposable, free, and role-based heuristics rolled into a 0 to 10 score.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Power Automate",
        "Dynamics 365",
        "Dataverse",
        "Lead Qualification",
        "Email Validation",
        "DNS",
        "Power Platform"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-virtual-tables-in-dataverse/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-virtual-tables-in-dataverse/",
      "title": "Understanding Virtual Tables in Dataverse: Seamless External Data Integration",
      "summary": "Virtual Tables let you surface external data inside Dataverse in real time, with zero duplication and no sync jobs. Here is what they are, where they fit, and how to configure one.",
      "content_text": "Virtual Tables let you surface external data inside Dataverse in real time, with zero duplication and no sync jobs. Here is what they are, where they fit, and how to configure one.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2025-04-03T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dataverse",
        "Virtual Tables",
        "Power Platform",
        "Data Integration",
        "OData",
        "Model-Driven Apps"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-dataverse-queues/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-dataverse-queues/",
      "title": "Understanding Dataverse: Queues",
      "summary": "How Dataverse queues act as a shared inbox to organize, assign, and track work items, with public vs. private queues, pick/release actions, and routing patterns for Dynamics 365 sales and service teams.",
      "content_text": "How Dataverse queues act as a shared inbox to organize, assign, and track work items, with public vs. private queues, pick/release actions, and routing patterns for Dynamics 365 sales and service teams.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2025-04-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dataverse",
        "Power Platform",
        "Dynamics 365",
        "Queues",
        "Workflow Automation",
        "Customer Service"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-relationships-in-dataverse/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-relationships-in-dataverse/",
      "title": "Understanding Relationships in Dataverse",
      "summary": "A practical guide to Dataverse relationships: the three core types, cascade behaviors for referential integrity, and design best practices that keep your data model clear and scalable.",
      "content_text": "A practical guide to Dataverse relationships: the three core types, cascade behaviors for referential integrity, and design best practices that keep your data model clear and scalable.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dataverse",
        "Power Platform",
        "Data Modeling",
        "Relationships",
        "Referential Integrity",
        "Dynamics 365"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-the-heart-of-dataverse-your-data-model/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-the-heart-of-dataverse-your-data-model/",
      "title": "Understanding the Heart of Dataverse: Your Data Model",
      "summary": "Why thoughtful entity design is the foundation of everything you build in Dataverse, and a practical walkthrough for creating a custom table that powers cleaner automation, integration, and reporting.",
      "content_text": "Why thoughtful entity design is the foundation of everything you build in Dataverse, and a practical walkthrough for creating a custom table that powers cleaner automation, integration, and reporting.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2025-03-27T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dataverse",
        "Power Platform",
        "Data Modeling",
        "Custom Tables",
        "Microsoft",
        "CRM"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/top-5-dynamics-365-implementation-mistakes/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/top-5-dynamics-365-implementation-mistakes/",
      "title": "Top 5 Dynamics 365 Implementation Mistakes",
      "summary": "The five traps that quietly wreck a Dynamics 365 rollout, from over-customization to treating go-live as the finish line, and the configuration-first, phased, role-based approach that avoids them.",
      "content_text": "The five traps that quietly wreck a Dynamics 365 rollout, from over-customization to treating go-live as the finish line, and the configuration-first, phased, role-based approach that avoids them.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2024-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dynamics 365",
        "CRM",
        "implementation",
        "Power Platform",
        "configuration",
        "phased rollout",
        "agile",
        "automation",
        "user adoption"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-the-employee-lifecycle-automation-tools/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/understanding-the-employee-lifecycle-automation-tools/",
      "title": "Understanding the Employee Lifecycle & Automation Tools",
      "summary": "Before you automate onboarding and offboarding, you need a clear map of the steps and the right Power Platform tools to orchestrate them. Here is the employee-lifecycle blueprint and the five technologies that drive it.",
      "content_text": "Before you automate onboarding and offboarding, you need a clear map of the steps and the right Power Platform tools to orchestrate them. Here is the employee-lifecycle blueprint and the five technologies that drive it.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2024-08-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Power Platform",
        "Power Automate",
        "Dataverse",
        "Employee Lifecycle",
        "Automation",
        "Microsoft Planner",
        "Onboarding",
        "Offboarding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/automating-the-employee-lifecycle-with-power-platform/",
      "url": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/blog/automating-the-employee-lifecycle-with-power-platform/",
      "title": "Automating the Employee Lifecycle with Power Platform",
      "summary": "A step-by-step series on building a fully automated onboarding and offboarding solution on the Microsoft stack: Dataverse, Power Automate, Microsoft Planner, and Approvals, each post paired with a hands-on demo.",
      "content_text": "A step-by-step series on building a fully automated onboarding and offboarding solution on the Microsoft stack: Dataverse, Power Automate, Microsoft Planner, and Approvals, each post paired with a hands-on demo.",
      "image": "https://www.bells-and-pixels.com/brand/bp-logo-color.png",
      "date_published": "2024-07-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason A Bell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Power Platform",
        "Power Automate",
        "Dataverse",
        "Microsoft Planner",
        "Azure AD",
        "Automation",
        "Employee Lifecycle",
        "Onboarding",
        "Offboarding",
        "Approvals"
      ]
    }
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}