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    <title><![CDATA[Bells & Pixels]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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    <itunes:author>Bells &amp; Pixels</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your content is building someone else’s asset]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[One idea, written, spoken, and seen]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Stop maintaining three pipelines. One idea, produced once, published as the post, the podcast, and the video, as a series.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Attribution that survives the handoff to the CRM]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[A read, a listen, and a watch are only worth what your CRM can see. Here is how engagement reaches a contact record intact.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your CRM Doesn't Have a Data Problem. It Has a Timing Problem.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why You Don't Need to Train an AI Model to Extract Data from Your Sales Calls]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding the Heart of Dataverse: Your Data Model]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding Relationships in Dataverse]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding Dataverse: Queues]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding Virtual Tables in Dataverse: Seamless External Data Integration]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Automating the Employee Lifecycle with Power Platform]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding the Employee Lifecycle & Automation Tools]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Top 5 Dynamics 365 Implementation Mistakes]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vibe Coding: How to Build MVPs in Days]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason A Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Timekeeper Agent: A Consultant's OS on the Microsoft Stack]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free Email Validity Scoring for D365 Leads (MX Check + Simple Heuristics)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Bell]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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