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Cowalytics?  Find out how a company uses a great way to increase milk yields and monitor health of livestock utilizing sensors in a collar.  We discuss implications of this, a RSS reader and negotiating terms at your job on episode 028 of Owning Your Own!

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• Updates! - Highlights of interesting news across the internet
  
• Beginning of Time – Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 25 years Ago
  
• The Finger – Cows in the Cloud
  
• The Toolbox – Feedly - RSS News Aggregator
  
• Open Up And Say AAAA - 5 Ways to Own Your Own at Your Work
  
• Outro Song (Alan) – Mists of Avalon by Marc Fuller
  

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• Our first official introduction of updates as a segment (4:20)
  
• OwningYourOwn.com ranked on the first page for “Owning Your Own” in Bing (6:30)
  
• Rankings often to a “dance” when they are climbing. (6:45)
  
• Exxon oil spill in Alaska was 25 years ago (12:24)
  
• Conscious human effort has gotten the wildlife population back to normal after 25 years (13:00)
  
• Shrimp are slowly coming back, crab are not back (15:01)
  
• Silent Herdsman is the name of the company spearheading health tracking livestock using collars with sensors (16:24)
  
• Cow analytics! (16:35)
  
• The sensors detect when cows have a higher milk yield (17:00)
  
• Predictive analytics software for livestock (19:10)
  
• Feedly is a RSS reader that aggregates various RSS sources; became more popular after Google Reader stopped supporting it (24:20)
  
• Firefox has RSS reader but have to use the same browser, Feedly keeps it in the cloud (27:30)
  
• Alan and Andrew both have several years of internet marketing experience, SEO, PPC, Social Media, Email Marketing; send questions. (32:00)
  
• Negotiating salary is possible but also flex time; meaning don’t always have to work 9 to 5 (33:30)
  
• 50% of people without children say flexible work times are extremely important (35:17)
  
• Plan out the flex time as much as possible (37:20)
  
• A large deterrence for employers is taking advantage of the flex time (38:00)
  
• Even without salary raises, a title change is a valuable asset to growing employees (39:30)
  
• Maternity and paternity leave; only 16% of companies offer leave beyond what’s required (44:10)
  
• Vacation time vs PTO (48:20)
  
• Project placement:  ask to be involved on projects even if they are outside of your job description (49:20)
  
• Marc Fuller plays all the instruments in the outro song (55:00)