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	<title>Comments on: Effective minority supplier strategies</title>
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		<title>By: E-Sourcing Forum: the source of information and best practices in strategic sourcing</title>
		<link>http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2006/11/28/effective-minority-supplier-strategies/#comment-7757</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 14:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Also of interest, is the now omni-present nature of our blogosphere. I had a very interesting conversation with some one that mentioned a post I wrote many months ago about the Hackett study on supplier diversity which was picked up by Jason Busch on Spend Matters. In Jason&#8217;s post, he went into great detail about reverse discrimination which elicited quite a debate. I was told that this particular conversation thread (100% blog generated) was a topic of conversation at one of the most attended workshops at the SIG conference last week. Apparently, this was quite a spirited and passionate subject and whatever the each person&#8217;s opinions are regarding the topic, it is great to see the blogs impacting the debate and generating dialogue. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Also of interest, is the now omni-present nature of our blogosphere. I had a very interesting conversation with some one that mentioned a post I wrote many months ago about the Hackett study on supplier diversity which was picked up by Jason Busch on Spend Matters. In Jason&#8217;s post, he went into great detail about reverse discrimination which elicited quite a debate. I was told that this particular conversation thread (100% blog generated) was a topic of conversation at one of the most attended workshops at the SIG conference last week. Apparently, this was quite a spirited and passionate subject and whatever the each person&#8217;s opinions are regarding the topic, it is great to see the blogs impacting the debate and generating dialogue. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: David Bush - Iasta</title>
		<link>http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2006/11/28/effective-minority-supplier-strategies/#comment-4004</link>
		<dc:creator>David Bush - Iasta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For posterity, please jump to Spend Matters - 

http://www.spendmatters.com/index.cfm/2006/11/30/If-Supplier-Diversity-is-Not-Discrimination-Then-What-is-</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For posterity, please jump to Spend Matters - </p>
<p><a href="http://www.spendmatters.com/index.cfm/2006/11/30/If-Supplier-Diversity-is-Not-Discrimination-Then-What-is-" rel="nofollow">http://www.spendmatters.com/index.cfm/2006/11/30/If-Supplier-Diversity-is-Not-Discrimination-Then-What-is-</a></p>
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