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Facebook looks at the meta="description" element of the shared link to determine its excerpt. The following link discusses how to do this:

Matthew Ebel » Blog Archive » Adding WP Post Excerpts to Facebook Links

The process requires modifying the header of your current theme, usually the header.php.

It’s also possible that the meta="description" element is missing in your theme (like in CRC‘s Suffusion theme). If that’s the case, just add the missing element.

[EDIT: Ditched this and went with All in One SEO Pack plugin instead.]

Lean marks the 100th daily entry post for this blog. Yay, me!

To mark this occasion, let’s look back to those 100 posts and see if we could find something interesting.

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As mentioned in the previous post, Deming influenced a number of 21st century management techniques. Most of them have already ascended to buzzword status like “Six Sigma” and “Total Quality Management (TQM)” and should be familiar to those working in corporations and bibiliophiles browsing books in local specialty bookstores.

Instead of enumerating and discussing all of those approaches to management, I’ll just give an overview on the management technique that encompasses most of them: Lean.

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