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Clinton Forry

Clinton Forry is vice president, content strategy at Weber Shandwick. He writes about content on his Content-ment blog. He’s on Twitter as @wd45. When he’s not thinking about content, he’s probably thinking about vinyl LP jazz records. And he fancies wearing ties with his paisley and floral print shirts.

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