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		<title>Thanks to Blogging Idol &#8230;&#8230; What&#8217;s Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite surprised when I learned last week that I was the winner of the 2011 version of Blogging Idol.  I was certainly not expecting it&#8230;..other blog postings and musings were certainly as interesting and as thought provoking as mine (in my opinion).  Nevertheless, I am grateful for the recognition and can certainly use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Luck To Everyone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone enjopyed themselves this year&#8230;..I know I did. One of these days I may just turn into a real professional blogger like Kevin and Chris&#8230;&#8230;perhaps I should practice using Twitter first. See you at the after-party ! &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Value for Money</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/value-for-money/2217</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 19:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1) Why I Chose IT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got involved in helping to prepare a workshop on enhancing Value for Money in procurement. Funny how the complexities of the topic jump out at you when you try to make a few slides &#8211; what you may have thought was a straightforward concept becomes a minefield of definitions and concepts, just like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count Down &#8211; T &#8211; 70 minutes</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/count-down-t-70-minutes/2167</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 03:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1) Why I Chose IT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Ok.  You caught me rushing to post something/anything during a TV commercial&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Just occurred to me &#8211; who thinks that watching TV on your PC/phone/watch is better than the nice big screens we have nowadays?  Everything has a purpose, don&#8217;t you think? I had a nice evening, with a friend, sitting on a balcony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cloudy Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 18:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Toronto we had very nice early summer day yesterday, without rain and cloud-free (taking a bit of poetic licence here!).  I was also cloud-free &#8211; stayed away from my computer for most of the day!! Today is another story.  Its humid, dull, cloudy and seems to rain every time I head outside.  It made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Weekend or Blogging Throwdown?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/hoiday-weekend-or-blogging-throwdown/2091</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Content]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok.  This is our last weekend of posting at Blogging Idol for 2011.  Have we had fun and has it been informative?  Yes indeed, at least from my perspective. Let&#8217;s see if we get a rush of last minute postings, assuming we aren&#8217;t all heading out into the rain for the holiday weekend.  I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Standards Customer Council</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/cloud-standards-customer-council/2064</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 02:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who haven&#8217;t run into it yet, a new organization called the Cloud Standards Customer Council has recently been formed. Following is an extract from a press release from CSCC: Quote Cloud Standards Customer Council   Membership Expanding Rapidly First Virtual Meeting to be Held May 18 Needham, MA, USA &#8211; April 27, 2011 &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Blogs Pass Away?</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/do-blogs-pass-away/2006</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/do-blogs-pass-away/2006#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 20:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[4) Social Media Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog graveyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow!  I can hardly keep up with the recent set of BlogIdol postings.  We must be the home stretch, and new horses are appearing on the track!! I&#8217;ve been wondering &#8211; is there a graveyard (or maybe a cloud) for blog posts that are &#8220;used up&#8221;??  Does a blog ever get sent to a bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Devices in the Enterprise</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/consumer-devices-in-the-enterprise/1898</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 14:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[5) Bring Your Own Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gartner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this event when I was following an ad on the ComputerWorld website and thought it was quite relevant for our topic on BYOT: Consumer Devices in the Enterprise Agenda Event date: 05/19/2011 Welcome to the CIO Association of Canada, Ontario Chapter’s event  “Consumer Devices in the Enterprise”, featuring guest panelists Bob Hafner (Gartner), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Deadly Sins for a Cloudy Day</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/seven-deadly-sins-for-a-cloudy-day/1840</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/seven-deadly-sins-for-a-cloudy-day/1840#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 15:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Sheppard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7 Layers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Deadly Sins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This picture comes from  Beartoons As a proponent of the old OSI Seven Layer Model for network protocols, my ears/eyes always perk up when I see anything described in terms of 7 (layers, or sections, or topics).  Hence my interest when I saw an article by Shane Schick in ComputerWolrd Canada (May 2011) referencing the [...]]]></description>
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