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		<title>CIO: How Do You Stay Relevant to Business? &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ UPDATE.- If you like to comment on this post, please come over to its new home at www.tao-of-living.com. This is a follow-up on an earlier post this week, CIO: How Do You Stay Relevant to Business? in which I suggested that the IT organization and its commander-in-chief, the CIO, could learn a lesson or two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=193&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 21:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note.- Today is the Memorial Day, a day to remember. To those who are skeptical of the CIO future, I want to say upfront that NO, this post is not a commemoration of the fallen CIOs of recent past (1). It is to pay tribute to the U.S. soldiers who died while in military service, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=183&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Thought on the Art of Living the Beginner&#8217;s Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So, dear Sir, I can&#8217;t give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to, the question of whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=166&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Plan or not to Plan, this is a CIO question</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you have early last year a plan for (how to deal with) the economic downturn? And this month, do you have a plan for its return to growth? In short, do you have a plan for different market scenarios? If you ask the CIOs, the most likely answer is NO. Few would be able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=158&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Tweet or not to Tweet, this is NOT a CIO question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are recently a host of posts inquiring about whether the CIOs of the world are joining the social media bandwagon or not. One is from NetworkWorld with &#8220;12 CIOs who Tweet&#8221;. The most recently one is from fellow CIO blogger George Tomko with his post &#8220;Why CIO are not using Twitter?&#8221; in which George [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=149&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The CIO in time of Fear &#8211; Uncertainty and Doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 19:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news about the potential Swine (now renamed H1N1) Flu Pandemic prompted me to think about the role of a CIO in time of Fear &#8211; Uncertainty &#8211; Doubt (FUD), especially when those FUD factors threaten the business continuity. It is easy to dismiss the news as &#8220;hype&#8221; by the media hungry for sensational reactions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=141&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 Days to a Better Blog &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started this Blog on April 3, 2009. Not quite on an impulse but also not based on any rational reasoning (except perhaps for some fleeting thought that it should not be on April&#8217;s Fool day). According to my 100-day plan, I should conclude my Better Blog project on July 11, 2009, with April 15 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=118&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Steps to a Successful Blogging Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I have shared with you my participation in ProBlogger&#8216;s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB) project and how I have had a belated awakening that this is also MY Better Blog project and I should take control of it and execute it the way that I know, i.e. via [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=109&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 Days to a Better CIO Assistant Blog</title>
		<link>http://cioassistant.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/100-days-to-a-better-cio-assistant-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post doesn&#8217;t fit into the regular CIO Assistant stream. It&#8217;s about my personal experience in a blog building project called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB) from ProBlogger (Darren Rowse). While many of you have no interest to read about blogging in general and my blogging experience in particular, the key message [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=102&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Darwinian View of a Successful IT Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Long Huynh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago, I submitted a post called &#8220;3 steps to a successful CIO&#8221; in which I surmised that his/her journey from the geek kingdom to the boardroom would follow a Darwinian evolution. This follow-up post will expand on that theme by suggesting that this journey cannot skip over any step but could be accelerated through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cioassistant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7223274&amp;post=79&amp;subd=cioassistant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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