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	<title>kaiyen online &#187; Work-related</title>
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		<title>orchids and weeds.  not your normal garden.</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2012/01/11/orchids-and-weeds-not-your-normal-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2012/01/11/orchids-and-weeds-not-your-normal-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of years ago (7?), a colleague of mine at Stanford &#8211; Carlos Seligo &#8211; introduced the concept of &#8220;Orchids and Weeds.&#8221;  He meant it jokingly at the time, but it has stuck with me ever since. Basically, there are two ends of the spectrum when it comes to technology, support, and adoption.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>not reinventing the beeping noise</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/12/19/not-reinventing-the-beeping-noise/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/12/19/not-reinventing-the-beeping-noise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On our 2008 Honda CR-V, we have different beeping, alarm tones for leaving the key in ignition, headlights on, and parking brake on.  3 different tones. On our 2005 Mazda 3, we have a single tone that is used for both the keys and lights.  No parking brake. Of all cars, the 2004 Jeep Wrangler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>do more with more, more efficiently, in the same amount of time</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/12/13/do-more-with-more-more-efficiently-in-the-same-amount-of-time/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/12/13/do-more-with-more-more-efficiently-in-the-same-amount-of-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I loathe the phrase &#8220;do more with less.&#8221;  I abhor it.  I loathe and abhor very, very few things in life, and I reserve those venomous verbs for rare occasions.  Yet I both loathe and abhor the phrase and the idea behind the notion of &#8220;doing more with less&#8221; as a management tool or concept. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>low on resources &#8211; what to do?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/12/09/low-on-resources-what-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/12/09/low-on-resources-what-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I discussed the importance of dollars per capita re: resource shortages rather than simply number of staff or absolute budget.  This may be something that all IT leaders have already discovered on their own, but to me, divorcing myself from thinking in terms of absolute budget (well, of course Santa Clara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a platform for accountability</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/11/30/a-platform-for-accountability/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/11/30/a-platform-for-accountability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have been considering various changes in my approach to management, leadership, and IT in higher ed, I am reminded of the importance of accountability.  This is one of the most important parts of a successful team &#8211; it is part of the foundation upon which productivity and teamwork rests.  In fact, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sometimes you have to put baby in a corner</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/08/28/sometimes-you-have-to-put-baby-in-a-corner/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/08/28/sometimes-you-have-to-put-baby-in-a-corner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been either working with people who are less than enthusiastic about developing a meaningful rapport with myself and my department or have been affected by various issues that have made them less collaborative/cooperative.  In general, I try to build relationships that will help out in the long-run.  That will create allies, that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the disappearance of the life of IT folks..or not</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/04/12/the-disappearance-of-the-life-of-it-folks-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/04/12/the-disappearance-of-the-life-of-it-folks-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web 2.0]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common &#8220;issues&#8221; and topics of discussion among IT professionals in higher ed is our potential obsolescence in the face of the changing student population, the infusion of uncontrolled media, and non-university solutions for connection &#8211; IM, Facebook, etc. There are various articulations of this fear, but the gist is that because of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>false advertising and hiding the tracks</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/false-advertising-and-hiding-tracks/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/false-advertising-and-hiding-tracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Usual disclaimer:  IT groups at any university are faced with a tough challenge.  Limited resources, usually not quite enough staff to manage too many enterprise-level type services, and a strong, legitimate desire to do things the right way that gets misread as slow response, lack of concern, and or a number of other negative opinions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>management and innovation</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/management-and-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/management-and-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I posted about how hard it is to be a manager.  It was a kind of introspective, philosophical post rather than an in-depth analysis of management.  I was doing an off-the-cuff look at the conflict between being a manager and a leader.  The two are different, but unless you happen to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>edupunking law school, part 1</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/10/17/edupunking-law-school-part-1-2/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/10/17/edupunking-law-school-part-1-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus from this blog, during which I was basically swamped at work, I return to the idea of how to redefine or perhaps restructure law school to make better use of its faculty, give more to the student, and get away from the traditional models of revenue and federal aid reliance.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a funny thing</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/09/25/a-funny-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/09/25/a-funny-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something a bit odd happened earlier today.   An e-mail had gone out to various senior members of the law school that came from one of the school staff but looked a bit fishy.  Had some elements of unsolicited spam in it &#8211; &#8220;Have you heard the latest on..&#8221; and &#8220;the biggest scam you&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>edupunking law school</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/17/edupunking-law-school/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/17/edupunking-law-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading a book called DIY U:  Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education on my kindle.  I&#8217;m fairly familiar with the overall Edupunk movement, which has primarily focused on moving away from commercial, enterprise level (and therefore expensive) solutions and towards a more DIY, open-source kind of environment.  But this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>if I were president&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/17/if-i-were-president/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/17/if-i-were-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a university, that is, looking to cut costs in a world where we spend more and more each year to meet basic expectations. Far too long ago, I hypothesized a scenario where a university might choose to outsource strategic decision-making on technology.  Let me clarify exactly what it is to which I am referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>outsourcing ourselves</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/05/outsourcing-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/05/outsourcing-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s a thought:  why not outsource IT strategy? I&#8217;m not talking about IT infrastructure or tools.  I don&#8217;t mean using Amazon EC2 for computing power or S3 for storage, much less Google Apps for Education.  I&#8217;m not talking about outsourcing specific services. I mean outsourcing the actual decision-making process that drives our services and overall strategy.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dear university&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/12/dear-general-counsel/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/12/dear-general-counsel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear University General Counsel,* I write to ask you to help foster an environment of creativity, innovation, and to engage us in how to push the envelope, rather than present to us the dimensions of said container and the strength of the glue that keeps contents within. I ask that you consider how important innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Groupwise to Google experiment (part 3)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/06/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/06/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve described in two previous posts on my efforts to use Google rather than Groupwise for work e-mail and calendaring (1 &#38; 2), as a connection point for my Android phone, I have run into a lot of interesting behaviors.  I&#8217;ve had challenges and successes. Right now, I have Groupwise set up to straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>deeply misunderstood&#8230;or stuck in a professional rut</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/04/deeply-misunderstood-or-stuck-in-a-professional-rut/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/04/deeply-misunderstood-or-stuck-in-a-professional-rut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read through a post by a friend who has been struck by the changes between working at a start-up and now in academia.  I, in turn, have been thinking a lot about whether I&#8217;ve been painting myself into a professional corner.  Making myself irrelevant to the rest of the working world&#8230; About 4 or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the limits of outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/02/the-limits-of-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/02/the-limits-of-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, about approaching outsourcing in higher education from a strategic view that goes beyond simple cost savings or privacy concerns, I talked about how outsourcing should either lower costs, increase value, or do both in order to help an organization develop and maintain a competitive advantage. Defining competitive advantage in higher education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>next in higher ed:  outsourcing as strategy</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/28/next-in-higher-ed-outsourcing-as-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/28/next-in-higher-ed-outsourcing-as-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A hot topic for some time now in Higher Education is outsourcing.  Generally, this has taken the form of using Google for e-mail.  In fact, other than a handful that use Microsoft&#8217;s live@edu for e-mail&#8230;I can&#8217;t think of anyone else doing anything through outsourcing.  No storage, no running of Exchange in the cloud, etc. Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>managing by exceptions == anarchy</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/25/managing-by-exceptions-anarchy/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/25/managing-by-exceptions-anarchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, it seems like all I ever hear is how, because there is such great certainty that students or other customers will just break the rules anyway, we should plan for the exceptions, rather than modify and/or enforce actual policy. For instance, since we know that students routinely share account information with each other, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the land of the lost</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/16/the-land-of-the-los/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/16/the-land-of-the-los/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some organizations are monolithic and distant.  Huge, hulking, single-minded set of drones that present an impenetrable barrier to two-way communication.  Messages within are often top-down.  Big Brother tells you what to do, and all you have is a memory hole at hand. Should messages be top-down, from the organization but emanating out to the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pissing off one group at a time</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/15/pissing-off-one-group-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/15/pissing-off-one-group-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With my recent graduation from business school, many colleagues, peers, friends, and family have been asking me what&#8217;s next, and how work is going.  They kind of go hand in hand (though a negative answer to the latter doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m rushing forward to something in the former). At work, the biggest development has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fighting complacency</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/13/fighting-complacency/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/13/fighting-complacency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with a classmate of mine recently, discussing various issues of interest at our school, the university at large, and educational technology in general.  We quickly moved from the specific &#8211; technology that we have seen implemented ourselves &#8211; to the general. We spoke, essentially, about how one must approach educational technology. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the endless pursuit of&#8230;complacency</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/12/the-endless-pursuit-of-complacency/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/12/the-endless-pursuit-of-complacency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about differing perspectives on technology and support of student learning here at SCU, so I must preface things a bit.  Any administrator at any academic institution, especially in &#8220;these tough economic times&#8221; (a phrase that I am so sick of&#8230;yet I use here in this post) has to make tough decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Ed Tech Talk: OMG the OS is the Internet</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/06/higher-ed-tech-talk-omg-the-os-is-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/06/higher-ed-tech-talk-omg-the-os-is-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[link removed because 1) it was a while ago and 2) don't want to piss off the original poster....] A short time after the iPad came out, someone at another university (a CIO, I think) posted that &#8220;OMG, the Internet is the OS!&#8221;  The gist is that he had a revelation that with such a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/06/higher-ed-tech-talk-omg-the-os-is-the-internet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>the Groupwise to Google experiment (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So back in part 1 of this experiment, which was quite a while ago, my goal was to see whether I could effectively use Google mail, calendar and contacts as a direct replacement for Novell Groupwise, which we use at Santa Clara.  &#8221;Effectively&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean that all of a sudden all of my e-mails come [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>the GroupWise to Google Experiment (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/04/05/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/04/05/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can't be Contained]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the university at which I work uses Novell&#8217;s suite of applications for e-mail, calendaring, systems management, and storage.  For a while now, I have been contemplating how to stop using the GroupWise (e-mail and calendar) client, which is terrible on a Mac, and move to a different set of tools.  At the same time, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/04/05/the-groupwise-to-google-experiment-part-1/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Novell bets on Google Wave to replace its struggling GroupWise platform « Boy Genius Report</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/03/22/novell-bets-on-google-wave-to-replace-its-struggling-groupwise-platform-%c2%ab-boy-genius-report/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/03/22/novell-bets-on-google-wave-to-replace-its-struggling-groupwise-platform-%c2%ab-boy-genius-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Novell bets on Google Wave to replace its struggling GroupWise platform « Boy Genius Report. This is one of the most&#8230;amazing things I&#8217;ve read in a while.  I would normally say &#8220;exciting&#8221; because it is also that.  But it&#8217;s so exciting that it&#8217;s amazing. I won&#8217;t lie &#8211; I&#8217;m not a big fan of Groupwise, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/03/22/novell-bets-on-google-wave-to-replace-its-struggling-groupwise-platform-%c2%ab-boy-genius-report/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>the sanctity of our electronic data&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-sanctity-of-our-electronic-data/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-sanctity-of-our-electronic-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=817</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NB and caveat:  I say &#8220;we&#8221; a lot in this post.  I do not mean the &#8220;we&#8221; that is my organization and/or the university at which I work.  I mean academia in general. There has been a lot of debate &#8211; everywhere, but especially in academia &#8211; about outsourcing.  Lately, this has been e-mail.  The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-sanctity-of-our-electronic-data/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>what is a &#8220;disruptive technology?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/05/what-is-a-disruptive-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/05/what-is-a-disruptive-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night and throughout Educause, people have been talking about &#8220;disruptive technologies.&#8221;  Because I&#8217;m getting my MBA, I think back to disruptive technologies in terms of products and markets. For instance, the transistor was a disruptive technology.  However, many manufacturers of radios considered it a process change &#8211; they put them in their existing, big [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/05/what-is-a-disruptive-technology/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>google apps&#8230;and what the heck is wave?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/04/google-apps-and-what-the-heck-is-wave/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/04/google-apps-and-what-the-heck-is-wave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So far, after just 1 day at Educause (and pre-conference day, actually), there has been quite a bit of talk about campuses that have gone with Google Apps for Education, and about their latest product, Google Wave. The talks about Google Apps have gone in 2 parts, it seems. 1 &#8211; migration to e-mail was [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/04/google-apps-and-what-the-heck-is-wave/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>the oppression of the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-oppression-of-the-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-oppression-of-the-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Educause 2009 in Denver, I&#8217;m finding myself once again feeling left out because I don&#8217;t have an iPhone.  An application with all of the program information (you don&#8217;t have to pick up one of the paper booklets, perhaps) is available, and everyone I talk to just keeps asking me if I have an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>making lemonade</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/25/making-lemonade/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/25/making-lemonade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit &#8211; I&#8217;m a big fan of the phrase &#8220;when the world gives you lemons, make lemonade.&#8221; It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m some die-hard optimist, nor that I always see the sunny side.  Actually, I might like that phrase because it helps me get through the day sometimes, when I&#8217;m being more pessimistic. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Circus Ponies NoteBook 3.0 Review</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/18/circus-ponies-notebook-3-0-review/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/18/circus-ponies-notebook-3-0-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Circus Ponies NoteBook 3.0 Review. Mac Law Students, started up by an SCU Law alum, is a great resource for all things related to technology and law school.  Yes, it is targeted at mac users, but the ideas and concepts presented are very relevant nonetheless. Notebook, from Circus Ponies, truly is an interesting product.  For [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/18/circus-ponies-notebook-3-0-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Laptops &amp; classes &#8211; the slippery slope</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/11/laptops-classes-the-slipper-slope/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/11/laptops-classes-the-slipper-slope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this a bit &#8211; I work at a law school.  Unlike most other groups at a university, where the laptop ownership rate might be very high but the &#8220;actually carry laptop to class&#8221; rate might be quite a bit lower, just about every law student owns a laptop, and uses it in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Technology is everywhere, and nowhere</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/18/technology-is-everywhere-and-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/18/technology-is-everywhere-and-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can't be Contained]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came out of a meeting where the various deans at the School of Law met with directors of some of our major centers (Global Law, High Tech, and Social Justice) to talk about how the centers and the school might work better together.   It was a lively discussion, with contributions from just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One never has enough resources, but that doesn&#8217;t hurt any less</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/10/one-never-has-enough-resources-but-that-doesnt-hurt-any-less/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/10/one-never-has-enough-resources-but-that-doesnt-hurt-any-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that every manager faces the issue of not enough resources.  I can&#8217;t think of anyone I know that has enough or too much, certainly.  There&#8217;s always one project that one wishes can be done, but can&#8217;t due to budget, resources, etc. But that doesn&#8217;t make it hurt any less.  We operate basically with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>educause 2008:  oversleeping is the theme so far</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/30/educause-2008-oversleeping-is-the-theme-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/30/educause-2008-oversleeping-is-the-theme-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a frustrating educause in many ways.  I have met up with many people.  And many of them even remember me from the various times we&#8217;ve met in the past, which is in some cases surprising.  And almost all of them have been great with whom to speak and share ideas.  That part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally &#8211; someone gets &#8220;it&#8221; on laptops, classrooms, and law schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SSRN Author Page for Jana R. McCreary I confine my commentary about the state of academic technology (technology implemented in the pursuit of bettering teaching and learning, as compared to technology as an enabler or productivity and getting work done) and law schools to this blog and a select few colleagues here.  I had a [...]]]></description>
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