Category Archives: Web/Work
Personal Injury Warning System
I just recently learned of Jonathan Corum‘s Personal Injury Warning System. It is a fun trip through his historic record of personal injuries and the warning signs that might have prevented each incident. Despite the extensive injuries, Jonathan retains a … Continue reading
Buzzword now part of Acrobat.com beta
A new “beta” has been hatched. Acrobat.com is Adobe’s new collaborative platform which integrates Buzzword for collaborative authorship, ConnectNow for online meetings and presentations, PDF creation, Acrobat.com offline AIR application and apparently more. I wrote about my pleasant experience with … Continue reading
Google Apps for Education
Just ran across an archived EduCause Live! presentation on Outsourcing E-Mail and Other Commodity Services (June 2007). It is a good discussion on the reasonings and concerns around Northwestern University partnering with Google for email and other services. Some of … Continue reading
Gabriel Takes Second in 1K Competition
Congratulations to Gabriel on second prize in the Seagate Billionth Drive 1K Competition run by boingboing Gadgets. The challenge…”send us the most ingenious work of art, writing, code or whatever takes your fancy that fits into a kilobyte or less.” … Continue reading
SunGardHE Summit: Usability Evaluation of myWSU Portal
(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Tuesday, April 15) Wichita State University shares information gathered over two myWSU usability tests. Results were similar to many of our findings. It was interesting that they noted a similar problem with students not really … Continue reading
SunGardHE Summit: Recruiting the Millenial Generation
(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Wednesday, April 16) Neil Howe spoke on recruiting the Millenial generation. Millennials are the generation born since 1982 with a childhood era including culture wars and the 1990s boom. What will their coming of age … Continue reading
SunGardHE Summit: Fellow Blogger
Jason is posting on the sessions he is attending.
SunGardHE Summit: Google Apps Integration with Luminis Platform
(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Tuesday, April 15) Process overview of integrating student accounts with Luminis and Google. This integration tool is a services engagement (i.e., money). Automatically create Google account from Banner Feed email address back to Banner Update … Continue reading
SunGardHE Summit: Emergency Communications
(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Tuesday, April 15) Western Washington University shares emergency communications site and processes. WWU partners with Pier Systems for emergency communication via web pages, email, text messages, voice and text-to-voice. Also important, the system includes inquiry … Continue reading
SunGardHE Summit: Competing with MyYahoo and iGoogle
Notes from SunGardHE Summit (Monday, April 14) Tab and channel drag-and-drop sample from Lehigh University making use of YUI. Cleaner implementation of functionality without major mods to nested layouts. In Luminis IV you have to preload content/layout channel and then … Continue reading
