Great New Emerging Blogs
May 24, 2006 | 23 Comments
Over the last few months a few friends and colleagues have started their own blogs. Since then each has put out some fantastic articles and I wanted to take an opportunity to summarize why these are great blogs and highlight my favorite three stories from each.
Ken’s TEK
Ken is my manager at Plymouth State University. His history of forward thinking in the higher education technology space has continued to keep PSU out in front of the University System of NH’s other schools as well as many other higher education institutions. Trust me, I’m not just saying this because he’s my boss, when Ken finally gets a full handle on blogging, we’ll look back on his stories as clear indicators on what is what with higher education technology.
Pomp, Circumstance and Gonfalons
In response to a perceived lack of grandeur during the 2004 Plymouth graduation Ken suggested addition of gonfalons which went over amazingly in 2005. They were again used successfully in 2006. He explains the significance of gonfalons in this article.
Google Trends - Veeerrrryyy Interesting
A great use case for another one of Google’s sweet tools.
SunGardHE Summit Snap Shots
Images from our hugely successful trip to Summit 2006.
Ken has a pile of other great articles on identity management, business intelligence, vodcasts, online education, and more.
Changing gears, this is Randy’s second run at OS. His first incarnation was pretty cool, but this new one blows that old one away. I just hope if this one goes away, all the content doesn’t go with it… again… Randy is a DC comic book loving geek through and through. Me being a Marvel guy, this gives me some great insight on how the lesser half of the comic world thinks.
Seremuppety
An amazingly hilarious parody of Joss Whedon’s Firefly/Serenity done with muppets.
Important Survival Information!
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Superman: A true Hero will fly again! and Superman’s New Look
Randy is far more excited about the new Superman movie than I am. I appreciate his level of enthusiasm, it is what has kept me paying attention to this movie.
Why is there nothing about Infinite Crisis on his blog yet?
Watersedge
Dan Bramer is the newest in this crowd, but shows great potential. Dan grasps new ideas quickly and is able to convert them into entertaining and insightful ways. Currently there is a lot of WebCT info that is finally being documented. I can’t wait to see what he does when he’s tasked with supporting Luminis and Oracle HTMLdb ongoing.
Tracking Flights in 3D with Google Earth
How flippin’ sweet is this?!? Google Earth is such an awesome application. I love when people take advantage of this application as a platform for additional functionality.
WebCT: The 6 day work week
Here’s Dan flexing his capable WebCT muscles. An insightful extract of previously unmined data.
Dan-a-thon: Disclaimer
An amusing defensive stance after being a key component of one of the most fun trips I’ve ever been on in my life. Dan drove our group through Disney at a break-neck pace, allowing us to see more than we would have expected on such a short trip.
I have to throw an honorable mention to his first story though, Ode to the ‘Construction Guy’, go read this it’s funny as hell.
So, that’s my summary. Check these blogs out and I hope you enjoy them half as much as I do. As for you three, if you’re reading this, keep up the good work.
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Northeast SCT Luminis Recruitment/Business Case
June 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Originally posted on Luminis Developer’s Network 6/10/05
The official title was: New England Colleges and Universities - Developing the Business Case for a Digital Campus Portal
Yesterday, June 9th, SCT put on a small conference hosted by Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. There were 4 presentations by existing Luminis clients to a room of clients who are considering or planning implementation of Luminis. Overall this was a fun event and an opportunity to talk to some other schools and get a feel for the sorts of things they are looking to accomplish with Luminis.
The presenters were:
“Luminis - Integrate It All”
Northeastern University - http://myneu.neu.edu/
Kevin Leggett and Maura Boyd
Apparently they have given this presentation numerous times including at Summit. Maura is a CPIP guru. They have integrated may external apps through CPIP. The biggy there is that they are a IBM shop and have suite of CPIP’d apps including Lotus Domino, IBm WebSphere, etc.
“Upgrading from Campus Pipeline to SCT Luminis”
Wentworth Institure of Technology - https://lconnect.wit.edu
Maureen Crawford-Hentz
Maureen is a non-technical user from career services with extreme excitement about the Luminis platform. She is a content editor and contributor who strongly encouraged all schools implementing the platform to get non-techies involved early on. Ownership of the content encourages her and her staff to continually keep content fresh and updated. One real gem of wisdom I took from her is to find out who on campus is making and putting up posters all over campus. If you can harnass those people to generate portal content their excitement can translate to fresh new content that is in touch with students.
“Keeping myPlymouth Exciting” or “Making it Strategic”
Plymouth State University - http://my.plymouth.edu
Ken Kochien and Zach Tirrell
Our presentation covered our inclusion of alumni in our portal as the permanent consitituent fo the campus. We also gave overview of the exciting things we are doing technically with YaleCAS, LDI, and leveraging the underlying UPortal infrastructure. I then also spent time giving on overview of the benefits of this community site (no surprise there). The presentation is here if you want to see the slides.
“Possibilities Achieved - Unifying Campus Community and Services”
North Shore Community College - http://pipeline.northshore.edu
Gary Ham and Jan Forsstrom
This presentation was also a fairly polished, at least, second showing. North Shore has a very solid Luminis implementation. They are leveraging the whole scope of services provided with Luminis, as well as integrating many/all on campus services in a fairly seemless fashion.
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