Tag Archive | "collaboration"

University Intranets: Let’s Secure Our Internal Knowledge Base from Ourselves #Fail

If a tree falls in the middle of the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?  If your work is on an Intranet only accessible by your department, are your efforts being heard and recognized throughout the university?

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Calendar Clutter & Meeting Madness

It seems I’ve fallen off the radar this month and so have some of my colleagues.  Are we dodging the new Facebook?  Nope.  Now that mainstream media has let all our former classmates, family and coworkers know about Twitter, are we ducking our newest followers? Nope.

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“Repent! Collaborator,” Said the Higher Ed Beancounterman

“Even in the cubicles of the hierarchy, where fear was generated, seldom suffered, he was called the Ticktockman. But no one called him that to his mask. You don’t call a man a hated name, not when that man is capable of revoking the minutes, the hours, the days and nights, the years or your [...]

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Blog Upgrade: Student Video Blogger

Starting in January we tried something a little different with our First Year Student blogs. As I’ve reported before I had a hunch that prospective students care more about videos, where their parents are more likely to read the student blogs. In a creative effort and some good collaboration we were able to combine the [...]

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