Bringing RIT’s news through the web and into 2006

If you've ended up here, then there's a good chance you've visited our parent site, RIT University News. If you haven't, please take the time to check them out here. Wonderful isn't it? We've got a photo, some text, a few links. What more could you ask for in a web site? The reality is, RIT University News has a mission. As the primary link

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The heart of the party

Margaret’s House celebrated turning 10 this month. Not being one to stay away from a party—I made sure to swing by. Okay, maybe the primary reason I went was because the 10th anniversary of Margaret’s House, specifically a $100,000 gift from RIT Vice President Emeritus Al Davis to Margaret’s House in the names of Al and Carolie Simone, was being featured on WHAM-13’s “Bright

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More tigers blogging

I don’t mean to get predictable here, but I’d like to highlight a few blogs written by RIT alums. We have a lot of them. And a bunch have blogs. I’m going to leave lots and lots of them out from this (hopefully) short synopsis – but you can see the ones that we know about in our blogroll and I’m always looking

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Our tiger blogging comrades

Before we redesigned the blog, we had a blogroll with a huge list of somewhat-related blogs. RIT faculty/staff, students, alums, other higher-ed or PR/marketing blogs. It was getting to be quite a list. I still have it somewhere . . . The blogs that other RIT faculty and staff write cover an interesting variety of subjects and the best manage to blend their

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Inside the stripes

There isn’t a more beloved figure on campus than RIT’s mascot, Ritchie the Tiger. But, as I interviewed the men behind Ritchie's mask for a feature story in the upcoming issue of News & Events (which hits the racks Sept. 7), I learned that it isn’t easy being Ritchie. People tend to show their affection in different ways. Many, especially young children, like to hug.

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pwned. |2|T r0×0rz g4m3r c0113g3 $u|2v3y

If you dont' know 'leet speak,' then it's time to get your nerd on and figure it out. The reason I chose to post the title in 1337 (leet, or elite), was to honor RIT's placement on the Global Gaming League's first annual Top Gaming Colleges survey (GGL). Contenders were judged on the following criteria: - Population - Proximity to areas rich with gamer culture - Student organizations

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Reflections on the RIT brand

Branding. It’s a concept we most often associate with corporate America. Brand identity it crucial to a company’s long-term viability. It may result from its knack for innovation or the quality of the firm’s products and customer service. I had an opportunity last week to reflect on this with RIT’s orientation assistants and resident advisors. As part of their preparation for the upcoming school

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Getting the party started

One of the challenges of being an active participant in the blogosphere is figuring out how to get conversations started. Because it’s all well and good for us to give the inside look at a higher-ed PR department, but not much point if we’re the only ones looking. The best way I see to get other people looking – and talking to us

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U.S. News rankings: A challenge to RIT alumni

The 2007 U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Colleges report is out and once again RIT received recognition for being among the best regional universities in the North. RIT also earned kudos for being among the best co-op programs in the nation. Both the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and the E. Philip Saunders College of Business were also ranked. For more

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Under construction.

Here are the stats so far regarding the CMS: - more than 800 lines of code. - approximately 60 hours of planning, designing, and writing code. - several kittens viewed at www.cuteoverload.com ...back to work, all. Wish me luck.

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Contrary to popular belief, I serve a purpose here at University News. Over time, I've become regarded as less of a 'worker bee' and more of a 'thinker bee.' For that, I'm grateful because I would lose my mind if I had to print web pages to PDF for 34 hours a week. :) So what am I up to? With all this new 'thinker

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The oldest man on Myspace

Besides being the title of a song by the band of geek pop junkies called 'Lemon Demon,' I'd like these words to act as a vehicle for tech musings. You have probably heard of the wave of social networking that's sweeping the internet right now. Sites like facebook.com, myspace.com, digg.com, and 9rules.com are each examples of social networks in their own form (Some folks

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BarCampRochester: The password is c4mp.

Before I begin, let's ask Wikipedia.org to describe the terms 'unconference', and 'BarCamp.' Unconference: An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of oganizers, in advance. (more...) BarCamp: BarCamp is an international network of unconferences -- open, participatory

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It’s a shiny, new blog!

Hi Folks! As you can see, we've made some adjustments to the Tiger Beat Blog you all know and love.  What began as some distaste with the CSS that MovableType generates, has become a full-blown redesign. We chose to move to Wordpress for it's administrative user interface, the price, and for the code it generates.  After investigating and poking and making a bunch of mistakes,

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Pete’s Picks, volume I

This week I'd like to present some of the tools I used in creating the soon-to-be-live, shiny, spanking-new Tiger Beat Blog. Blogging software: Wordpress Bug tracker: 16Bugs Layout & design: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Coding: Macrodobe Dreamweaver 8 Wordpress was wonderful to work with. Having no previous knowledge of it's inner workings, after a week of coding and tweaking and learning, I now consider

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The care and feeding of geeks

This is my first official post as the University News 'behind the scenes web tech something something' blogger. Every week I'll be supplying our readers with either a behind-the-scenes look at my problems as a web developer here (and how I solve them), an interesting PR-related resource or both. :) Moving on to the post, I focus on the budding technology department of

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The Digg.com of PR blogging

If you look past the gritty facade of prblogger.com, you'll find a swelling archive of PR and marketing tips from one Stephen Davies. His latest post describes a PR site that uses "non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control." Like the immensly popular digg.com, New PR is host to user submitted, democratically featured links (the difference in this case being that New PR focuses solely on

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Design patterns for journalists

While making my usual rounds through Mike Rundle (and company)'s 9rules Network, this article from Mark Friesen's Newsdesigner.com caught my eye. In it, he rounds up all the usual mainstream news sources, and groups papers by the angle they took on the recent coverage of the events involving Al-Zarqawi. I've been checking Newsdesigner.com at least a few times a week for some time

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Midday meal marks Mary J for maximum merriment

Last Friday RIT's Government and Community Relations division celebrated another year having successfully navigated the currents of public relations. We rode aboard Corn Hill Navigation's antique watercraft, the Mary Jemison. Departing from the newly constructed Corn Hill Landing, we were transported down the Genessee River to where it meets the Erie Canal, and back again. Pleasant weather, a relaxing boat ride, and some

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Blogs in the news

Had Mark Cuban been a subscriber to The Tiger Beat he may have saved himself one hundred thousand dollars. Mark Cuban, the eccentric billionaire-owner of the Dallas Mavericks was recently fined $100k for blogging...on his own personal website. Okay, so he wasn't actually fined for the act of blogging, but he was fined for his criticism of referees, which is taboo in the

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