Some universities don't give their faculty and staff the ability to communicate with every other faculty and staff person on campus in a single campus-wide email. Buffalo State, for instance, did away with the e-mail free-for-all and replaced it with a daily bulletin, called The Daily. As I understand it, it's managed by their College Relations department. Folks who want to get their
I'll begin my post about ”how to give yourself a headache” with a little illustration. Yesterday the University News team met to discuss the next issue of News and Events, as well as several "global issues." The main issue for discussion was the always alarming truth about technology and today's youth. Silandara attended a web conference last month, and brought back details about
As I was browsing RIT's blog hits on technorati.com, I came across this post by Ben Rand, blogging for the Democrat & Chronicle. He says, in part: The hot Henrietta company known as Pictometry International has officially joined the escalating "map" wars being waged by the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Pictometry's patented technology for capturing high-resolution aerial digital imagery is a
Do you know that RIT is a parent university to three other schools around the world? U.S. Business School in Prague (USBSIP) in Prague, Czech Republic American College of Management and Technology(ACMT) in Dubrovnik, Croatia American University in Kosovo (AUK) (Take some time and browse the Web sites. A special congratulations to AUK...the new Web site looks great!) This is a picture of
So now I know why the White House burns out an official spokesperson like every 6 months!! Clinton's visit to RIT was great, but the University News team had to jump through a ton of hoops. Clinton's PR people and the U.S. Secret Service put us through the ringer...Media availability was on again, off again, on again, off again, and then on.... In
Not everyone got to get in on the hubub when President Clinton visited RIT today. This webmaster, for one, wasn't even on campus as it was my day off. Plus, I wasn't invited. Hopefully one of my colleagues will blog about the experience... If you were in a similar boat as me (not being invited or not on campus or just not there
We've been working hard behind the scenes to get our blog on a new level of functionality. You know, one where it actually works and you can post comments without getting spammed. In the process, we're changing the design so that it's not a clone of the University News web site (as much as we love it). We (being me and my student