If you are planning on attending the WV Higher Education Technology Conference Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2008 at Lakeview you should head on over to the conference website and register. The presenters have been notified and the program is live. I’m looking forward to it.
WVU has several presentations in the mix and I think it’ll be [...]
Email is becoming a way of the past for maintaining and building relationships. Social networks and utilities are better tools for establishing relationships and better ways of communication and avoiding spam. Digital millennials are utilizing social networking to communicate with those of common interest and avoiding undesired messages. There are many user-friendly social networks such [...]
Many of us, students, faculty and staff alike, use Gmail for our personal/non-University email. This post on Mashable today relays a security hole that is easily fixed in your Gmail settings. For those of you who are accessing Gmail in a public place, take a minute to go to your Gmail settings and tell it [...]
A hearty handshake and a pat on the back to all of you who are back in town to start a new semester. Those of you who are new to WVU, “Welcome!”
This semester marks the launch of this blog. We’re hoping that this is a helpful resource for you during your time at WVU. I [...]
I guess the scammers of the world have decided to time their attacks on the WVU community with the beginning of school this year. Yesterday we saw two phishing scams targeting…well… everyone. One scam was actually a phone scam. Here is what we posted on it yesterday:
New phone phishing scam circulating
WVU faculty, staff, students and [...]
We recently set up a WVU OIT page on Facebook. Now every one of you can “Become a Fan” of OIT! At first we were just testing out the concept of pages on Facebook, but we soon realized this was a really handy tool.
It imports news from our OIT news feed directly. So while it [...]
A few weeks ago I was reading on one of my favorite sites, Mashable (a blog about social media technology) about a company called Dimdim. [Here is the article: Dimdim Raises $6M for Open Source Web Meetings]
I thought this was a noteworthy, because while web meeting websites are out there, this one is open source. [...]
In addition to my web development duties here at the Office of Information Technology, I am an adjunct faculty member for the School of Journalism. I’ve been teaching PR319 – Public Relations Editing and Design for the past 4 1/2 years or so. Being inclined to post materials for my students online anyway, I’ve always [...]
