Posted in CIO, General CIS on Oct 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
Over the summer SUNY Delhi’s Edward Stammel, Adjunct Instructor, Business & Hospitality Division, contacted his department dean and CIS to discuss creating a new section for CITA 110, Introduction to Software Applications. Professor Stammel wrote: The nature of Information Technology is undergoing a major revolution. The old way of doing things with corporate controlled networks running [...]
Posted in General CIS, IT Research on Sep 5th, 2009 Comments Off
As mentioned before in “As much by writing,” CIS staff are constantly discovering interesting articles as they keep up-to-date on current operations and research the various technology-related discussions underway at SUNY Delhi. Here’s a list of what CIS found of interest over the summer… Adoption of Enterprise 2.0 in business What’s the Point of Desktop [...]
Posted in CIO, General CIS on Sep 5th, 2009 Comments Off
Back in July I posted to the “As Much By Writing” blog a screenshot captured from my computer when Google was down. By posting this, I was trying to highlight even technology giants–those universally accepted as leaders and innovators, and who have relatively unlimited resources compared to SUNY Delhi (technical, financial and staff)–can run into [...]
Posted in General CIS on Aug 10th, 2009 Comments Off
An issue that has fostered much discussion in and around the hallways of the CIS offices lately is the client’s perception of response and resolution. I often think that clients feel that they are one in the same however those of us in the technology support field know they differ greatly. Client Support Services defines [...]
Posted in General CIS on Jul 24th, 2009 Comments Off
I was leaving yesterday and got caught up in a good ol’ fashioned round of office banter about another department on campus. After a few comments, which may have been at best poor humor and at worst poor judgment, one of our colleagues offered, “How can we expect other departments to respect what we do, [...]
Posted in CIO, Campus Technology Services, General CIS, HelpDesk, Systems and Networking on Jul 5th, 2009 Comments Off
Posted in General CIS on Mar 27th, 2009 Comments Off
Ok, clearly I’m a wiki-head. Most certainly annoyingly so. I personally subscribe to a couple instances of Confluence and have about 15 wikis I own or use on sites.google.com and pbwiki.com. But why? How did I get this way? To me, our Confluence wiki is as important if not more important than e-mail, and is [...]
Posted in General CIS on Mar 25th, 2009 Comments Off
Kudos to the CIS Staff in developing a great library of interesting articles. Located in Confluence, these articles might focus on technical topics, but they actually address many of the day-to-day issues SUNY Delhi faculty, staff and students are encountering.
Posted in General CIS on Feb 3rd, 2009 Comments Off
Four student productions are winners of the second annual Sparky Awards, a contest organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and adopted by campuses nationwide that calls on entrants to creatively illustrate in a short video the value of sharing ideas. Selected by a distinguished panel of media scholars, educators, librarians, students, [...]
Posted in General CIS, Project Management on Jan 9th, 2009 Comments Off
Thanks to podcasts, I have finally become a listener of “This American Life”. I heard this episode the other day that made me think of my teamwork and how I participate in working with my colleagues. It made me think – what type of team member am I? How can I be a better team [...]