Sun, Stanford Working To Archive History

In May in San Francisco, experts from leading universities, libraries, and research institutions around the world met as part of an ongoing effort to address a pressing issue: archiving the world's history, right up to today. More

Opinion

Automation Chimera: Education Is Not Management

07.02.08The lure of automating workflow online so human intervention is minimized is continually reinforced in the minds of higher education administrators by examples of automated campus systems such as financials, student information systems, and other enterprise systems. But what's good for management is not always good for learning. More

Software Review

Facebook and Collegiality: A Serendipitous Social Niche

07.02.08Facebook is a way to greet a colleague as if she or he is on your own campus: a wave at a distance, a hello at the corner burrito place, a honk as you both leave the campus parking lot. Informal collegiality has been extended over the miles. More

Project Management

eProcurement Success!

07.01.08Today, it's clear to almost every campus executive that moving an institution from the traditional purchasing model to a strategic eProcurement program can greatly increase staff efficiency and save the institution money. Because eProcurement automates so many purchasing processes, it eliminates reams of paperwork and allows procurement staff to refocus their efforts on cutting costs and improving strategic partnerships. More

Your Career

How to Be a Super Tech Leader

07.01.08Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno didn't start out in IT. She joined San Jose State University (CA) in 1981 as an assistant professor in the school of nursing. But somewhere along the way, she realized her energy was focused on academic technology, and how it could help a variety of learners gain knowledge. More

eLearning

'Socializing' the CMS

07.01.08Looking for ways to bring some of the power of social networking into Ye Olde Course Management System? Start here. More

Collaboration Tools

Taking the 'A' out of Asynchronous

07.01.08Wikis and blogs may be today's Web 2.0 darlings, but forward-looking institutions are going after the next big thing: collaboration in real time. More

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Payment Standard for Web Apps Goes Live

07.03.08 A new payment card industry (PCI) standard for Web application firewalls and source code went into effect July 1. PCI Industry Data Security standard 6.6 gives merchants a framework to ensure that the point-of-sale information uploaded into browser-based applications is sound from "top to bottom," the organization's literature said. Read More

Spotlight

New Vendor Consortium Pushes for Digital Information Card

by Dian Schaffhauser

06.27.08 A new vendor consortium focused on promoting industry-wide adoption of online digital identities has been established by Microsoft, Google, Oracle, PayPal, Novell, Equifax, and nine other companies. Its founders say the Information Card Foundation (ICF) hopes to unite industry efforts and vendor products to create Internet-enabled digital identities using information cards. Full Story

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