Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we write down some stuff that we know.

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Entries from June 2007

Today’s thoughts

June 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Would anyone notice if I set an “Out of Office on Vacation” response in Outlook for the whole summer? Hell hath no fury like a state bureaucracy in the summer… “x-10-shun” should be a suitable replacement for “x” when listing phone number extensions Why do we continue to keep the lights on for an entire floors of buildings […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Fear and loathing the “chicopedia”

June 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments

We’ve been running a Confluence Pilot [insert word that rhymes with ‘roject’] for the last couple of months to see if it would be a feasible tool to help departments within Information Resources, and potentially campus at large, collaborate on projects.

The other day, we caught wind that Confluence had been described in a meeting as […]

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Tags: Web 2.0

Pulling back the curtain

June 4th, 2007 · No Comments

From time to time we in WEBD poke and prod at some development stuff. We look at new technologies and new techniques that we feel might be able to enhance the campus web presence or the help our end-users in some manner. Today, we launched a “beta” of a new Campus Search page that we’ve […]

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Tags: Web Development