Institutional Knowledge

Our friend Stewart Mader is putting out 21 Days of Wiki Adoption videos. Even if you are already going with your wiki project, there will be some episodes worth watching.

Rock on, Stewart.

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Not long after the Virginia Tech shootings there was an article on the College Web Editor blog asking if Twitter could be used for emergency communications. I argued that this would be a poor use of Twitter and of campus resources in a situation where resources are critical. I still stand by my […]

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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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Hello Blog Readers,

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted something to Institutional Knowledge as I’ve been buried in Ruby code working on our upcoming Omni Project; but Enough about that.

Pat pointed out an interesting link today on the College Web Editor blog about prospective students using Flickr to take virtual tours of campus. […]

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Wherein we get with the times.

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Wherein we experiment with microformats.

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Scott came back from SXSW all jazzed about microformats …and really, who could blame him? It’s something so simple and easy to implement (it’s just markup) that to not embrace them is an act of stubborness.

But the first step in taking advantage of a microfomat is knowing of it’s existence. For that, we […]

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The latest rage in the world of web-dev is “mashing” or in laymens terms, taking data from multiple sources and blending it together to form a new view on an old thing. I’d been kicking around ideas of how to incorporate the coolness that is Google Maps with campus related information.

One of the first […]

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