This amusing 5-minute video stars Brian Rosenberg, President of Macalester College, a private liberal arts college in Minnesota, USA:
I sent that video’s URL to the head of the university where I work. He has a sense of humor, so might appreciate it, but he’s not the type of performer Rosenberg is.
Our vice-chancellor is known for [...]
A compelling reason to weed out old content from your web site, or at least mark it clearly as outdated.
A tag cloud of more than 1000 university home pages. See also the snapshot data showing how many universities mention blogs on their home page, or use jscript, CSS for print, various coding standards, iTunes and [...]
In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:
Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
