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Events calendaring vs. room/space reservation systems...
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Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?
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Rick Gould replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Events calendaring vs. room/space reservation systems..."We use Google Calendaring - we have Google Apps for Education so all of our employees have access to the Calendar. We have also setup our meeting rooms and other shared resources that can be invited to the meeting.
We also have public…"
Daniel Bashaw replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Events calendaring vs. room/space reservation systems..."A timely topic for us as well! We are running MRBS for resource booking (http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/) and Calcium as an event calendar (http://www.brownbearsw.com/calcium/) and I am looking for modern mobile- and tablet-friendly replacements for…"
Doug Thompson posted a discussionEvents calendaring vs. room/space reservation systems...
Currently, we're using Ad Astra for room/space reservation and UNL Event Publisher for our public events calendar.While this setup works, there's still quite a bit of manual intervention to get data out of Ad Astra and into a pleasing-to-the-user presentation in UNL Event Publisher.It has been a couple years since we arrived at this solution, so I was wondering if there have been any recent developments or suggestions of alternative systems that accomplish these types of functionality in a…See More
David Anderson replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"We're also using Intervals here at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. We've been using it for just over two years. I looked into a number of project management tools before selecting Intervals.
We use it for everything from…"
Patrick Burt replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"We have used an in-house developed and IT supported Sharepoint site for print projects and ActiveCollab (http://www.activecollab.com) for web and development projects. We are currently looking a new options to use one system instead of two.…"
Erik Runyon replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"Another vote for TeamworkPM. Working out great for us."
James Burke replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"I'll second this. I use Trello on a daily basis and it's my go-to for project management."
Daniel Bashaw replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"I just found out about Intervals recently. It looks like it has an interesting combination of support ticket and time tracking features. We need that combination for our IT department and help desk, so I'm considering it as a possible system…"
Juliana Perry replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"We really like TeamworkPM as well! I like Basecamp for simple projects, but it couldn't handle task dependencies well, and lacked some other features we wanted. TeamworkPM was a good option in terms of having a lot of features and flexibility…"
awade replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"We've been pretty successful with a product called intervals. http://www.myintervals.com. It's very "billable hour" oriented (which we don't really use) and has decent amount of features. The big hurdle for us was being able…"
Daniel Bashaw replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"The larger planned proactive projects might benefit from the tools you are considering, but they will probably be too much overhead for the stream of smaller and essential-but-reactive projects that we all have to deal with as part of our flow.
For…"
Matt Herzberger replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Higher-ed Project Management...Podio? 5pm? Basecamp? Something else?"I would highly recommend http://www.teamworkpm.net/index.cfm we have been using it for approx 2 years. We had tried basecamp (the old version) which didnt work well for us and this has worked great."
Daniel Bashaw replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Robust online faculty/staff/office directory system?"To add a specific twist to the question, has anyone created a directory system like this in WordPress, perhaps using plugins or Types and Views? As a smaller university with hundreds rather than thousands of directory entries, something built in WP…"
Doug Thompson replied to Doug Thompson's discussion Robust online faculty/staff/office directory system?"Rather than specific solutions, if anyone has any good examples of well-done pages/sites of this nature, that would be great to have as well..."
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Daniel Bashaw replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"Hi Kimbel -- Does you manual process include a checklist and workflow documentation?
If not, it sounds to me like checklists and schedulers are your best next steps. You can structure and document what you do now, and then look at it to see if there…"
Kimbel Jeffers replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"The problem is we use a manual process right now and things keep falling through the cracks."
Annette Spearman replied to Derek Tonn's discussion Freelance web design recommendations (small projects)"Hi Derek,
We can help you! I'll in box you all my info so we can connect and set up some time to talk.
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We're conducting our annual survey on Facebook and Admissions. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at:http://www.varsityoutreach.com/FacebookSurvey/Our GoalOur goal is to explore trends related to how schools are using Facebook to reach out to prospective and admitted students.How Is the Data Used?All data will be shown in the aggregate. Answers from individual schools will not be released and will remain…See More
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faris ahmed commented on social networking web design's blog post Megastar Media Webby Award Honorees"wow thats amazing article .
your stuff never fails to amaze me
honestly . great work as always :D
something i would like to add in is that
the entries each year are rapidly increasing .
but i think thats cause they take the…"
Lynn Zawie posted a discussionFreelance Web Developer Needed
Stony Brook University web team is looking for some help coding a new design. HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Responsive Design expertise needed. If you are interested in bidding on this project, I am happy to share more details. Work would need to begin early summer. ..LynnSee More
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Great blog post by Higher Education Marketing on leveraging Google pay-per-click ad extensions for higher ed."
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Norma J Dowell replied to Derek Tonn's discussion Freelance web design recommendations (small projects)"Hi Derek!
First of all, apologies for taking so long to respond! Secondly, I am not your web developer for such an issue, but if you can find someone to pick their brain and use as a sounding board, it may be all you need. In the past, when I…"
Daniel Bashaw replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"Hi Kimbel.
I know you've been tasked with finding a software solution, though I'm wondering if you may need an interim step first: Does your institution have checklists covering all of the steps needed in on-boarding, relocating, and…"
Kimbel Jeffers posted a discussionOffice Reservation software
I've been tasked with finding a software tool that helps manage the onboarding and exit process of new and departing faculty. Ultimately i would like this software to management faculty office interms of when resources can be removed from a particular office and when a new faculty member can be moved in with the necessary resources. This tool should have notifications and alerts so there are no conflicts with someone being removed from a office and someone being placed in a office. Does anyone…See More
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Sarah McMaster replied to Katra Farah's discussion Online chat interfaces"Thanks, Daniel. We don't currently have any livechat solution so this is new fact-finding territory for us! I will keep the forum posted as/if we are able to move forward."
Daniel Bashaw replied to Katra Farah's discussion Online chat interfaces"In our case the impact of our current proprietary chat tool seems to be minimal, as it is little-used. It requires log-in with contact details and is slow to load. I don't have any metrics on its impact to back up my perception though.
I expect…"
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