http://keeneweb.org/online What we're doing, and why we're doing it. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:30:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Privacy concerns are central to the good stewardship of any online, non-news communication. Luckily, most of these can be quickly resolved by answering this simple question: "Did this person give me specific, prior permission to publish this personal information?" If so, if they knowingly opted-in, and you're golden. If not, ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/06/16/privacy-best-practiced/ Back in my Windows NT/2000 server admin days, we'd occasionally receive a large package in the mail from our server vendor. Those of us in charge of the servers would set the package down on a table in the break room and eye it with fear and loathing as beads ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/06/02/keeneweb-upgrade-update/ I've added a link on the home page to the online giving form. It links directly to the form -- next week Evan's going to tweak the form so that the form provides a link back to the general stuff if that's what the user wants, but for now they ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/16/give-to-keene-state-online/ The blogging workshop turned out to be a huge success, with about twenty people showing up (I'm horrible at estimating headcounts, so feel free to correct me there). The questions were good, and the feedback I've gotten since the presentation has been positive. The goal of the presentation was to show ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/14/blogging-workshop/ We will be upgrading our Wordpress Multi-user software from v1.3 to v1.5.1 sometime next week, probably Monday morning. Upgrading WPMu tends to be a bit of an adventure and sometimes things can happen, so your blog may be down for a bit during the upgrade. This upgrade includes some new ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/14/wpmu-upgrade-in-the-offing/ We're soft-launching Keene and After -- the new alumni social networking site. We started today by sending out 113 invites to the Class of 1988 and watching closely what happened. So far we have a signup rate of about three percent -- which is a little depressing. Since these emails ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/13/keene-and-after-launched-sort-of/ As you may know, we're gearing up to launch an Alumni site using Ning, a "personal Facebook" type of software. The first email invites are going out today. Well, not exactly the first invites. And therein lies a story. See, before I launched this, I tried a little experiment and invited a ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/13/ning-death-syndrome-aka-the-dead-shark-problem/ We have a new addition to our office -- Evan Young, who comes to us via the Development Office. Evan is a generalist who developed expertise in Datatel while working at World Learning in Vermont. While the number of Datatel projects we have going while consume most of his time (especially ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/12/please-welcome-evan-young-to-online-communications/ The latest issue of Newsline is up. Commencement is front and center, but the monthly journal also talks about our student team's EPA award, LEED certification for Pondside III, the KSC 100 blog... and the sad news of the passing of Kate Phillips, a former professor of mine. Here she is ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/09/may-newsline-is-up-and-a-note-about-kate-phillips/ I'm a little late on posting this, but the catalog has been launched. There's no major new online features here, really just a laborious transcription of the paper catalog into HTML, and our standard reimagining of some parts. It's interesting -- when I first got here we were recoding every catalog ... http://keeneweb.org/online/2008/05/05/catalog-launched/