Microsoft Hosting Windows in Higher Education Conference

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Mar 302009
 

Today (Mar 30) and through to Wednesday (Apr 1), Microsoft is hosting the Windows in Higher Education Conference on their Redmond Campus. Pretty handy for us as it is a short 2.5 hour drive south from Vancouver. Over 40 higher education organizations are represented with just over 100 folks attending.  The Twitter hash tag for this conference is #winhied. I will be tweeting on this conference … follow me on Twitter.

I am having lunch with Nick Malik today. Really looking forward to the dialogue. Nick writes the Inside Architecture blog and is one of the best EA blogs going. His posts are must reads for me as I continue to learn and progress in Enterprise Architecture.

 Posted by Leo de Sousa at 10:56  Tagged with: , ,

Trying Twitter as My Notetaker

 conference, education, higher education  1 Response »
Mar 242009
 

I am attending the SunGard HE Summit Conference in Philadelphia, PA this week. I taught a 2 hour EA Intro workshop, that I will blog on later and am on a panel session about our work in redesigning the Student information system using SOA and UX.

I am trying something new at this conference; using Twitter as my notetaker (my Twitter name is leodesousa). I am using my own tag #sghes09 and tweeting on the content of the sessions I attended. I will be using TwitterSearch to pull all of my tweets together and see if I can get a chronological log of my conference experience and learnings. Note SunGard HE is on twitter and are using the #sghesummit tag. Stay tuned …

Here is the Twitter Search to get my timeline of notes (I messed up a couple times with my personal tag):

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sghe09+OR+sghes09

 Posted by Leo de Sousa at 14:31  Tagged with: , ,

Wielding Web Technologies to Recruit Students

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Mar 052009
 

Our Web Services team delivered some real cool innovative projects in the past 6 months.  In partnership with our Marketing & Communications and Student Recruiting departments, our team has launched two new approaches to communicating about BCIT and recruiting students to come study here.

Leveraging our public web properties as well as blending social media tools like YouTube, Drupal Blog and Twitter, the team built whatwouldyouchange.ca   and 3 BLOG Nights.  The 3 BLOG Nights initiative is running right now and you should check it out. You can search Twitter using #3bn.   Each year BCIT runs a Big Information Session and Program Expo  to “provide a unique opportunity for people interested in attending BCIT to find out more about BCIT’s full-time programs and part-time courses and programs all in one place, at one time”.  This year we are extending Big Info (which usually runs in one evening) into 4 days/3 nights - 67 hour event by leveraging live blogging, twittering and video shoots all about BCIT, our programs, faculty and most importantly our students!

We have a very talented group in our Web Services team and they are really pushing the boundaries to leverage open source tools to create more attention for BCIT and in turn generate new students!   Great job team and will be checking in regularly on Twitter!

 Posted by Leo de Sousa at 11:43  Tagged with: , ,
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