A leading cause of departmental siloes is that everyone is accessing and possibly creating their own data, and inefficiency is created by making the action of sharing, compiling and then assessing this data an action at all. There is rarely a widely accessible central...
I want to encourage everyone that lives in or near Bloomington to join in on playing what is going to be a great game. It is called "Taming the Butterfly" and it is put together by Kevin Makice and Christian Briggs. They are my buddies that I worked with for a year at...
A day might be coming when the power of Facebook means that major companies no longer bother with their own Web sites. That was the startling if self-promotional possibility sketched out by Stephen Haines, commercial director of Facebook's U.K. operation, while speaking...
I really need to go back and study his writings closer. An incredible mind!
IU has a large crow population living in the woods of the old quad. I caught this one on the top of the clock tower. Maybe the crow should be the new IU mascot!
This is definitely a game-changer! Ignore at your own peril. Source: The 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review (PDF Download)
I just read this excellent article by Kevin Carey. If anyone works in higher education, it is worth a few minutes of your time to read it. He chronicles the path of higher education that most colleges and universities in the U.S. have taken over the last 100+ years. While...
