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One More Year, and 'The Technology is [Still] the Easy Part!'
8/30/2007
has bought into and is promoting as, essentially, the academic version of LinkedIn. I highly recommend poking around in there, it's pretty cool--combining lots of features of course management, digital media access, virtual portfolios, and social networking--and you're about to hear more about it.No. 66
"The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born." Well, maybe not quite. Depends on how you define it. I know that in 1993 I was trying to decide between Gopher and WWW, but even though the consuming public may not have known about it, technically the World Wide Web was created in 1989.
You can decide for yourself: How much of what you've had to cope with, professionally, about the Web has been (a) a technology challenge, (b) a dollars challenge, (c) a policy challenge, (d) a content provision and monitoring challenge, (e) a branding issue, or (f) some combination of the above, but definitely with the "technology" part being the easiest part?
Interestingly, that's probably because the Web lets users do so much, which brings me to Terry's Second Law of Campus IT: "The less you let users do, the easier your job is, and vice versa." More about that in the future.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
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