My role in mobile initiatives for campus

My 3 Main Areas of Focus:

Technology Services – Research into mobile platforms
Steering Group – Cross-campus collaborations
Informal campus community – Starting a conversation with all of campus

Prezi – brief overview of my role

Tech Services Research

Working with Office of the CIO (Randy Cetin) on Technology Services specific mobile initiatives and strategies. The goal is for Technology Services to find optimal solutions for services that students, faculty and staff need for mobile that we can provide at scale.

Connecting Campus Resources

I am working to help try to connect appropriate resources across campus. I am hoping to bridge units all across campus to help provide students (and faculty and staff) a better mobile experience here at the University. This includes partnering with AITS on a mobile app to help Technology Services Networking gain valuable network diagnostics, a possible API data warehouse to store all the useful data and webservices across campus, as well as other potential Technology Services mobile projects.

Possible Vendor Solutions

In addition to campus resources, I help research possible vendor solutions. Such work includes: possible development platforms, location-based wayfinding solutions, api creation, services to port websites into mobile apps, etc… I am trying to help determine if 3rd-party vendors can provide value to Technology Services and the rest of campus.

Communication

I would like to do more in this arena in regards to communications with campus and gathering more resources for students. We have mobile services that they don’t even know exist, let’s get them out there. Same for IT Pros – they could use some resources when it comes to mobile development, let’s help them out.

Steering Group

This group grew organically from various interested parties gathering across campus. It is a growing group of people who meet regularly to discuss and work together towards improving the campus mobile experience.

Detailed info about the group

Key Points:

Improve communication with campus
- what apps, services and resources exist? share that info
Connecting resources
- putting the pieces together – get the right people together to discuss projects that can be done collaboratively
Engage students
- find out what students *actually* want or need on their mobile devices, let them play an active role in making that happen

Getting Student Input:

Surveyed students to get their direct input – started with focus groups, developed IRB approved online survey

Gathering results – working on ways to meet student needs

Getting more input – Keep working with students

Just getting started!

We can’t wait to keep engaging students, collaborating and moving the campus forward.

Informal Community

Creating a community of individuals all across campus who want to discuss mobile. Coordinate semi-regular meetings where folks can gather and talk to each other, and includes a guest speaker or two to discuss specific topics of interest. Trying to create a community of people to help connect resources that currently exist and learn about exciting projects or ideas for projects all around campus.