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ITPF 2012 Posting Series, Part 1: Thoughts on the Opening Address, IT: A Platform for Agility, given by Andrea S. Ballingers

November 16, 2012 – 2:40 pm

To succeed in the ever changing, ever fast-paced world of information technology, you need agility according to Andrea S. Ballingers, Associate Vice President for Administrative Technologies at Illinois State University. She opened up by stating that we all have our own unique “super powers,” reflecting the comic book theme of this year’s Information Technology Professionals read more »

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Posting Series: Information Technology Professionals Forum (ITPF) 2012

November 16, 2012 – 2:38 pm

So some of us from #teamawesome made it out to this year’s forum. If you’ve never heard about this event, here’s their website: http://itproforum.illinois.edu/2012Fall/. I didn’t make it out to all the presentations but still made it to some interesting ones. I have some critiques and thoughts about what I hear from a library science point of view. read more »

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The World’s Going Mobile. How About You?

October 4, 2012 – 8:59 am

Over here in ITD, we love to give workshops. One of them is on tablets and e-readers. In case, some thought that the subject wasn’t that big of a deal, they might not have noticed what has been going on this fall. No worries though. We’ve got it summarized for you in this handy post. read more »

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Keeping up with the times

September 12, 2012 – 6:23 pm

It is the middle of September! Which can only mean the latest fall fashions are out and especially the new fall tech. Today, Apple is unveiling the Iphone 5. Amazon has already released its Kindle Fire. New apps are coming up everywhere. Most importantly perhaps though, Windows 8 will soon be out this October and read more »

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Meeting the Ladies Who Lunch (& Program Java while Raising Twins and Running a Start-Up)

September 6, 2012 – 3:47 pm

I am a fan of lunch. Particularly, free lunch. Anytime there is such an announcement on campus I immediately check my schedule, make sure I can get to where-ever the food is, and RSVP in record time. When I was informed about such an event from our darling Help Desk supervisor Jill, I jumped at read more »

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OSX Lion Review

December 23, 2011 – 3:01 pm

Features Much like the move from Leopard to Snow Leopard, it’s hard to see immediate changes from Snow Leopard in Lion (beyond the slightly muted color pallet throughout the OS). However, spend just a few minutes actually using Cupertino’s newest version of OSX, and changes start coming out of the woodwork. Multi-Touch Right from the read more »

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Additional Software Options for Students, Part 2

July 20, 2011 – 1:37 pm

This is part 2 of additional software options for students. Once again, if you would like a program added to the list, please leave a comment! Audio Editors: Have some audio files you want to edit? Maybe you’d like to do a few book talks to post to your online portfolio. Aviary is a browser-based read more »

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Additional Software Options for Students, Part 1

July 6, 2011 – 1:19 pm

Many of the services listed are either free, have free versions with lower capacities/less features, or low cost to GSLIS students. Some, like Omnigraffle, are the Mac equivalent of a Windows program. It’s also always worth checking what is available on the UIUC software webstore. If you see anything you’d like to vouch for and read more »

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Resources for Preparing your Presentation in Elluminate

December 3, 2010 – 8:27 pm

LEEP students will no doubt want to know as much as they can about Elluminate technology so that their presentations go off without a hitch.  So put your headsets and microphones on and get ready to run the audio set-up wizard yet again because it’s almost time to present your final projects for the Fall read more »

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