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Community

Campus Web Group meeting

LAMP Assessment Update

The Assessment is still on track. OIT has nearly completed examining the process of moving sites. We have identified a number of issues, some of which are raised in the Forum discussion, others of which are merely documented internally. The key lesson learned of interest to the community is simple:
the better your site is now, the easier it will be to move. Specifically:

  1. remove all orphan files
  2. make sure your pathing is consistent
  3. avoid blank spaces, punctuation, and mixed case in file and folder names

And, in general, follow Best Practices. If you do that, you will be well positioned for a move.

Skip also urged all site owners and maintainers to participate in the Forum discussion, as this is your opportunity to voice your concerns and questions while there's still time and still options!

Strategic Direction

There's a link on the Community site, but here's the url: http://boisestate.edu/webcenter/community/strategicdirections.shtml. Skip walked through the document briefly, but it's best for you to read it for yourself.

Google Search Appliance

This will be a fall initiative. The intent is to find ways to improve the results of campus searches. The first step will be for site owners to evaluation various search strings for themselves. Skip will gather the results. Then, based on those results, we will examine what changes might be made at the server and what changes might be made by the sites.

Skip will create some documents for this process. Watch for future news on this front.

Google Notebook

Skip was going to demonstrate this but was unable to get a projector, so he merely narrated. This being somewhat unsatisfying, here are some details and references.

What is it

Google Notebook (GN) is a Google service but is not part of Google Apps for Education. You may need to sign up. It's free, of course. There is also a GN plugin for Firefox, which Skip strongly recommended.

GN lets you log a page and to append notes to it. If this is all it did, it's not much more than bookmarks. In addition, it lets you add labels to notes, add multiple comments, create multiple notebooks, sections within notebooks, and lets you share notebooks. It also lets you highlight text on a page and have that automatically go into a note.

References

Google Notebook

Firefox Extension for Google Notebook

Google Groups Discussion of Google Notebook. The community of users of Notebook.

As with any app, search for tips: "google notebook tip" or "google notebook hack" will turn up a plethora (Jefe, do you even know what a plethora is?) of ideas. Not all will be useful, but everyone once in a while you'll strike gold.