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Web Site Highlights Campuswide Role

Faster Connectivity At Home? Could Be

LEAD Report Released

Linux: A Realistic Alternative to Windows?

Virtual History: Web Site for Teachers

New Open-Access Lab in Surge IV

Do I Really Need This?

Move Over Godzilla: Mothra Web Site Revamp

Results of Windows 2000 Professional Tests

When 348 Open Files Are Not Enough

Biting the Bullet on the World Wide Web

TAPS Goes Online

IT Staff in the News

Letters to the Editor

Volume 8, Number 6
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IT Staff in the News

 
IT Staffers Cited for Excellence
Debbie Edwards, campus Email Postmaster, Brigitte Moon, Office Manager, IT-Information Resources, and Sandra Duncan, Analyst, IT-Communications Resources, have received UC Davis Staff Assembly Citations for Excellence for their accomplishments in the areas of General Contributions and Campus Service.

photo of Brigitte MoonMoon was nominated by campus clients for her work spanning three years in getting Veterans Day declared a University holiday.

photo of Sandra DuncanDuncan was noted for "providing high caliber client support within unrealistic deadlines, juggling numerous and competing priorities, and maintaining a calm approach to problem solving while pressures swirl all around."

photo of Debbie EdwardsEdwards was chosen for "consistently providing prompt, effective, and cheerful assistance.... The nominee is an exemplary and professional UC Davis employee who has a critical responsibility in managing the email system and all of its complex intricacies and in assisting thousands of campus subscribers and the general public on a weekly basis."

The awards will be announced during the TGFS BBQ on Wednesday, May 10, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at the Putah Creek Lodge.

 
IT Staffer's Band to Perform at TGFS
photo of musical group called Dog With a BoneBudget Analyst, John Spurr, and his band Dog with a Bone will perform at this year's TGFS Luncheon on May 10 at the Putah Creek Lodge. This trio combines swingin' boogie-woogie, rock/pop commentary, bluesy love balladry, breezy Caribbean, and western sounds around a foundation of tight three-part harmony. Band members (pictured left to right in the photo) are Spurr (electric guitar), Billy Fairfield (the founder of Mumbo Gumbo, on piano and accordian), and George Haver (acoustic guitar). For more information on the band, visit their Web site at http://www.dogwithabone.com/.

BBQ tickets will be available for $6 at the Putah Creek Lodge on the day of the event.

 
Kent Kuo Offers Advice on Mentoring
The most recent edition of EDUCAUSE Review (March/April 2000) contains an article on mentoring by Kent Kuo, Associate Director, IT-Communications Resources. In "The Power of Mentoring," Kuo outlines the importance of mentoring in the overall efforts of an organization to cultivate and retain their most talented people.

Kuo argues that mentoring "requires both time and perserverance" and that it is an essential component of a necessary strategy to "move away from a model ... of hiring a limited number of highly paid and highly trained professionals and loading them with work." The IT organization of the future, Kent contends, must focus on developing in-house staff and providing them with "career paths" of advancing technical skills and salaries.

For the full text of Kuo's article, visit http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0025.pdf.

 
Instructional Media Provides First Live Event Webcast at UC Davis
On April 10, IT's Instructional Media (IM) Development group was asked to cover a memorial service held in Freeborn Hall for the victims of the March 27 boat accident in the Sea of Cortez.

IM rolled the remote truck and two cameras to produce a video tape but also streamed the event live over the Web. A link was coordinated between IM Web programmers and the UC Davis campus Web page that delivered a live full-motion stream relayed from the site directly to the desktops of viewers at UC Davis, UC Office of the President, and other UC campuses.

"I want to convey my appreciation for [IM's] quick and thorough responsiveness to our request to videostream the memorial service on our research expedition Web page and to provide copies of the memorial videotape to the families of those who perished in the Sea of Cortez," says Maril Stratton, Director, Public Communications. "The video is beautifully done, and I know it will be of comfort to the families and treasured by the victims' children as they grow. Thanks so much for helping the campus appropriately honor the memories of those whose lives were so tragically lost."

 
IT at the Campus Service Fair

photo of Marianne Post and Kerie Holck of Creative Communications Services at the recent Campus Service Fair

Marianne Post and Kerie Holck of IT Creative Communication Services share a laugh with a visitor to the IT-Repro Graphics booth at the recent Campus Service Fair. IT services displayed at the fair ranged from computer and printer repair to telecommunications to graphic design and communications.