April 28, 2009 | In
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Familiar with Second Life? An old hand with your avatar? Then the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Resources, Training and Development (OHR) is looking for you!
The OHR is conducting a pilot project to study Second Life as a format for delivering training. Faculty and staff who are familiar with Second Life and have an avatar are invited to participate in this pilot.
April 24, 2009 | In
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The May UNC-Chapel Hill Webmasters meeting will discuss dynamic User Interface (UI) functionality for web applications with Fred Olivieri, a web developer on the ITS Enterprise Portal project. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 7 at 2 p.m. in ITS Manning 5102.
April 23, 2009 | In
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Are your PowerPoint presentations effective? Do they communicate your message to your audience?
“PowerPointed: Slide Design for Non-Designers,” is the topic of the May meeting of the
Instructional Applications Interest Group (IAIG). Learn how to improve your PowerPoint slide design on Wednesday, May 6 at 11:30 a.m. in Peabody Hall, Room 08F.
April 22, 2009 | In
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John McGarrigle, Ashley Willis and Stephen Braswell of ITS’ Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure group were recognized with a team award at the 17th Annual IT Awards on Tuesday, April 21.
April 20, 2009 | In
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ITS is encouraging green and sustainable environmental practices to conserve energy and resources and realize cost savings for the department and the University. A Sustainability Committee has been formed to evaluate ways large and small to be environmentally friendly.
April 17, 2009 | In
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He worked with “anything that could blow up,” was certified to handle nuclear weapons, learned to love pubs and English beer and credits his attendance at Ft. Lauderdale’s spring break as the reason it was banned the following year. Who is he? Read The Road to ITS to find out!
"The Road to ITS" appears monthly in
ITS News. If you would like to suggest a colleague to be featured in "The Road to ITS." please contact its_communications@unc.edu.
April 14, 2009 | In
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The deadline for Star Heel Award nominations has been extended to Friday, April 17.
“We know that there are many ITS employees who richly deserve this award,” said Leslie Kreizman, ITS Employee Council chair. “ITS has been allocated these awards based on the total number of permanent employees within the organization. If we don’t use these awards, we will lose them.”
April 14, 2009 | In
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Specifications for the newest generation of Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) laptop models are now available.
For the first time, there are four CCI laptop options. The ThinkPad X200 was added this year as a lightweight laptop option to complement the R400, W500 and X200 Tablet options. All four laptop models include integrated Bluetooth 2.0, Wireless (802.11 a/g/n) network adapters, a 1.3 megapixel Web cam and a Biometric Fingerprint Reader.
April 13, 2009 | In
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April 7, 2009 | In
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When Dennis Schmidt received requests for additional server space, he knew that he had to find a creative solution to the severe lack of server room space at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. As director of the School of Medicine’s Office of Information Systems, Schmidt was all too familiar with the need and the associated challenges.
After a tour of ITS Manning’s data center, Schmidt was so impressed with the facilities that he began exploring the idea of ITS hosting School of Medicine servers.
