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Most people think of social media as exhibitionism through communication – a way to announce your product, your event, and your thoughts. But it’s actually much more than that.

Thanks to the legwork of volunteer/employer/sponsor Dave Patzwald, Infosys (www.infosys.com) is offering to cover the cost of i.c.stars to send 3-4 alu

UPDATE: the training vouchers have all been allocated. What remains is certification exam vouchers.
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we are finally in development stage for the next generation icstars site. mitch has been working on a new design and we have migrated the content from the vault to drupal 6 as our starting point.

on a recent bridges project we tried using a flash based object to cycle through images in a block for a site.

i downloaded and installed chrome tonight. i have not read anything online about what's under the hood, but the user experience for google apps is outstanding. email/calendar/docs all appear to be much more responsive than safari, which had felt faster than firefox and ie. i still much prefer safari's font engine and general feel, so my plan is to use chrome for google apps stuff, and have safari open for web stuff. http://www.google.com/chrome

The url for the i.c.stars wiki was changed this weekend from http://pmo.icstars.org/wiki to http://wiki.icstars.org

Cycles 14-16 will remember the challenge of presenting the currently assigned courses and cbo’s for the DePaul application. No other page in the entire system went through more rewrites.

Context:
The application is designed to facilitate the matching process between courses (which have students), and cbo’s (which need volunteers). The assignments table creates a many-to-many relationship between courses and cbo’s, where a single course has several cbo’s that will work with it, and a single cbo can work with many courses over time. The implementation was done using node referenced cck fields. You can see the datamodel here:
http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/1408817/M.jpg

Problem:

We had the chance to attend an interesting Executives Club meeting yesterday on Social Networking.

A few points I’m hoping to get the alumni group to chew on/inform:

1) facebook social graph - the idea that what you say, anywhere you say it, can automatically feed back to your facebook page. does this mean we should have a facebook widget on the vault so that your posts here automatically get posted on your facebook page?

2) second life (“in world”) - it was apparent that virtual meetings in second life have an advantage over webex and actual physical meetings in that you can present REALLY LARGE maps/diagrams of information that attendees can zoom all around to read. anyone have any candidates for how we might use that concept for virtual information sessions, e.g. timelines, project overviews?

3) second life II - we need someone to do research within second life to find out if it would be a good recruiting ground, and how to advertise in there most effectively.