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Our Newsletter Now Has a Name
As you can see from the masthead, we have a catchy
new name for the Miami Information Technology Newsletter.
"TechTalk" is the alias for the newsletter
if you want to access it directly—http://www.muohio.edu/techtalk/,
and "MiamiTechTalk" is the LISTSERV that you
may subscribe to for notification of a new issue.
110 students, faculty and staff contributed 282 suggestions,
and there were several names that were suggested more
than once. "Tech Talk" was suggested twice
within a very short period of time, so we have decided
to award two $100 gift certificates. Erin Bogart, a
Miami Senior, and Dr. Michele Dickey, a faculty member
in Teacher Education, suggested "Tech Talk"
and they each win a $100 gift certificate from the Bookstore.
Many thanks to all of you who put on your thinking caps
and came up with some very creative, humorous and imaginative
names. Thanks also to the ten people who had the very
hard task of choosing the best and most appropriate
name.
Beginning later this semester, Miami web-based
services that require authentication will "catch"
those who log in with a default MUnet password and
ask that the password be changed to another value.
For now, the password...
Announcing
the New LISTSERV Pages
Many of us participate in more than one electronic
mail list, or LISTSERV. We talk electronically with
colleagues about projects, problems, new information,
etc. Often someone subscribes us to a list and we
take the technology for granted, except perhaps
when at an odd moment we forget that our posting
goes to the whole list!
Haven't seen a virus alert lately? Think viruses
aren't really a problem? Think again . . .
While you may only periodically see widespread
virus alerts in the news media or at Miami, computer
viruses are a constant threat and a constant problem...
myMiami was launched in May, 2001, as a web portal
for all Miami University students, faculty, and
staff. So far, myMiami has been a very successful
project with peaks of 13,000 visitors per day using
the service which includes web-based e-mail.
Blackboard continues
to be a very successful service for Miami University.
This semester, over 700 Blackboard sites have been
created to support courses and other functions at
the university. In addition, the Miami University
Residence Halls have joined many other organizations
using Blackboard to disseminate information.
As the semester nears its finish, students of all
disciplines are completing final papers and projects.
Hours of hard effort have gone into these papers,
but many students rely on the flimsy piece of mylar
that is inside 3 1/4" floppy disks to store
this precious work. Others will use zip disks, and
many will use their personal computer's hard drive.
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