NC State went Google a few months ago for all students, and will soon be moving all employees too. One of the things that Google does for some of the larger schools is to send a video crew to do a set of interviews about the move. Well, today was our day for the video [ Read More ]
Today was a regular “return from White Lake” day…….we got up…..had breakfast made by Melody’s mom, and then drove back to Raleigh. When I got back home, I had an answer from one of Melody’s friends who I’m doing a website for. It’s a super tight timeline..she needs it done by the 1st, but i’ll [ Read More ]
My buddy sent this tweet today: which linked to this image: I responded with the truth: which linked to this image: truth!
[EDIT: FOLLOW UP POSTED 2010-07-28] Today was the day our Employee email task force met with the CIO to discuss our recommendation that Google Apps could meet the needs of employees. Within the first 10 minutes of the meeting, a bombshell dropped: 3 of the task force members had secretly written a “minority” report, or [ Read More ]
Today marked the end…..well….almost the end of a very long project. I’ve been part of the task force at NC State University to migrate all the student accounts to Google Apps. Today marked the day when we reached the end of the largest population of accounts that we were moving. About 10 days ago, we [ Read More ]
Today I gave a presentation to the NC State Web Developers about Google Analytics. We had about 35 people attend, which was a fairly good turnout, and while i was happy that we have an interested community, I was simultaneously becoming more nervous about presenting. You see, I’m not an expert on Google Analytics…at least [ Read More ]
Today was the start of a new task force/committee at work. This one is to decide on the next email system at NC State for Employees. We’ve already decided that Google is going to be the system for students, but now we need to figure out if it will work for employees. Anyone who knows [ Read More ]
Today i spent the day at UNCG (University of North Carolina at Greensboro for you Aussies), for a meetup of some of the colleges and universities who have deployed Google Apps at their institutions. It was a pretty good mix of people who attended, but we (NC State) definitely took the most people. Out of [ Read More ]
I would have thought that today’s blog would have been more difficult because of all the things i learned and saw at Google today. But in fact, it’s fairly easy. Mainly because our meeting material was strictly under Non-Disclosure-Agreements. So…no juicy insider knowledge is going to get out here. What I can say, is what [ Read More ]
Today, we launched Google Apps for NC State. We ran into a few delays, but eventually got the invitations out at around 4pm. Within a few minutes, we had topped 50 people signing up. By 2 hours, we had over 500. By the next morning, we had over 1000. Students want Google, and I’m so [ Read More ]
