I am attending the SunGard HE Summit Conference in Philadelphia, PA this week. I taught a 2 hour EA Intro workshop, that I will blog on later and am on a panel session about our work in redesigning the Student information system using SOA and UX.
I am trying something new at this conference; using Twitter as my notetaker (my Twitter name is leodesousa). I am using my own tag #sghes09 and tweeting on the content of the sessions I attended. I will be using TwitterSearch to pull all of my tweets together and see if I can get a chronological log of my conference experience and learnings. Note SunGard HE is on twitter and are using the #sghesummit tag. Stay tuned …
Here is the Twitter Search to get my timeline of notes (I messed up a couple times with my personal tag):
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sghe09+OR+sghes09
Our Web Services team delivered some real cool innovative projects in the past 6 months. In partnership with our Marketing & Communications and Student Recruiting departments, our team has launched two new approaches to communicating about BCIT and recruiting students to come study here.
Leveraging our public web properties as well as blending social media tools like YouTube, Drupal Blog and Twitter, the team built whatwouldyouchange.ca and 3 BLOG Nights. The 3 BLOG Nights initiative is running right now and you should check it out. You can search Twitter using #3bn. Each year BCIT runs a Big Information Session and Program Expo to “provide a unique opportunity for people interested in attending BCIT to find out more about BCIT’s full-time programs and part-time courses and programs all in one place, at one time”. This year we are extending Big Info (which usually runs in one evening) into 4 days/3 nights - 67 hour event by leveraging live blogging, twittering and video shoots all about BCIT, our programs, faculty and most importantly our students!
We have a very talented group in our Web Services team and they are really pushing the boundaries to leverage open source tools to create more attention for BCIT and in turn generate new students! Great job team and will be checking in regularly on Twitter!
Day 2 @ Educause – Preconference Session
I registered for two preconference sessions …
Aligning IT Leadership with Institutional Missions: The Reality of Being a CIO
The session was lead by 4 CIOs. The session had about 60 attendees. Each of the 4 presenters took turns talking about various factors that a CIO needs to align with in order to be successful. Some key points:
- have a prepared short message about several key topics so your are ready to communicate when you get a chance
- Culture is important – build your team with people who have a customer service approach ( also refer to Jim Collins “Good to Great”)
- Identity Management will drive the creation of a service team made up of IT, HR and Registrar Office staff
- as a CIO book regular meetings with your key stakeholders – proactive communication
- when making architecture decisions; it is not just yes or no – try “whoa” so a discussion can occur
I found the discussion and Q and A sessions with the attendees to be very valuable on various levels.
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