Monthly Archives: October 2011

IT from both sides of the executive table – closing sesssion

Posted on October 21, 2011 by dannanto

Three things to remember and know: – Leaders need to learn faster than the world is changing. – You don’t have to go it alone. – Higher Education matters more than it ever has before. Nov 6 – 9, 2012 … Continue reading →

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With IT strategy and why?

Posted on October 21, 2011 by dannanto

IT Strategy and why? Clouds, collaboration, contracts and contrarians? Lots of shifts and movements in many spaces.  what is our strategy at our various institiutions?  four person panels. What kind of future options and what type of organizations do you … Continue reading →

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IDM conversion to the cloud- Ahnmed El-Haggan

Posted on October 20, 2011 by dannanto

Interesting presentation.  Coppin is a small university.  They were able to move all their IDM to the cloud.  Freed up a lot of resource/effort.  They have a very simple environment, and were coming from a purely manual process.  No medical … Continue reading →

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Legal Challenges in Outsourcing

Posted on October 20, 2011 by dannanto

Conversation with Campus Counsel on current developments in IT outsourcing. Can I do something  – may i do something, what should I do?  what must I do? The Law sets out some boundaries.  only a portion of considerations.  also includes … Continue reading →

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Bleeding, Leading or Non-Competing – Duke

Posted on October 20, 2011 by dannanto

This session was a microcosm for how I am feeling now – idea overload!  They had a half dozen speakers, all on timed 5 minute slide decks, flying through an hours worth of information, and wondering why we looked like … Continue reading →

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Privacy in Social Media – Danah Boyd

Posted on October 20, 2011 by dannanto

Very interesting session.  Danah has some great insights into the young people of today, and the struggles that they are going through in learning how to use public media.  Here are my notes. zaforia.org/thoughts – her blog “kids dont care … Continue reading →

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Innovators – Aneesh Chopra

Posted on October 20, 2011 by dannanto

Wow, they had a lot of energy.  This was an interesting session.  I liked the content, but man I did not enjoy the delivery.  The main speaker reminded me of a used car salesman.  painful to sit through.  I sat … Continue reading →

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Outsourcing email to the cloud – Gordon Johnson (Western Kentucky U)

Posted on October 19, 2011 by dannanto

Session is on how WKU moved students and alumni to the cloud. 50K email accounts why go to the cloud? what were they worried about? -loss of control -security, privacy, confidentiality -ad supported -legal and ediscovery -performance and reliability Officially … Continue reading →

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Higher Ed’s role in the Identity Ecosystem

Posted on October 19, 2011 by dannanto

This was by far the best session and most informative for the IAM space.  Lots of great thoughts and ideas.  There are some very big entities involved in changing and creating identity provider infrastructures and frameworks that it will change … Continue reading →

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IT Metrics constituency group

Posted on October 19, 2011 by dannanto

Interesting working session.  We got together with the constituency group, talked through briefly some questions on standards and metrics, and then broke up into smaller groups to define and start working on standards for metrics that could then be published … Continue reading →

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