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RSA Conference

Posted on February 14, 2017 by dannanto

John Lithgow Pretty cool opening for the keynote.  They had John Lithgow the guy from Third Rock from the sun.  He talked about the importance of security technicians.  He then described what the world would be like without security professionals. … Continue reading →

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MS Office 365 for Education

Posted on June 12, 2012 by dannanto

Agenda: what it means to have Office 365 for education and what is the upgrade/migration plan for live@edu? Office 365 core: Office, Lync, Sharepoint, Exchange Everyone upgraded from live@edu moves into an Exchange plan 1 by default. other options cost.  … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Keynote – Antoine LeBlonde

Posted on June 12, 2012 by dannanto

Today – desktop discussions.  Windows 8 Just sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7.  based fundamentally on windows 95 designs.  In the past, mostly we used desktops.  today, laptops outnumber desktops.  future – going to be tablets.  future is … Continue reading →

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TechEd 2012 – First Impressions

Posted on June 11, 2012 by dannanto

I will never get over how many people come to this conference.  There must be over 10 thousand people here.  Will probably get the actual numbers during the keynote.  Couple of items that I want to learn at this conference: … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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Just for Matt

Posted on October 19, 2011 by dannanto

Update 10/20/2011: Just to update, I went back through vendor central again and the MS folks were much busier this time.  More folks around.  So maybe I just had caught them on a break.  Still think their presentation and setup … Continue reading →

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Ponder time

Posted on October 19, 2011 by dannanto

One of the things I like about Educause is that there is time to sit back and ponder and evaluate.  Just finished lunch (didn’t want to eat with the thousands in the chow lines so walked across to Reading Mall … Continue reading →

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