{"id":3035,"date":"2016-02-03T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.hmc.edu\/ITNews\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:05:08","slug":"update-from-the-cio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/cis\/2016\/02\/03\/update-from-the-cio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from the CIO February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first update from the CIO for 2016.<\/p>\n

New faces and new groups at CIS<\/h2>\n

The key ingredient to CIS is the people. \u00a0We made a number of changes during summer 2016, and I wrote an article about this last October:\u00a0New faces and new groups at CIS<\/a>. Our regrets about two\u00a0 retirements were tempered by our excitement about three new hires.\u00a0 We also reorganized to reduce the number of units in CIS, and now have four people dedicated exclusively to Educational Technology.\u00a0 Since some people’s jobs have changed, your best bet is to contact the Help Desk when you have a service request.<\/p>\n

IT@TCC<\/h2>\n

A number of\u00a0 Consortium wide IT initiatives are under way and they will bring some major changes to IT at the Colleges.\u00a0 The impact should be positive from HMC’s perspective.\u00a0\u00a0 The areas being addressed this academic year include networking, identity and access management (IAM), telephony and security. I have more detail in the post on IT@TCC<\/a>.\u00a0 These initiatives have been set up to allow for lots of input from “functional users”, so please make sure to get involved if you have questions or ideas about how to proceed.<\/p>\n

Goodbye Majordomo<\/h2>\n

It is going to be a long farewell, but by now you should all be aware that we are transitioning from Majordomo to Google Groups for the HMC\u00a0 Mailing Lists.\u00a0 We have lots of reasons for doing this, and we are gaining some new and much needed automation.\u00a0 See the Goodbye Majordomo article<\/a> for more information about what’s done and what’s left to do.<\/p>\n

Awesome Videos<\/h2>\n

During the Fall, a nice coincidence happened. This year’s Computing Committee <\/a>with the intrepid Paul Steinberg at the helm, suggested that we should create short training videos as an alternative way of getting information out to people. “Sometimes a workshop is overkill”, they said.\u00a0 Independently and separately, at one of our staff meetings, Elly Schofield said “we should make some short videos…”.<\/p>\n

With that happy coincidence, we have started making what I think are awesome videos (a new meaning for “AV”).\u00a0 The first two are about Google Groups features, and were put together by Elly Schofield and Brian Reid:<\/p>\n