ITS Coffee Break #69: Moving Day

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On Episode #69 of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about the ITS web site’s move to WordPress and the launch of the new help.lafayette.edu web site for help documentation. They also discuss the upcoming Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Hampshire College this June and the creation of Lafayette-centric “personas” that can be used to test web applications. In Tech News they talk about tools for paper wireframing, the recent redesign of the Gawker family of blogs, and Adobe’s new Flash-to-HTML5 export tool. Finally in Help News they announce the new ITS events calendar.
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ITS Coffee Break #68: Spring Cleaning, iPad 2, Xoom

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On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about an upcoming trip to DrupalCon Chicago as well as the return of the ITS Blog. In Tech News they look at a web-based scheduling tool called Doodle as well as two newly released tablet computers: Apple’s iPad 2 and Motorola’s Xoom. Finally in Help News they explain how to work around a bug with Google Analytics and WordPress.

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ITS Coffee Break #67: Digress It, Talking Mobile, Strange Rain

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On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist discuss college mobile strategies, announce a change to authentication with Banner Self Service, and review Scribe, a new WordPress installation that uses the Digress It plugin for collaborative editing. In Tech News they take a look at Strange Rain, an interactive fiction app for the iPhone and iPad while in Help News they look at upcoming workshops and TNT sessions.

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