TIES 2007: Policies 2.0, Rules for the Social Web

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

The Blue Skunk himself put in an appearance at this year's TIES conference. Doug is presenting about the social web and some issues that schools encounter trying to understand it. Doug's handouts are posted on his blog. In particular, a large list of links are on this PDF version of ...

TIES 2007: Implementing IT Best Practices

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

We've been preparing to implement the ITIL standards in my district for about a year now. Now that five of us have achieved the foundation certification, I think we're poised to make some significant headway this year. This presentation from the TIES Conference is a description of some of the ...

TIES 2007: Kurt Steinhaus, opening keynote

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Kurt Steinhaus is Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Education in New Mexico. (He's also a marathoner who ran 4:38 at the 2007 Duke City Marathon.) The title of his talk is "Enjoying T-Time by the Sip or by the Gulp?". His slides will be available on the conference wiki. Kurt wants us ...

TIES 2007: Introducing Virtualization Technology

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Here are some notes from my presentation about virtualization technology. I'll update this post after my session to cover some of the topics that come up in the discussion. Learn more about virtualization An Introduction to Virtualization by Amit Singh The Pros and Cons of Virtualization Server virtualization at InfoWorld Intro to Virtualizaton and Virtualization ...

Upcoming TIES presentations

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

I'll be at this year's TIES Conference next Monday and Tuesday doing a couple presentations, connecting with old friends and colleagues, and scoping out the vendors. If you're in the neighborhood, here's the info on my presentations. I decided to go a little more geeky for a change this year. ...