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October 1st, 2009 | 
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In case you fine folks missed it, you have got to check out NC State’s new twitter site, http://twitter.ncsu.edu. It is a joint project between our group and Web Communications that was launched on September 8th, and we now have over 60 organizations tweeting on campus and you can find them all here.
While everyone working on the project thought it was really cool, I think we were all pleasantly surprised by the awesome reaction that we have gotten from other folks in the Higher Education community. The day after we launched the site, the twitterverse was buzzing about the site. Here are just a few tweets that I found particularly encouraging.
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After several months of preparation and planning, we’re proud to announce the launch of the new NC State Mobile website – a collaborative project encompassing the efforts of groups all across campus.
The NC State mobile presence is a convenient place to find campus news and contacts while on the go. You can find the closest bus stop and watch a video on NCSU’s mobile YouTube channel while you wait!
The new NC State mobile site supports any type of web enabled device from the most basic cell phone to the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
No matter where you are, you can get your NC State fix with ease.
We’re already at work on improving your mobile NC State experience, too. Soon, we’ll be adding features like maps, dining hall menu information, and sports scores.
Check it out now at m.ncsu.edu from any mobile device!
We here at Outreach Technology are big into open source software. If you’re not familiar with the concept of open source, the Open Source Initiative defines it as “a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.”
That’s exactly what we’re interested in for our digital sign management software, Billboard. We’ve been wanting to make it a real-life open source application that anyone can contribute to and join for a long time now and we’ve finally gotten the time to get it off the ground. Because there is some confusion on NC State’s campus about the differing hosted versions of the software, we are referring to our new open source version as BillboardCE, or Billboard Community Edition. This will ensure there is no confusion about version numbers.