Wednesday, October 19th from 7:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Speaker: Seth Godin
General Session: Invisible or Remarkable?
Description: The most precious commodity available today is attention. Best-selling author Seth Godin will describe the realities of our postindustrial world. It turns out that ideas that spread win, that stories rule, not facts, and that remarkable products and services are the most profitable and most likely to succeed. He will discuss how to avoid serving the meatball sundae, mismatching the new marketing with the old, and maintaining the status quo. He will also address how to ship products that make a difference, leadership as the most effective form of marketing for a new generation and a new economy, the privilege of becoming a linchpin, and the obligation to “poke the box.”

Thursday, October 20th from 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Danah Boyd
General Session: Privacy in an Era of Social Media
Description: There is a widespread myth that young people don’t care about privacy. Embedded in this myth is an assumption that participation in public social media services indicates a rejection of privacy. Yet, just because people want to participate in public life doesn’t mean that they want everything they do to go down on their permanent record or to be publicized for the whole world to see. This talk will examine the strategies that young people take to secure their privacy in highly public environments like Facebook and Twitter and why those in higher ed should care.

We can put as many firewalls and security measures in between our systems and the Internet as we can, but those measures are ineffective if individuals are careless with their log-in credentials.  Providing anyone with your user name and password gives that person total access to your e-mail account, and also provides access to IWU computer systems.

Information Technology Services WILL NEVER ASK YOU to provide us with your user name and password!  You may be asked to personally enter your log in credentials into one of our secure systems, but you should never provide anyone your user name and password via e-mail, phone, text message, etc.

The power outage was the cause of the DS3 outage.  Power for a device was moved to an outlet with backup power to correct the problem – 9:45am

PLEASE REMEMBER:  IT Services staff will NEVER ask you to send your e-mail password to us or any of our vendors.  You are privately in control of your password credentials and should never share your password with anyone.

This email is particularly concerning and, in an awkward sense, timely, as we are preparing our move to Google. During this move you WILL be asked to CHANGE your password, but that request will come through official and established University channels on a secure IWU web page.

If you’ve received one of the fake e-mail messages, do not reply to it.  Simply delete it. If you have replied, please contact IT Services immediately at (309) 556-3900. We’ll work with you on an individual basis to get your account secured and back to working order.

Dear “my.iwu.edu” Email Account Owner,

This message is from “”my.iwu.edu”" messaging center to all “my.iwu.edu” email account

owners.

We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account

center.

We are deleting all “my.iwu.edu” email accounts due to congestion just

to create more space for new accounts.

To prevent your account from being deleted you will have to update it by

providing the below informations so that we will know that it’s a present

used account.

We have been sending this notice to all our “my.iwu.edu” email account owners

and this is the last notice/verification exercise.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW

First Name: ……………..

Last Name:  ……………..

Username/ID: …………….

Password:   ……………..

Date of Birth: …………..

The keynote speaker this year was John Seely Brown.  The topic of Dr. Brown’s discussion was A New Culture of Learning for a World of Constant Change

The morning plenary on day two of the Summit began with a wonderful discussion entitled The Future of Liberal Education – Coffee and a Conversation with Drs. danah boyd, Michael Wesch, Bryan Alexander, Katie Conboy, and Rick Holmgren.

Update – 3/29/2011 – 1:00pm – Long Distance Phone service is restored.

We are sorry for any inconvenience the service interruption may have caused.

Diana Oblinger and  John Seely Brown will discuss how the vision presented in Brown’s new book A New Culture of Learning is likely to impact higher education.

See http://educause.informz.net/educause/archives/archive_1350478.html

for more details.

The OmniUpdate User Conference provides a a great opportunity to interact with the staff and developers from OmniUpdate, as well as your peers from colleges and universities across the country that are using OU Campus.