{"title":"Revisiting institution-wide e-mail: spamming our own","authors":"J. Ashworth","doi":"10.1145/333668.333678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333668.333678","url":null,"abstract":"Issues involved with sending e-mail messages to every member of an institution of higher education vary from institution to institution, are many and have been discussed before. (See \"Drowning in Our Success: Institution-wide Electronic Mail Messages,\" published in the SIGUCCS Newsletter, March/June 1997 issue.)","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115603413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Web design and maintenance","authors":"J. Berkman","doi":"10.1145/333668.333674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333668.333674","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few years, there has been a transformation from publishing documentation on paper to publishing online on the Web. Unlike publishing on paper, we do not have a wealth of experience in publishing via the Web. This paper discusses some guidelines for making Web publishing more valuable.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"167 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125980971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Be careful...","authors":"Terris B. Wolff","doi":"10.1145/333668.333676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333668.333676","url":null,"abstract":"I am sure that at one time or another you have heard some version of this statement: \"Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it!\" It's a warning not to be ignored. While asking for something, we tend to be aware of only the positive aspects of that item, only the potential immediate gratification. But what of the down side of attaining this sometimes long sought after goal?","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128839879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Copyright and technology innovation in higher education","authors":"S. Stager","doi":"10.1145/300619.300622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/300619.300622","url":null,"abstract":"Future Practical Management of Information Ethics Problems articles will focus upon intellectual property issues. This is an area where the boundary between the legal and ethical domains is both indistinct and rapidly changing. I am inviting legal experts to comment upon areas that are particularly relevant to higher education. Susan Ferencz Stager, former Director of Planning and Policy for Information Technology at Indiana University and current third-year Law student, provides insight into the tension between property protection and innovation in the following article. Her closing sentence should be taken as fair warning of a major ethical-legal issue your appropriate use policy needs to address.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133116858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Cobol dinosaur”: does it face extinction?","authors":"M. Krishnamurthi","doi":"10.1145/300619.300620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/300619.300620","url":null,"abstract":"COBOL (common business oriented language) is a traditional third generation language that was introduced in 1959 and has been in use from then until now. Its longevity seems awesome to many.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"52 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120911775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information literacy: the Web is not an encyclopedia","authors":"L. Larsen","doi":"10.1145/274883.274887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/274883.274887","url":null,"abstract":"The phone rings and it's Dr. Withit who wants an Internet class for her students on how to find research material on the Web for their mid-term papers.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"186 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125969382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-centralizing: the pendulum wobbles back","authors":"D. M. Wee","doi":"10.1145/274883.274885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/274883.274885","url":null,"abstract":"In the 80's, many schools and corporations had \"Information Center\" departments who were charged with promoting and supporting \"end-user computing.\" We I.C. folks sponsored PC user groups and led discussions on whether people should upgrade right away to WordPerfect 4.2 or wait. We encouraged the spreadsheet guru in Finance to teach short-courses on 1 2--3. We installed a network file server for the Sociology Department, but asked the department to provide someone to do the backups and funnel questions, so we could teach one person how to use the network, who would then teach the rest. As the number of PCs exploded, we helped our institutions cope in the only cost-effective way available: we leveraged the available computer expertise by focusing training, support, and resources on key departmental computing coordinators. [1]","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132444582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The practical management of information ethics problems: test your appropriate use policy","authors":"John W. T. Smith","doi":"10.1145/270534.270543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/270534.270543","url":null,"abstract":"At the 1994 Computing Services Management Symposium Susan Stager (Ferencz) and I presented a workshop on The Practical Management of Computer Ethics Problems. My written materials for that workshop were presented in a series of articles in recent SIGUCCS Newsletters. This column offers a continuing exploration of the ideas presented in those articles.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114481104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education technology standards","authors":"R. Rada, James R. Schoening","doi":"10.1145/270534.270547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/270534.270547","url":null,"abstract":"Standards are relevant to every ACM SIG. The new JavaScript standardization effort from the European Computer Manufacturers Association would be particularly relevant to SIG Software Engineering. Managing Multimedia Information Structures from the European Workshop for Open Systems would be particularly relevant to SIG Multimedia. The new ISO 14000 standards for environmental quality management systems might concern SIG Management Information Systems. One of the latest standardization efforts is for educational technology, and to our knowledge only one formal Standards Development Organization, namely the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), is directly addressing educational technology standards.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126344474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drowning in our success: institution-wide electronic mail messages","authors":"J. Ashworth","doi":"10.1145/270534.270537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/270534.270537","url":null,"abstract":"College and university computing support providers are discovering these days what Walt Kelly's Pogo character said many years ago: \"We have met the enemy and he is US.\" We who work in support of computing activities in higher education may have been overly successful in helping to integrate the use of computer technology into all facets of academic life as we must now work with the situations that are happening as a result of our communities embracing this technology.","PeriodicalId":168438,"journal":{"name":"ACM Siguccs Newsletter","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125053359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}