Discovery…have you met your IT professional?

I encouraged advisors at Advising 2.0 Seminar to meet and engage their IT professionals in the discussion of Web 2.0 tools in academic advising. Yesterday I stopped by the Academic Affairs Technology office on my campus to return the projector I borrowed for my trip to Clearwater. My IT (just happens to be a) guy asked about the seminar. He had been helping me think through some issues having to do with using Twitter and a blog on my academic advising website over the last few months, so we talked often in that time about the seminar and about our goals. He was so delighted to hear that many of you had decided that you would seek out IT professionals on your campus. So often collaboration does not take place because parties (advisors and IT professionals) do not realize that they have similar interests.

If you have not reached out to engage IT professionals on your campus in your Advising 2.0 projects I encourage you to do so early in the process of implementing any new Advising 2.0 initiative. You will be amazed at the benefits!

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