Hello #NACADAR8!! It was great connecting with you fine folks via Skype. Here is a copy of the presentation I posted on SlideShare &  a few links that I mentioned during the session on wikis you might find of interested when you return to your home institution:

Wiki Links & Resources from the Presentation:

Wikis in Plain English, by Common Craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Laura’s NACADA Tech Seminar Wiki: http://techknowtools.pbworks.com/

ACE Project Planning Wiki: http://aaccadvising2.pbworks.com/

Advisor Training in the Digital Age by Paul Cox (@peacox): http://sites.google.com/site/advisortraininginthedigitalage/home/nacada-presentation

Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com/

PbWorks: http://pbworks.com/

Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com/

Media Wiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Wikiversity: http://wikiversity.org/

Educause: http://www.educause.edu/

The Horizon Report: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5810.pdf

Have a great time this morning at the #NACADATech Seminar, part deux, and the rest of the NACADA Region 8 conference! Stay connected: http://card.ly/laurapasquini Cheers!

More than 30 NACADA National Conference attendees participated in a conference back channel by using the #nacada09 hashtag on Twitter. Twitter names are listed in order of tweet frequency:

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The following Twitter hashtag has been “created” to enable non-attendees the opportunity to virtually follow the action at the NACADA Annual Conference in San Antonio: #nacada09.

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Student Affairs Online has published an article that I wrote on Student Affairs and Twitter. The focus of the article is framed around student affairs practitioners who are new to Twitter and microblogging. Content repurposing via RSS and professional networking are the primary topics in the piece:

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet:
Student Affairs is on Twitter

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Well, it has been over a month (and a Spring Break for most of us) since we were together at the NACADA Technology Seminar in Clearwater Beach, FL. Time sure does fly when you need to catch up on campus, engage in student registration, and return to the daily office grind.

Thanks for being part of the NACADA Tech Seminar and online community both during and AFTER the event. It’s been great collaborating and sharing with many of you online since our departure from Florida on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, wikis & more!

The NACADA Tech Faculty would LOVE to learn & share with the larger group your ideas, discussions, plans & projects that you have been involved with at your home institution. Share your updates & news!

The NACADA Tech News (photo by Zarko Drincic)

Be sure to leave a comment after this post about:

• What has happened since you left the NACADA Technology Seminar?
• How have you connected with others on campus, i.e. colleagues, supervisors, IT friends, etc?
• What development and plans have you initiated post-seminar?
• Other thoughts, news & updates for NACADA?

Be sure to post this brief update & share any projects (URLs, etc) that you have been working on in the comments section. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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I posed a question on of our wikis for the seminar…”What would make your academic advising work more manageable?” Several folks joined the wiki and contributed to that conversation prior to arriving at the seminar. Others worked in small groups to lay out a “manifesto” of unique academic advising needs for tech solutions. The resulting list indicates that there we need comprehensive solutions for academic advising. And despite some vendor acclaimations, there does not seem to be a product to meet those needs. Can web 2.0 type applications, interfaces with information systems, communication tools, records management, data access, and assessment tools be found all together? If not, can they be integrated so that they “appear” to be all together?

Yep, I am on a rampage…you can call it a quest. I am seeking an Advising Management System. I request that you check out the list that advisors have constructed before commenting on this post to tell me that your company has such a solution. I hope there are advisors out there who have discovered how to solve this need, and I hope you will also comment. But first check out the the wiki and the list.

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Thanks for sharing & engaging last week at the NACADA Tech Seminar.  I thought the seminar provided everyone with an opportunity to connect and discuss how technology will impact the advising profession both now, and in the future.

Here is a link to my wiki that contains resources, online references, & presentations from last week:

http://techknowtools.pbwiki.com/

If you have further questions or you would like to follow up on any of these materials, you can best reach me by e-mail (pasquini.laura@gmail.com) or you can fine me on either Facebook or LinkedIn.

Thanks again & be sure to stay in touch,

Laura

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via CommonCraft

Related videos:

• Video: Twitter in Plain English
• Video: Wikis in Plain English
• Video: Blogs in Plain English
• Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

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Here’s a great post on Twitter, Twitter Search, Tweet Replies and TweetDeck.com.

Also, you can use twitterfeed to feed your blog posts (via RSS) to Twitter

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If you are just beginning to learn about the possibilities of Web 2.0 I highly recommend a blog that outlines work which helped expand my vision.

Getting Started with Web 2.0

The work of Mike Wesch at Kansas State has informed the higher education community over the last few years and helped us to think about the prospect of change in a digital age. But Wesch and his students have also permeated the web with their original work.