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  sarahintampa

  1 year ago

  Crazy how behind so much of the world still is - we forget when when we constantly live in our bubble. We're so progressive here, debating the differences between FriendFeed and Twitter and the like. Then you exit the bubble and people are like "Twit-a-whaaaa?"
  
  Also: side note - you changed your theme! Sorry I didn't notice before, you know I live in RSS :) Love your social stuff at the top.
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  Franklin

  1 year ago

  Yeah the new theme is really cool and really clean. Clean design is the best. I like the social stuff also. The round icons look very 2008.
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  Tommy

  1 year ago

  FERPA. That is all.
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  StevenHodson

  1 year ago

  doesn't it suck when the real world use of technology up and slaps you one :)
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  sanjaysub

  1 year ago

  You should be in India! They won't even answer telephone calls in some of the universities here!
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  chrispalle

  1 year ago

  Fax machine? I think I heard about those... they plug into... what's that called again? Oh, yeah! A phone line. ;-)
  
  Yeah, the new design is nice. Caught that the other day. Too bad about MyBlogLog forcing us to use that thing.... i need visual control over my widgets. Can't deal with it. </CSSSnobbery>
  
  
  Update: Okay, sorry. Which is the new design? The MyBlogLog widget looks better with the white background.
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  Andy DeSoto

  1 year ago

  Hee! Digging up your complaint might be a little bit of a stretch, but I understand your frustration. Especially for someone so web-savvy. Good luck!
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  Donnie Berkholz

  1 year ago

  I agree, popular people deserve better service than everyone else.
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  smbeebe

  1 year ago

  Excellent post Cordiva... I work in Education arena and all of these examples you give are such an great opportunity for Schools to become accessible and responsive to their client base, but unfortunately they are slow to adopt the very technology which would easily remove these frustrating barriers and put them in touch with their students and prospects.
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  Erik

  1 year ago

  I work in higher ed web dev and I'll certainly agree that colleges are extremely slow on the uptake of new technology. There needs to be some sort of mechanism that allows administration to review business processes every year (enhanced with student satisfaction surveys) and see if any new technologies allow for more efficient returns.
  
  However, in this particular case with transcripts, there are a lot of legal issues involved (especially FERPA as someone else mentioned). In many cases a written signature is still required by law, and what constitutes an "online signature" is still murky.
  
  The other issue is that even if the college staff used IM or twitter to communicate, they would likely become overburdened with requests very quickly and response times would still lag. Plus, most college staff wear 5 different hats anyway and do things beyond their job description because of a lack of sufficient people/budgets, which is why most are not receptive to changing thing which could potentially increase their workload even more.
  
  Hopefully we'll get there.....at some point.
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  harry

  5 months ago

  You probably put too much hope in your university social networking capabilities... In my university years we couldn't have done this due the technical limitations but even so the social part of the institution wasn't too bad, they were first of all very well organized and I liked that from the start. Now over the years I am still prowd I graduated the University of Phoenix.
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  Corvida

  5 months ago

  That's who I'm also doing school with. I can't say I share the same sentiments. Not when it comes to the group projects anyway.
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