Nov. 18 Webnet Meeting: Portals

Portals

Mark your calendars for noon, November 18

Audience:
No technical expertise required. Anyone working on the Berkeley campus is
invited.

Time and Location:
Tuesday, November 18, 12 noon - 1:00pm, in 3110 Etcheverry Hall.

Abstract:
Portals - MyHaas and Blu

MyHaas - MyHaas is a community portal for the Haas School of Business. It
began with a project request from the MBA students to provide for an
effective student based online presence whose features surpassed the
current tools in use (i.e., majordomo mailing lists and static Web
sites). MyHaas provided them with content management tools like file, page
and link management, collaboration features like discussion forums and
polls. Additionally, students could personalize their MyHaas page, like My
Yahoo, by subscribing to news, weather, email and stock watch
channels. The tools that it offered users were quite powerful and there
was definitely a learning curve that they had to overcome. Users who were
once webmasters were faced with the task of being "channel"
producers. "Push" methods of information distribution changed to "pull"
based. MyHaas is now in its third year and the adoption rate is still growing.

Blu - The presentation on the Blu Portal will briefly cover the business
case for Blu, needs and benefits, along with the genesis of the project.
The method for the build and how the set of launch services was chosen will
also be discussed. There will also be time spent on the aspect of the
single signon, Calnet, and what the status is of the next steps for Blu.

Presenters:
MyHaas Portal
Mohammed Shamma, Web Systems Administrator
Haas Computing Services

Blu Portal
Tessa Michaels, Chief Technology Officer
Business and Administrative Services

_______________________________

Debra Goldentyer
Web Editor
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
510-643-3847 / goldenty@haas.berkeley.edu
http://haas.berkeley.edu/

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