Reminder: Webnet Meeting Today

Portals

Mark your calendars for noon, November 18.

NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously announced topic of
the Blu Portal will not be presented. A general discussion of Portals will
follow Mr. Shamma's presentation.

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

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.

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

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