DCL Newsletter Issue 15

8/14/2019 DCL Newsletter Issue 15

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DCL Birthdays

September

Scott C 13

Michelle 16

Erin 18

Darleene 25

Pat W 30

Aug. 31, 2009 I s s u e

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UNCG Division of

Continual Learning

Kitchen Clean-up

Crews Sept/Oct 1st Floor Bobbie

Jane-Marie

Robin

Sept 2nd Floor Michelle

Nora

Scott B

Dont waste paper.

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Salesforce Hands-On Sessions by TrinaJ in me every 3rd Tuesday from 2:303pm in the upstairs c nference r m f rhands- n use f Salesf rce. As we cultivate DCLs culture f evidence, thesesessi ns will all w f r practical experience in data c llecti n, data integrity andrep rting. C me share y ur ideas f r impr ved use f the t l.

Date Topic

September 15 Getting Started

October 20 Adding InformationFinding Information

November 17 Reporting Tools

December 15 Design your Dashboards

Congratulations!

Emily Phillips is our new

SECC solicitor for 2009.

The AASTC: Tweetering on the Edge by B b Marketing pe ple, as we all kn w, are an unstable idi syncratic l t wh

ccasi nally have a g d ideaeven if the idea d esnt seem s t the pe ple whw uld have t implement it. The idea was t c mmunicate the camp experiencet utsiders, i.e. parents, using the t ls f s cial netw rking: Twitter, Bl gging,Faceb k, Y uTube and Flickr. Pitched at camp as spy n y ur kids, parentsreceived a yer at check-in telling them where they could tune into the variouss cial media we were creating.

All f us were regulars n Faceb k but pri rt this time, nly Kisha had a Twitter acc unt.

Adding Twitter t ur arsenal was a little in-timidating at rst: trying to come up with clever(and acceptable) things t say that might appealt ur intended audience and kn wing that whatwe tweeted w uld als sh w up n the campsvery public h me page (thanks, David).

During ur staff rientati n I switched my little Nik n C lpix fr m picture tm vie m de and became the s cial media vide grapher f r the rest f the summer.Matt continued to snap stills and lled up Flickr albums all summer long. Kishaused her Twitter expertise t celebrate camp happenings and retweet Matts andmy p sts f new ph t s and vide s. She was als the nly ne wh c uld instantly

upl ad pictures directly fr m her mnipresent BlackBerry t Twitpics.We really didnt kn w if any ne w uld l k r even care but it didnt take l ng

to nd out. Some of my awful rst-effort videos were getting hundreds of views on Y uTube. Similar resp nses were being rec rded f r Matts and Kishas pictures.But what was m st amazing was that pe ple were talking back t us. Pe ple wh

bvi usly had never been n Twitter bef re were signing up f r acc unts just ssee Tweetering, page 3


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UNCG Cube City Courier August 31, 2009 Page 2

S nack-n-Learn #1 A re you aware of all the bene tsavailable t y u as an UNCGempl yee? C me and j in Cati f ra Snack-n-Learn ab ut the manybene ts and services available toUniversity empl yees.

Wednesday, September 2 , 2:30pm

S nack-n-Learn #2J in Pat L f r an verview f whatwe d t market iSch l t sch ls,students, and parents and h w tgive t p quality cust mer service sthey c me back f r m re!

Thursday, September 10 , 2:30pm

snacks provided

Technology Corner iPhone Alley

ITS oFFICIAL: The sec ndfloor east of ces (Scott B toBill H) is n w iPh ne Alley. The lasth ld ut, Kathleen, g t an iPh nef r her recent birthday and n wevery ne n that side f the buildingis iPh ne enabled. Kathleen advisesher fell w empl yees n t t ask herany dif cult iPhone questions untilshes had an pp rtunity t practice.

Are y u c l en ugh t be an iPh nepers n? iPh ne users are enc uragedt pr vide testim nials in this spaceunder the title: Why I Love myiPhone . Blackberry wners mayhave s mething t say ab ut theirtechn l gy as well.

Top Twitters by B b Wh Twitters r Tweets in DCL? A recent c m-pletely unscienti c survey of of ce Twitterspr duced s me interesting numbers. Sc tt B is

the undisputed Twitter King with sec nd placeg ing t different pe ple depending n what

y ure c mparing. H w d the rest f the DCLTwitterers stack up? Here are the t p 25 Tweetersby f ll wers and by Tweets.

Name Username Followers Tweets

Sc tt B JrM zart 2383 16388Ryan R. ryanr bbins 545 1032

Adam Adam10 403 3924

David R. davich 314 9864Bill H mls_pr f 236 6B b allarts1 179 763Kisha allarts_Kisha 142 451Leerie leeriejinx 131 274Matt F allarts_matt 130 262C lin c linUNCG 114 1027Emily P. PurpleCricket 102 1021Erin ehest 93 1138Greg R. gdr bbin 88 198Matt McF mtmcfarl 83 1009Michelle s ler_ml 82 222Bryan H. thebriggins 52 208Trina tgabby 48 283

Alex axhu80 46 134Beth bb yett 42 136Nadia d33rheart 35 389J sette hippyj j 35 224Kerry 1fastred 33 98Pat L patricia2127 29 26Cati cati70 28 123

J hn M. jm tens n 28 37

Stricter Ethic RulesNew ethics rules dictate that State empl yees may n t accept gifts

f any value fr m interested parties, which includes vend rs aswell as l bbyists. Any ne wh wishes t d business with DCLanof ce supplier, marketer, printer, computer sales person, etc.isc nsidered an interested party. N t even a c ffee mug.


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Tweetering(continued from Page 1)

they c uld f ll w and reply t us (and m st f them still haventp sted a picture).

At Friday Festivals, parents regularly t ld us h w much theyenjoyed seeing the camp pix, ix and Tweets. I now have regularexchanges with s me f the parent Twitter f ll wers and a c uple f them are n w Faceb k friends t .

As dubi us as I nce was ab utthis experiment in the beginning,I enj yed the experience and l kf rward t d ing it again nextyearmaybe with s me betterequipment and using the less ns

learned this summer.If y u get sentimental ab ut

the summer just past, p p ver t ur Flickr and Y uTube pages trelive it all ver again.

Did you know?Did y u kn w that the s cial media and especially the Twitterventure was experimental? We knew it w uld w rk... but n tentirely sure h w t pr ve it. F r examplewe have n way f measuring metrics (site statistics) n Twitter.c m. But tinkeringar und with the API (Twitters c de t the public), we were able tcreate a cust m Twitter page that lives n ur UNCG servers withG gle analytics (t measure hits and ther fun stuff) f n t nly

ne Twitterer... but three: B b, Kisha, & Matt. Did y u kn w thatin a sh rt am unt f time the camp Twitter page becamethe #4 m st visited page n the AASTC Camp site?! Add nt p f that a wh pping 3+ minutes f average time n thatpage (which is A LoT)! It may be a fad... but t day we areriding it in style! =D


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Scribe to the Stars by Pat L When Michael Jacks n died, Dr. Maya Angel u, Reyn lds Pr fess r

f American Studies at Wake F rest University, wr te a p ementitled We Had Him. At the funeral service, Queen Latifahread it. When I rst heard it I thought it would be great written incalligraphy and presented t the Jacks n family.

Strangely en ugh, ab ut 3 days later I received a ph ne callrequesting t see samples f my w rk t d the calligraphy f r Dr.

Angel u wh wanted t present the framed p em t the Jacks nfamily. I was ne f 3 area calligraphers they c ntacted. Dr.

Angel us niece came t interview me and I was ch sen! The p emwas quite long and Dr. Angelou was very speci c about how shewanted it d ne.

When her niece came t

pick it up, she inf rmedme that Dr. Angel u hadchanged her mind and didn t want by signaturewith the date but shewanted t write her name and date herself. S I had t re-d the

entire sec nd page. I decided t d an additi nal c py in shades f blue which many pe ple prefer when the subject is deceased. I gaveb th c pies t the niece f r Dr. Angel u t decide. The niece l vedthe ne in blues since it was artier l king but Dr. Angel u abs -

lutely wanted the traditi nal l k. I t ld the niece she c uld keepthe ne in blues since she l ved it s much.

In appreciati n, Dr. Angel u sent a signed c py f her b kLetters t My Daughter f r me and a thank-y u n te. She alssent pers nally signed childrens b ks f r my twin grand girls.

S that is the st ry. The piece was framed and sent t theJacks n family fr m Dr. Angel u. S I am thrilled t have been asmall part f hist ry!

T read the full text f the p em, g t http://mayaangelou.com/news/3 /

excerpt from Pats work

Chess Tournament by Matt F Adam and I are organizing an of cechess t urnament. Whether y ure anew player r y u justdefeated B bby Fischerlast year in the W rldChess Cup, all levels

f players are welc me t play.Games will be played during the

lunch h ur and will be timed. Therewill be prizes f r several pe ple play-ing (n t just the verall winner) . Wellassign games by a rand m drawingwhen we have en ugh players t begin.

I am p sting a sign up sheet n theoutside of my cube on the 2nd oor.If y u are interested, the last day tsign up f r this r und is Wednesday.

Well have m re c ncrete rules andexplanations as we gure them out.

What is the UNCG Staff Senate?The purp se f UNCG Staff Senate is t pr vide f r awareness f and inv lvement in the University c mmunity by SPA and EPA n n-faculty empl yees; t enc urage pr fessi nal and pers naldevel pment f the staff; t impr ve c mmunicati n within andbetween all staff and faculty within the University; and t participatein University g vernance thr ugh representatives app inted by theChancell r as rec mmended by the Staff Senate Executive C mmitteet serve n appr priate c mmittees f the University.

Are You Ready to MakeSomeone a Star?UNCG Staff Senate enc urages allstaff, campus-wide, t rec gnizeempl yees wh m they bservebeing kind, th ughtful, helpful rc nsiderate.

Its simple...T make s me ne aStaff Star, please tell us wh thesecaring empl yees are, where theyw rk and what they did that wasspecial at: www.uncg.edu/staff.groups/senate/stars /

The Staff Star receives:

A certi cate signed by the Chancellor A letter f appreciati n Inf rmati n p sted n ur website
http://mayaangelou.com/news/3/http://mayaangelou.com/news/3/http://mayaangelou.com/news/3/http://www.uncg.edu/staff.groups/senate/stars/http://www.uncg.edu/staff.groups/senate/stars/http://www.uncg.edu/staff.groups/senate/stars/http://www.uncg.edu/staff.groups/senate/stars/http://www.uncg.edu/staff.groups/senate/stars/http://mayaangelou.com/news/3/http://mayaangelou.com/news/3/


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Movie trivia The Godfather (the riginal):

Who wrote the novel? Mari PuzWho directed the lm? Francis F rd C pp laWhere does Luca Brassi sleep? With the shesWhat was Sonny Corleones real name? SantinWho played the dir ty cop that Al Pacinos character Michael killed? Sterling Hayden

Some Qs & As from July Final FridayOrigin of common phrases (2 pts f r the meaning, 8 pts f r rigin)

Pull out all the stops

Meaning: Make every p ssible eff rt.Origin: The derivati n f this phrase is fr m the fact thatpipe organs have stops which control the air ow andthat pulling them ut increases the v lume.

As mad as a hatter

Meaning: C mpletely mad.Origin: Mercury used t beused in the making f hats.This was kn wn t haveaffected the nerv us systems

f hatters, causing them ttremble and appear insane.Neur t xic l gist n w kn wthat mercury exp sure cancause aggressiveness, m dswings, and anti-s cialbehavi r. Mercury p is ningis still kn wn t day as Mad

Hatters disease.Overlapping names

Frankenstein n the P seid nMary Shelley Winters

A Trait r us G vern rBenedict Arnold Schwarzennegger

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