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      <title>Marketing the Intangible </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Kimball Group has a newsletter and also runs a number of courses on data warehouse design and maintenance. The following Design Tip #91 is another good one, on marketing somthing that is somewhat intangible to most people, your data warehouse.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is a quick read, so have a look and then think of the marketing ideas in relation to your Advancement/Development services organization. We also provide a number of "intangible" services, and marketing is not one of our stronger skill sets.&lt;br /&gt;
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The design tip, and what we need to do to sell our virtues to our peers, have a lot of parallels.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Design Tip #91&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Marketing the DW/BI System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Marketing is often dismissed by technical folks. When someone says "oh, you must be from marketing," it's rarely meant as a complement. This is because we don't really understand what marketing is and why it's important. In this design tip, we'll review classic marketing concepts and explore how we can apply them to the DW/BI system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;It might be more palatable to think of marketing as education. Marketers educate consumers about product features and benefits, while generating awareness of a need for those features and benefits. Marketing gets a bad name when it's used to convince consumers of a need that isn't real, or sell a product that doesn't deliver its claimed features and benefits. But that is a different article. Really great marketing, when effectively focused on the value delivered, is hugely important.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;                                                                        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Before you start creating your marketing program, you should have a clear understanding of your key messages: what are the mission, vision, and value of your DW/BI system? Marketing 101 has focused on the four Ps, Product, Price, Placement, and Promotion, for at least the last 30 years or so.* We’ll look at each of these factors in the context of the DW/BI system and direct you to additional information where it is available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Product&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;As far as the business community is concerned, the DW/BI products are the information needed for decision making and the BI applications and portal through which the information is delivered. Our products must excel in the following five areas:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in" type="disc"&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Value – meet the business needs identified in the business requirements process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Functionality – product must work well&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Quality – data and calculations have to be right    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Interface – be as easy as possible to use and look good&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Performance – work in a reasonable timeframe as defined by the users&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Price&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Most users don't pay for the DW/BI system directly. The price they pay is the effort it takes to get the information from the DW/BI system compared to other alternatives. There is an upfront cost of learning how to use the BI tool or the BI applications, and an ongoing cost of finding the right report or building the right query for a particular information need. You must lower the price as much as possible by first creating excellent products that are as easy to use as possible. Then offer a full set of training, support and documentation, including directly accessible business metadata, on an ongoing basis. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Placement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;In consumer goods, placement is obvious: the product has to be on the store shelf or the customer can't buy it. For us, placement means our customers are able to find the information they need when they need it. In other words, you must build a navigation structure for the BI applications that makes sense to the business folks. Additionally, tools like search, report metadata descriptions and categories, and personalization capabilities can be extremely helpful. For additional information, see Design Tip #58: BI Portal and my February 2006 Intelligent Enterprise article, “Standard Reports: Basics for Business Users” at &lt;a href="http://www.kimballgroup.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff" size="2"&gt;www.kimballgroup.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Promotion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Every customer contact you have is a marketing opportunity. TV ads are not an option, not counting YouTube, but you do have several promotion channels:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in" type="disc"&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;BI applications – These are what people use the most. Names are important: having a good acronym for the DW/BI system can leave a good impression. Every report and application should have a footer indicating that it came from the DW/BI system and a logo in one of the upper corners. Ultimately, if you create a good product, the name and logo will become marks of quality – your brand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;BI portal – This is the main entry point for the DW/BI system. It has to meet the same requirements as the BI applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Regular communications – Know who your stakeholders are and which communications vehicle works best for each. Your ongoing communications plan will include status reports, executive briefings, and user newsletters. Consider webcasts on specific topics if that's an option in your organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Meetings, events, and training – Any public meeting where you can get a few minutes on the agenda is a good thing. Briefly mention a recent successful business use, remind people of the nature and purpose of the DW/BI system, and tell them about any upcoming plans or events. Host your own events, like User Forum meetings, every six to nine months or so. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;                                                     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Ongoing marketing is a key element of every successful DW/BI system. The more you keep people informed about the value you provide them, they more they will support your efforts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;* A fifth P, People, is sometimes included. In recent years, there’s been a push to replace the Marketing 4 Ps with 4 Cs: Customer solution, Customer cost, Convenience and Communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;Warren Thornthwaite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 7.15pt 0pt 0in"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt"&gt;© &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt"&gt;Copyright&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;Kimball Group, 2007. All rights reserved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;Kimball Group, 13130 Highway 9, Boulder Creek, CA  95006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <title>Changing Web Culture with Conventional Employment Techniques </title>
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&lt;div&gt;Changing culture is often difficult but there are some basic strategies centering around job descriptions/performance and accountability that can help change an organization.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Every employee should have a line or two in their job descriptions on their web responsibilities. Even clerical staff can be responsible for deploying content within the CMS, Intranet, etc. We should be mentioning this at the onset of the hiring process.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The other piece is accountability. If someone is reponsible for a web site, are they evaluated on traffic? Are they required to provide reports that are included with the rest of the monthly reporting cycle?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;How do we provide the right professional development to make an organization more "web centric" overall, rather than just having communications or technology staff understand the concepts? Guest speakers, webinars, conferences?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We've only just started seeing the uptick in job postings and descriptions that reflect how the communications world is changing. Some examples: Online Engagement Manager, Director of Interactive Communications. Positions specifically related to e-communications help ensure that the budget is applied directly to these activities, rather than having "soft" budget amounts related to the "other duties as assigned" line in the job description.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Here's a good one that is related to Facebook:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Data Analyst&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Facebook is seeking a Data Analyst with strong communication skills and a mild obsession with extracting useful information from data. The ideal candidate will read Matthew Hurst, the Juice Analytics blog, paidContent.org, information aesthetics, and Many-2-Many; that is, they will be interested in the business and product of an online social network while having a passion for data analysis and visualization. The position is full-time and based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA. This position will report to the Senior Manager of Data Insight.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Responsibilities:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;    * Work closely with business users and product managers to determine how the data we collect could help solve their problems&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Apply your expertise in statistical inference, data mining, and the presentation of data to help inform and support our business and product decisions&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Work with the data infrastructure team to translate the business requirements into technical specifications&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Possess a thorough understanding of our data collection methods&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Develop reports and monitor the validity of the data being reported&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Requirements:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;    * Data junkie&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * The ability to communicate the results of your analyses in a clear and effective manner&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Crazy Excel skills or experience with data reporting and analysis tools such as Spotfire, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, et al&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Experience with R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, or a similar tool for data analysis&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Understanding of the methodologies of the major internet audience measurement firms: comScore Media Metrix, Nielsen//NetRatings, Hitwise, Quantcast, Alexa, Compete&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Basic knowledge of relational databases and SQL&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;    * Strong willingness to contribute to a small team&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Web 2.0 as a Catalyst for Corporate Change</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Check out the following blog on Web 2.0 (Enterprise 2.0)&lt;a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=105&amp;tag=nl.e622"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=105&amp;tag=nl.e622&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Can we really expect to use web 2.0 to change the way our advancement and development cultures communicate?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#1f497d" size="2"&gt;Although most of these tools are readily available, they &lt;/font&gt;still don’t integrate well into out “conventional” applications.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;For example, what about the “Daily Gift Blog” instead of the Daily Gift Log (a report)? The blog could allow registered users in Development to post comments on gifts, and emphasize some of the teamwork idea approach. RSS feeds would allow self subscription and empowerment.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Wikis could be good for performance reviews with comments back and forth by supervisors/employees. If we made them public to the organization and allow anonymous comments, it could all get pretty interesting and rather radical in a big hurry. We would probably be more likely to use them to develop policies and procedures.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Culture change is critical to 2.0 integration, and is the most difficult component.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Key is to remove all of the barriers. You need 1 login, integrated front and back end, and ability to integrate any of the 2.0 components into any page.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Interestingly enough, at the Senior Advancement Services Professionals conference, nobody seemed to be considering this. In one session with about 40 people, only 2 had a blog, only 1 had posted to a Wiki, and very few had profiles on any of the social networking sites etc. etc.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The current generation of “techies in charge” do not appear to be leading the charge these critical areas for the future.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The next generation may become frustrated with conventional infrastructures and architectures, and this could lead to the same kind of schism in the workplace that occurred when the balance of male/female employees shifted in the 70’s.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We need to start to be more creative and begin to deploy 2.0 technologies within our organizations.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Broken Telephone</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;School is over for the year, and summer classes begin in May. Exams are coming to a conclusion and essays and portfolios are being marked and returned to students.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;Actually, “returned” isn’t the right word for how I received my photography portfolio. In reality, I embarked on a quest that was plagued with many dead ends and confused people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;The first e-mail came from my TA who said that the portfolios had been marked and were:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;1.      in white envelopes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;2.      in alphabetical order&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;3.      in boxes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;Hmmm. The campus is pretty big. Where could these “boxes” be? Well, there were three floors in the Centre for Fine Arts. It had to be on one of those floors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;On the day I was supposed to drive to campus, I received an e-mail from my professor saying that the portfolios were in the first floor photography room and we would need to call ahead to make sure someone was there. I couldn’t find a number.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;When I got to campus I went to the Fine Arts building and knocked on the door where my portfolios should have been sitting behind. No Answer. I knocked again and waited and realized that even if I did have a phone number, nobody would be there to pick it up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;I walked across campus to check my final Psychology mark, got a coffee and walked back to the Fine Arts building. I was starting to feel flustered. I knocked on the door loudly. No answer. I knocked loudly once again, an exasperated, reverberating knock. As I was about to leave in defeat, the door opened. A girl stood in the doorway and I smiled, explaining that I needed to pick up a portfolio. She looked perplexed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;“There aren’t any portfolios here. They should be upstairs.” She pointed to the piece of paper on the door that said portfolios could be found upstairs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;I pointed to the bottom of the sheet. “It says portfolios for sections three, four, and five are upstairs. I’m section one. My professor told me that it was here.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;“Ok.” She let me in. I began to walk down a hallway and was met with an older man who reeked of darkroom chemicals. He looked at me like I was crazy as the girl explained to him why I was there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;“There aren’t any portfolios here,” he said, “They’ll be upstairs if anywhere.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;I left the photography lab as the two looked after me like I was out of my mind for thinking that the portfolios could ever be there and headed up stairs. Navigating down the hallways of visual arts offices brought me to my TA’s door. The lights were off and the office was empty, but outside the door were the boxes and the white envelopes and the portfolios in alphabetical order.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;I grabbed mine and walked out of the Centre for Fine Arts, wondering how picking up a portfolio had become so complicated. Was I wrong in thinking that my professor told us to go to the photography lab?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;No. I read the e-mail again when I got home and found out that I had followed the directions my professor e-mailed the entire class. As I eyed the white envelope on my desk I thought, ‘How much more simple it would be if we all had Facebook!’ I imagined being able to communicate with my professor and TA in an instantaneous format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;Message boards and wall postings are available in a context (you can see postings before and after you own). E-mails fail to accomplish this— giving a student like me only a pinhole view of the entire picture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;Somehow the lines of communication need to be tightened between professors and their teaching assistants and students. A closely linked network must be formed rather than a scant series of dead-end lines. There are many students who are tired of being on the receiving end of a message that was lost in translation and not corrected in time.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Office Trials and Tribulations</title>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;I’d like to speak a little bit on the experience of installing and using Office 2007.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If you haven't already installed, or tried to deploy to your users, you really want to be careful. While the upgrade process itself is fairly transparent, as with most installations of Office, your users will experience a substantial degree of frustration as they attempt to use the new products.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;All those old familiar menu commands that you access with the keyboard, all those keystrokes you've memorized for the last 10 years are all slightly changed. Not have to make them impossible to figure out but just enough to make you have to think about the time.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;While the ribbon bar provides a more compelling visual experience than the previous menu systems, many familiar items are initially hard to locate and while you struggle to find them your productivity is seriously impeded. I'm currently working on an RFP, a very document and spreadsheet intensive activity and as an early adopter and learning the hard way on this one.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;It's important with this roll out, to really have good training and help desk support to move users through the process.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;There seems to be less to functionality and more just a re-skinning of the product. It's interesting that some of the features such as Smart Art and others are still different between the different applications. For example, Smart Art in PowerPoint is different than Smart Art in Word. I don't quite understand this from both an integration standpoint and a profitability standpoint. Even with all the money Microsoft makes, and the fact that office is its cash cow, you'd think they'd want to utilize the same code even more than they already do.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;It's astounding that after all this time, common tasks like working with headers and footers in Word and Excel still require different approaches. Visio 2007 and Outlook 2007 don't have the same ribbon toolbar. In fact, Visio 2007 doesn't have the ribbon toolbar. Not quite as consistent as you'd like to see.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;There are some great new features: Excel can now handle many more rows than it did previously. There's also a button you can click on that eliminates duplicate rows.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;I bring up the term creeping featurism's. I first learned this in a programming class years ago and it referred to the idea that software development is really part art and science, and never totally a set of well defined user requirements. Remember “Clippy”, Smart tags and other featurisms. Programs now have so many features that sometimes when I get a new version, I think I've found a new feature but it's only because I'm exploring, and quite possibly think it's new because I never used it before.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;I don't use most features in most programs most of the time, and when I try to do something more advanced, I keep feeling that one could spend their whole life on one software package, and still not know how to use everything. I wonder how these complications that we run into while trying to do simple tasks add to our constant information overload.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;While I'm not suggesting that we move back to the days of DOS, because I do enjoy the richer user experience, with all of its colors, sounds, ease of accessing information and everything else that we experience on a day to day basis, I think software developers need to re-focus on simplifying rather than complicating.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This also speaks to our own roles within our own shops. Our customer service approach should be to simplify our interactions with users and find solutions that truly make them more productive. Our stock in trade is complications, the buck stops here, rules and regulations and everything else that makes it tough for our customers. How are we conveying all of this to them, and how are they perceiving us in the long run?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Big Brother Education</title>
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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;I like the thought of my well-rounded liberal arts education. I take courses for my major, but am not specializing  my degree to the point where there isn't room for me to take a History course, a Humanities course, or a Philosophy course if I choose to do so. There is plenty of time for specialization when pursuing a master’s degree or doctorate. During the four years that it will take me to complete an Undergraduate degree, I want to discover what I love— what I hate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;When discussing the level of specialty required in an engineering program that a friend of mine is in, the question of a well-rounded education came up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;“Most engineering students are perfectly happy being in engineering courses only. They go to one of our general education classes that deals with philosophy and don’t know how to respond. They don’t understand the purpose of asking questions. They rebel against any thought outside of traditional scientific thinking.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;Is the structure of certain degree programs implemented at some colleges and universities too rigid? Are we specializing in our educational paths a little too much?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;An article that mentioned the changing focus of students recently appeared in the New York Times. It stated that in the past, students went to college or university to find out for themselves what they believed in and what they liked doing. Today the focus has become one of pursing marketable job skills and thus, shirking the concept of personal growth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;As a society, we don’t want educate people to be machines, mindlessly thinking about their jobs, we want to educate people to be people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;Bill Beattie said, “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;While general education requirements often fulfill this, having to take too many general classes is not good either. Most students are smart enough that they don’t need to take Introduction to Social Science and would do much better off in a class like International Development Studies. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;There is a fine balance… force is required to a certain extent. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;Let’s say a general education requirement in one university is to take a Social Science or Humanities course. If this is so, then it would be best if there was a diverse selection of courses to choose from under these disciplines. It allows for the experience of studying something that isn’t a student’s major.  It is necessary, because experiences— whether joyful or painful, dull or enlightening— will cause a person to grow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;My friend said, “I want to be able to squeeze a minor into my degree. I want the option of studying abroad, but if I have to spend all my time in courses for my major I can forget about growing as a person in other areas.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;The thinkers of the world are not born when they attend an institution that puts the blinders on its students, restricting the education process to one that trains us to be mindless job drones. We don’t need Big Brother, watching over our every move, dictating each step of our education; we need the chance to span out, to spin the square.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;A certain degree of specialization is necessary, but sometimes our focus to get ahead, get ahead, closes the doors on opportunities to enrich all aspects of our lives and push our education to real and diverse limits. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"&gt;How do we want to be challenged as students; as important people in the society of today and tomorrow? Mathematically, logically, analytically, spatially? E. All of the above and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Naturally Speaking</title>
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Pushing Technology - Speech Recognition&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So sometimes it's just small things that make a difference when you're pushing technology.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;After first trying it 11 years ago I recently picked up a copy of Dragonspeak Naturally Speaking software. The idea came from one of our development officers who is using the software to enter contact reports. I remember when I previously tried it and it was just a trade-off between typing and speaking because it took so long to make corrections that you didn’t save a lot of time.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;This is also a lesson in making sure that a first software release works as well as you say it does. It really takes a long time to change a bad user experience to the point where you actually trust the company again. We believe marketing language and are very disappointed when the product doesn't work exactly as advertised.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So what's the verdict?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;I've been using it for about two hours, sent a few e-mails, written a few paragraphs and it seems to work well. I haven't had to read a manual (the last thing a technically inclined person wants to do.) The software trained itself in just a few minutes and except for the occasional odd word seems to pick most words OK.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Caveat: after trying a number of microphones, the USB ones seem to work the best. I haven’t tried an analogue one through a mixer to see if this improves the amplification, but on most of the mikes I have, the signal to noise ratio was too high.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Give this software a try but make sure you get a discount just in case you can't think in the same order that you need to write. This is the toughest part of using the software. If you can, in fact if we all could think first before speaking, the world could be a better place. It’s worth a gamble.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <title>More Professor Pandemonium </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The class fell silent. There was enough curiosity in the air to drown all three hundred of us. Now, we were all wondering what she thought.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is a pity that I can’t quote her directly. I know I was blown away by her words—blown away and encouraged. She told us that while society saw us one way she knew that we were a generation of ideas, a generation inspired to change things and a generation that could make big changes and set a course for the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;She told us that now since she had researched her audience and knew us, she was going to give a lecture on the five paragraph essay. I looked over at the girl next to me. Our eyes connected and they said the same thing, “Are you kidding me?”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;The interim professor placed a sheet on the projector and smiled up at us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;This essay is about cats. Let me read it to you.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
She started at the introductory paragraph, reading the thesis. “Cats make excellent housepets; they are easy to care for, they are easy to train…” She continued to read the essay to us with an amused tone and upon reaching the second paragraph she added in her own nugget of humour, “Cats, like undergraduates, are easy to train. They do not make loud noises and do not meow very often, like undergraduates…”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We were howling with laughter. Did she know her audience? Yes, of course.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Week after week I came to lectures. For a scheduled lesson on language we watched a music video. “Watch how Eminem speaks to his audience. Listen to his words and watch his body language.” It was clear. If we wanted to write, we needed to learn the language of people. Scheduled lectures on grammar and syntax went out of the window. Sure, they are important for a coherent sentence, but our interim professor recognized that we knew about syntax. She didn’t want to waste our time.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The semester was coming to a close and we knew the old soul crushing lectures would return in January. It was a painful thought and I wrote a lamenting e-mail to the interim professor at the time, asking if I could apply for tutorial refugee status (the returning professor was my tutorial leader) and thanking her for the inspiring lectures (which included all of them).&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
She wrote back, and even though I knew class was going to change and most likely become very hard to stay awake for the two hour lecture, I was filled with hope.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
“And you know what? - honestly, I think next term is going to be fine. There is so much meaning moving moving moving now in that room - the floating signifiers abound and will be there, too, from January to March, and we'll just keep playing them like a jazz riff.”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;I think as students, we all have these types of classes in university. It’s too bad we have to endure a professor who lacks teaching skills or one who doesn’t want to teach and would rather be doing research.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
There is room for improvement, there always is, but it reassures me when I know that there are some innovative adults who want to reach the younger generations; those who have taken the time to get to know us and apply their knowledge to encouraging us in our sometimes seemingly tiresome and endless pursuit of a degree. If only each and every professor were as dedicated as that.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
It is great when you can thank a professor for their work and even greater when they turn around and thank you.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
“Thank YOU. I knew you were out there - and that's what pushed me forward, week after week, to spin the square.”&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <title>Professor Pandemonium and Staying Awake in Lectures </title>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt"&gt;I sit in a writing lecture now, wondering why I bothered to come. I look around at the other students. Most are staring at our professor with half-alive expressions or slumping in their seats. I know these looks. They say, “Please engage me and challenge me. Teach me something I didn’t learn in high school. I am paying to be here, please make it worth my money.”&lt;br /&gt;
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When I graduated high school last year I found myself at then end of one era in my life and the beginning of another. I was ready to move onto something new; something dynamic and exciting and more focused on my interests.&lt;br /&gt;
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Today the professor tells us that when she sees our blank faces, she takes that as a cue to repeat herself so we can understand the material. She repeats herself a lot. It isn’t because we don’t understand the concepts. We are asleep with our eyes open.&lt;br /&gt;
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I miss class once in awhile and ask the friends who I sit with, “What did I miss?” They reply, “Oh, nothing. The highlight of class was when she had to replace the batteries in her microphone. She said that class would have to be cancelled and all of these people were whispering, ‘Yes!’—including me, of course—and then we heard a loud, “NO!” from the back of the class, not even sarcastic. We all turned around to see the psycho.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Why are we so broken? Once, we had a taste of an engaging lecturer. What she had to say was relevant and carefully thought out. She had been filling in while our regular professor was away.&lt;br /&gt;
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I look down towards the front row where the de-throned interim professor is sitting with the rest of the teaching assistants and tutorial leaders. She leans back in her chair with her arms crossed. Her head tilts downward in a sigh of some sort. I wonder what she is thinking— how is she making this lecture on speech writing valuable in her mind?&lt;br /&gt;
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I know how to write. I know that in speeches I have to use devices that appeal to my audience’s ear and that I must know my audience in the first place. This is what I learned in high school. I am in University now because I was able to&lt;br /&gt;
understand and apply this knowledge then. I don’t want to learn it again.&lt;br /&gt;
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The interim professor knew her audience, and knew how to keep us engaged and challenge our high school-taught notions about every facet of writing. The first day she lectured, she told us that she had researched our generation—her audience. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What did she think about us? She said our generation was viewed a lazy, apathetic, and complacent. That we would only work as hard as what was required to continue on—not to make something of ourselves. I nodded along with the guy next to me— that seemed like my generation—that’s what everyone else was pinning us as. She looked up from her notes, her hands on either side of the podium and gazed at three hundred students.&lt;br /&gt;
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“That’s not what I think.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Integrated Advancement Office</title>
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;On the relationships between constituents, staff and fundraising and the importance of relationships. People to people are more important then ever.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;To some extent, educational institutions can afford to have some degree of patience. This is an advantage to encourage and build the communication between various parties in meaningful ways. When we make people feel they matter at all levels, they will bring others to us.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;This ties in to a broad definition of philanthropy. What is real, what is genuine and what is authentic, in a way that helps promote the happiness and well-being of fellow human beings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We develop these relationships through the 6 “I”’s’ of Integration. Identity, Inform, Interest, Involve and Invest. Each step leads to the next one, and you can’t easily jump a step. These apply both to internal as well as external processes.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Relationships are with prospects, but are also with other advancement staff working together for a common cause. Compare old style advancement organizations with independent units to today’s operations which by necessity tend to be more integrated.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;How to people feel about the institution as they take their lifelong relationships as graduates and move into their primary giving years? What other organizations out there have the same constituency of bonded alumni that educational institutions do?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;With the combination of alumni, and an overall integrated advancement operation, we have a very good competitive advantage.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Some challenges. Some areas might not always agree with integrating fundraising into their operations.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We think about our internal operations and how we’re organized all the time, but how often do our external constituents think about this? 1-2 minutes a month at the most. We sometimes get lost in our own internal perspectives and viewpoints. Think about the analogy of a transit system. We don’t really care who runs the busses, we just want to get to work.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The idea of integration may be feared because of career implications through organizational change resulting from integration. Lack of communication of purpose can make marching to a common goal more difficult.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Integration starts up front with the applicant for the jog. When interviewing and alumni relations person for example, ask questions about fundraising, experience with systems to assess the degree of flexibility regarding integration right at the onset of the hiring process. This is also good relationship building for internal people. Hire staff with shared attitudes and values.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Comfort with people. Staff need to be seen as part of the institutional structure and environment and committed to the ideas of education and the mission of the institution, no matter what they are asked to do outside the possible bounds of their job description.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;All people in an integrated operation need to understand, meet and adhere to their quantitative goals both as individuals and as an integrated team.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;People with a variety of skills will be a better fit in an integrated model. For example, consider the integration of a piece in a magazine. An article on student awards, showing the value of the education, the investment in the award by a donor, and the value of a graduate bridging between all the different components of the past present and future of the organization. The articulation of the piece will require expertise from all areas in the advancement operations, from fundraising, stewardship, systems, alumni relations, communications, marketing and other organizational units.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Integration works, and in truly integrated operations, it can be very powerful.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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