When we migrated to Exchange, we also increased our online experience by
developing the community portal in Blackboard. Many things worked and
ported well, discussion boards did not. =20
Now we are on the edge of creating different portals through Sharepoint.
Portal experiences with Web 2.0 components are the future of grabbing
the online teenager. We are, of course, competing with Facebook and
other social sites. Mere text conferencing is not the future.=20
Andrew J. Speyer
Director of Information Technology Services
Choate Rosemary Hall
333 Christian Street
Wallingford, CT 06492
[voice] 203.697.2105
[help desk] 203.697.2572
aspeyer@choate.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Ivey
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:18 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Outsourcing email for free?
Hi!
We still use FirstClass and give all faculty, staff and students email
accounts. We have a number of folders we use to get out messages to
targeted groups - announcements folders; class business folders; sports,
club and organization folders; course folders; and purely social folders
(i.e. 'Book Reviews" or "Junior Lounge"). They are heavily trafficked,
and generally thought to be of great use for a variety of reasons. So I
find myself wondering how schools who outsource email deal with this
information-disseminating, community-building aspect of in-house email
systems - simply find other ways to serve those purposes, set up a
number of "dummy" email addresses that redistribute messages to
pre-determined groups, or what.
Thanks!
Take care,
Bll Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
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