Posts Tagged ‘ncsu’

Posted on October 29, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

NC State launches mobile & Twitter website embracing the social web. NC Colleges Get It.

For those of you who know me, then you know that I love to talk about what North Carolina is doing in the technology / social media/ mobile industry. Also you know that I’m a UNC fan but that’s another blog post. Today, while looking at my local @WayneSuttonNC twitter stream where I only follow people form NC, I saw a tweet from @Jason_austin who’s a NC State Developer about NC State new Mobile site featured in the campus bulletin. The tweet caught my attention so I clicked on the link to find more information.

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The article talks about how Jason Austin, with little/zero budget along with other NC State staff members created NC State’s new mobile website along with the NC State on Twitter site and maps page. Here’s an excerpt form the article.

At a meeting last spring, staff members from the Office of Information Technology and Web Communications met with volunteer Web developers from units across campus, such as engineering and the libraries.

They all agreed that the future of the Web was tied to mobile applications and that NC State needed a mobile site. No budget, no time, no formal structure? No problem, they decided.

The price tag for Duke’s recently launched mobile site, created by an outside vendor, was clearly out of reach, says Jason Austin, senior solutions implementation engineer with OIT.

I must say that I’m very impressed with NCSU mobile site and the fact they decided to build the site internally instead of spending the money to have it built like Duke University did is smart. Those Blue Devils…., remember I’m a UNC Fan.

The NC State Twitter page is designed very simimlar to search.twitter.com and provides links to the schools official twitter accounts and hashtags. They also provide the source code so even if you’re a business or another college you can create your own branded Twitter page too.

Update:John Rees shares the link to the UNC mobile site.

A big congrats to the university on embracing technology and understanding that the future of the web is mobile and embracing the use of Twitter. It will be interesting to see if other university will provide the same service. If you know of other university that have created their own mobile or Twitter page let me know in the comments.

Posted on July 18, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

My 1st World Wide Photo Walk in Raleigh, NC & favorite photos

Today I participated in my first photo walk on the campus of N.C. State University. The photo walk was apart of Scott Kelby”s Worldwide photo walk event that is organized by volunteers across the world today. Apparently there were two Raleigh photo walks groups but I was apart of the one led by Ashley Sue Allen @AshleySue.

Other attendees met at the NCSU bell tower around 9:45 A.M. and after brief introductions we basically walked around campus and took a lot of photos from 10:00 A.M. to noon. I had been on the campus before for various events in the past but due to a recent storm some of the trees were blown down or split open which made for an interesting scene and rare photos. Some of my favorite photos from today were taken under one of the campus bridges and of the expression tunnel.

I want to say thanks to Ashley for organizing the event and Scott Kelby for creating the Worldwide photo walk idea.

What is your favorite picture?