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We will present strategies for analyzing your community, organizing the teams and sponsors of your project, engaging the community, progressing from engagement to consensus, moving from consensus to implementation, and maintaining and evolving the community as the resource matures. The program will include a mix of concept presentation, hands-on exercises, and discussions, as well as case studies involving strategic planning, collegiate IT needs assessment, e-learning, e-research, and customer services.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that converts voice calls to data packets that travel over the same networks that carry data traffic. With VoIP, users with can make calls via the Internet, whether from home, an office, a hotel, or anywhere else. Institutions often save considerable costs on long distance using VoIP, and features that cost extra from traditional phone service are often included in VoIP. VoIP systems integrate with services such as e-mail and online directories, and institutions that implement VoIP can deploy converged networks that combine voice, data, emergency notification, and other systems, streamlining maintenance and reducing operational costs. By migrating phone service to the data networks that colleges and universities maintain anyway, institutions can take fuller advantage of that infrastructure while providing another imperative to ensure the reliability of those networks, which benefits all of the IP services. VoIP involves tradeoffs surrounding factors such as cost, flexibility, reliability, and user expectations, but evidence continues to mount that improvements in technology are tilting such evaluations in favor of VoIP.

The EDUCAUSE 2010 program is now live and ready for you to explore the full interactive program. This year's conference, October 12–15 in Anaheim, also presents an opportunity to engage within the community, network with people from similar institutions, and garner practical takeaways you can bring back to campus.

Browse and search the program by the following methods:

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of Jessica A. Koepfler, a doctoral student in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, as the 2010 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. The fellowship, which was established to honor the memory of CNI founding Executive Director Paul Evan Peters, recognizes outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, as well as civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination.

Read the entire press release.

The Coalition, which is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, is headquartered in Washington DC. CNI is on the Web at http://www.cni.org/.

The federal government is in the process of awarding nearly $5 Billion in BTOP grants to foster broadband deployment nationwide. Join us to hear how two grant recipients are spending their money, including real-world tales of wetlands, subcontractors, and fiber. Learn more in this free, hour-long web seminar, "Following the BTOP Money: What to Do After the Grant Arrives."

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources:

Microsoft Corp., a worldwide leader in software, services and solutions, has become an InCommon Affiliate. The Affiliate program connects higher education institutions and their federating partners with commercial or non-profit organizations that provide software, content, guidance, support, and implementation and integration services related to participating in the federation. Read the details here.

Congratulations! You've just been awarded that multimillion-dollar Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant you sweated over for weeks and weeks, and now you can start building. Welcome to the world of subcontractors, environmental impact studies, historical preservation committees, wetlands remediation, and more arcane regulations than you ever imagined (and, yes, a few hundred miles of fiber). In this session, we'll discuss the nuts-and-bolts (and conduit and backhoe) details of deploying broadband networks from two perspectives: starting from scratch and adding to an existing statewide network.

The EDUCAUSE Core Data Service is in its eighth year of operation, so many EDUCAUSE members have had substantial experience with CDS. And, reflecting the diversity of U.S. and international membership, member experience with and feedback concerning CDS vary widely. Eliciting member input about usage (and non usage), valuable features, shortcomings, and suggestions for improvement has been a critical component of the redesign project.

CampusEAI Consortium Announces Private Cloud for Higher Education

Private Cloud enables institutions to host enterprise applications

Cleveland - July 27, 2010 - CampusEAI Consortium today announced the availability of the CampusEAI Consortium Private Cloud for higher education.  The CampusEAI Private Cloud is powered by industry vendors and service providers including Dell (Nasdaq GS: DELL), AT&T (NYSE: T), NetApp (Nasdaq GS: NTAP), VMware (NYSE: VMW), Symantec (Nasdaq GS: SYMC), Equinix (Nasdaq GS: EQIX) and Cisco (Nasdaq GS: CSCO).

The CampusEAI Private Cloud is an elastic, scalable platform that allows colleges and universities to host enterprise applications including:

Julio Lopez is Director of Distance Education Operations at the National College University in Puerto Rico. In this interview, he describes the online learning program at his institution and shares his philosophy for creating a successful online learning experiences for students.

Music: "Memorial Day" by Jaime Beauchamp

EDUCAUSE has participated in four different sets of comments that were delivered in recent weeks to the FCC. The documents addressed three different questions before the Commission and were written and filed jointly with various partners and coalitions. Links to the full documents and their main points are as follows:

1.      Schools and Libraries Universal Service Support Mechanism (E-rate program) and the National Broadband Plan… submitted July 9, 2010. EDUCAUSE submitted comments as part of the SHLB (Schools, Hospitals, and Library Broadband) Coalition and in close cooperation with the K-12 and library community in which it stated:

a.       Support for reducing the complexity of the E-rate process;

b.      Support for greater flexibility in choosing services, especially “dark fiber”;