Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
September 27, 2016
All Articles, Announcements/EventsCybersecurity, Julie Goldstein
Posted by Julie Goldstein, Cyber-risk IT security analyst. Throughout October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), the UC IT Blog will run a series of articles to promote cybersecurity awareness at UC. NCSAM is an annual, national campaign to raise…
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UC Tech News
September 22, 2016
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAnnelie Rugg, Slack, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
Posted by Annelie Rugg, CIO, Humanities Division, UCLA. I work with a staff of thirty at our Center for Digital Humanities. Our size makes it relatively easy to get to know one another and yet, until recently, there was a…
Read more about Technology and Community: Our Slack Experience
UC Tech News
September 20, 2016
All Articles, Feature ArticlesDesiree Silva, UC Merced, UCM, Virtual Reality, WAVE
Posted by Desiree Silva, communications officer, UCM Office of Information Technology. Students participating in research at higher education institutions have been known to immerse themselves in their work. UC Merced’s new WAVE system will help students take that to a…
Read more about Catching a New WAVE of Technology at UCM
UC Tech News
September 16, 2016
All Articles, Announcements/EventsGabe Youtsey, Slack
Posted by Gabe Youtsey, CIO, Agriculture and Natural Resources. The UC IT Community now has a Slack channel just for us – UCTech. The UCTech “team” already has over 850 subscribers, and 81 “channels,” or chat rooms on specific topics…
Read more about Slack is Us!
UC Tech News
September 13, 2016
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, UC Santa Cruz, UCCSC, UCCSC 2016, UCSC
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. UC Santa Cruz served as the perfect location for the 2016 University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC), which took place this past July at Porter College. The theme for the conference…
Read more about UCCSC 2016 Video Recap: In IT Together!
UC Tech News
September 6, 2016
All Articles, Feature ArticlesInette Dishler, UC Berkeley, UCB, Wisdom Cafe
Posted by Inette Dishler, senior talent and organizational consultant, UCB. UC staff members need to continuously learn, grow, and develop to stay relevant and contribute in a rapidly changing environment. The way people learn has shifted dramatically from a passive…
Read more about Social Learning and the Wisdom Café at UCB
UC Tech News
August 31, 2016
All Articles, SpotlightsAlexa Rivetti, Audrie Ramirez, Information Security, UCOP
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. “I never thought I would learn this much about UC,” said Audrie Ramirez, recent graduate of CSU East Bay, and information security intern at UCOP. “I actually didn’t know that much about…
Read more about Spotlight: Audrie Ramirez – Information Security Intern Extraordinaire
UC Tech News
August 30, 2016
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, Audrie Ramirez, Information Security
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, IT Marketing Intern, UCOP. Practicing good information security is easy! Learn how to keep your information safer in just thirty seconds, with the three simple security tips in the video below. Filmed on the 7th floor…
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UC Tech News
August 29, 2016
All Articles, Announcements/EventsDavid Lakatta, Library, UC Los Angeles, UCLA, webinar
Date: Tuesday, August 30 Time: 2 – 3 p.m. How do you put out IT fires, manage staff computers, updates, and the world with 3 staff employees, and new untrained student helpers each year? I don’t know either, yet we…
Read more about Webinar Tomorrow: Lions, Tigers, Patches, and Inventory. Oh My!
UC Tech News
August 25, 2016
All Articles, SpotlightsBob Fraysse, UCOP
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB student intern, UCOP. Bob Fraysse, currently an IT project manager at UC Office of the President, reflected on where his original plan to major in geology may have taken him. “I could have been standing…
Read more about Spotlight: UCOP’s Bob Fraysse – Keeping Customer Needs in Mind