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November 21, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesFood Security for Students program, Jeannine Cuevas
By Jeannine Cuevas. According to the UC Office of the President, over 40% of students UC wide sometimes don’t get enough to eat because they simply cannot afford to buy food. At the same time, an estimated 40% of food…
Read more about New UCSF App Gets Surplus Food to Students
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November 21, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, Sharecase 2017, UC San Francisco, UCSF
By Alexa Rivetti. Sharecase was a free, full-day IT conference and educational expo at UCSF’s Mission Bay Conference Center on October 12, 2017, with 822 staff, students, and faculty in attendance. The theme this year was “IT Ecosystem: Success through…
Read more about Sharecase 2017: Success through Collaboration
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November 15, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesLucy Greco, Zoom
By Lucy Greco. In early 2016, several people from across the UC system joined Procurement on a Request for Proposal (RFP) team to look for a new audio and video conferencing platform. Because UC has a systemwide IT accessibility…
Read more about Zoom Accessibility: A Success Story
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November 15, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesJessica Hilt, UCCSC, UCCSC 2017
By Alexa Rivetti. Every summer, the UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) gathers hundreds of IT professionals from all around the system to discuss the latest technology, learn best practices, and network with colleagues. UCCSC 2017 at UCSD was the biggest…
Read more about The UCCSC 2017 Recap Video is Here!
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November 8, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesMolly Greek, SaaS
By Molly Greek. At UCD Health, like other organizations, we consider SaaS (software as a service) as an option for our implementations. We don’t always choose SaaS, but in the last two to three years, the Enterprise Applications team alone…
Read more about Are you SaaS-y? Me too! 5 Lessons on Using Software as a Service
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November 8, 2017
All Articles, SpotlightsAdministrative Technology Services, Alison Spencer, Jonathan Whitman, UCSD
By Alison Spencer. At UC San Diego, academic advisors now get help from a data model to guide students toward a timely graduation. Jonathan Whitman, the Director of Technology for Administrative Technology Services at UCSD, led a program to utilize…
Read more about Spotlight: UCSD’s Jonathan Whitman – Campus Partnerships for Student Progress
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November 1, 2017
All ArticlesAlison Spencer, Healthcare, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
By Alison Spencer. When UCLA Health clinicians open a patient chart, they use a system that helps them see the patient as a whole individual, much more than a list of medications, treatment plans, and problems. This is the “patient…
Read more about Providing Personalized Care: UCLA Health’s Patient Story
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November 1, 2017
All ArticlesSlack, Tim Marconi
By Tim Marconi. Have you heard about this UC Tech Slack thing? No? Well it is a rapidly growing community with 2,500 of your information technology (IT) colleagues across the entire University of California. We have representation from all campuses…
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November 1, 2017
All Articles, Announcements/EventsTelecommuting, Tim Marconi, webinar
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2017 Time: Noon – 1:00pm Description: There has been a lot of conflicting research as to whether telecommuting is good or bad for an organization. It always comes down to “it depends” on many different factors….
Read more about Upcoming Webinar: Telecommuting – Work Is What We Do, Not Where We Are
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October 25, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesBis Mukherjee, Ennetix, UC Davis, UCD, Yvonne Tevis
By Yvonne Tevis. UC Davis has deployed network analytics and diagnostics software offered by a campus-incubated startup. Now the service is being piloted at UC Santa Cruz and UC Irvine, and other UC campuses are looking into it as well….
Read more about UC Davis Startup Offers Network Analytics and Diagnostics