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Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities
From: Alex Campoe <campoe () USF EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:27:07 -0400
I think that people will use what they want to use, what they feel comfortable using, no matter what you do. Unless your local blogs are password protected, students and staff should be careful with what they post no matter who is hosting it. We rolled out our own blog solution for the students a few years ago, http://blog.usf.edu. Today, we maintain about 3,000 blogs. After we deployed it other campus organizations showed interest and started using it. For instance, one of the regional libraries, http://catherin.blog.usf.edu . Alex Clifford Collins wrote:
A faculty member on our campus recently approached our IT group to have a blog and/or wiki set up to support her classes next month. This request was out of the blue and didn't go through normal channels (department head, planning committees, etc). IT's response was that some thought, planning and a server were necessary to do it right and therefore more time would be needed to provide a supportable solution. Now the faculty member is saying she will just use one of the many "free" ones on the Internet. I'm interested in people's view of any risks or other down-sides to such an approach. Pointers to papers, analysis and whatnot would be appreciated as well. Your thoughts? Clifford A. Collins Network Security Administrator Franklin University 201 South Grant Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43215 "Security is a process, not a product"
-- ---------------------- J. Alex Campoe Associate Director, Systems / Data Security Manager Academic Computing - University of South Florida - Tampa Phone: (813) 974-1796
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- Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Clifford Collins (Jun 22)
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- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Cal Frye (Jun 22)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Valdis Kletnieks (Jun 23)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Jun 23)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Brad Judy (Jun 24)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Jun 25)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Valdis Kletnieks (Jun 25)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Brad Judy (Jun 25)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Brad Judy (Jun 25)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Cal Frye (Jun 25)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities Alex Campoe (Jun 26)
- Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities David Gillett (Jun 26)