Month: August 2013
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New Tech e-books: Safari Books Online
The Library now has a subscription to over 5000 e-books from Safari Books Online, which is a recognized leader in providing technology how-to books. We opted for the most current package aka the Basic Tech Library package, so the titles and editions change regularly in the collection. Each book we subscribe to is listed in…
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What Motivates Us to Work?
What motivates you to work? Is it money? Prestige? Pride in your output? Researcher Dan Ariely conducts compelling experiments that analyze what makes a person want to work. The results are extremely thought-provoking regarding motivation. According to Ariely, if you compare efficiency in work with work that is meaningful, you find that in today’s knowledge-based…
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Analysis is Good – More Analysis is Better!
How can we, as IT Professionals, be better at what we do? How can we keep an increasingly complicated environment available and useful to a wide range of customers with different levels of interest in the technical details? My answer? Use Quantitative Analysis (QA) to help us understand what’s happening in our environment on a…
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Emory Overview Video a Striking Achievement
Emory Marketing and Communication has released an overview video about Emory that offers powerful imagery and helps convince viewers that Emory University is an outstanding choice for students, faculty, and staff. This new video provides a vivid impression of Emory University and shows a high-level, somewhat abstracted summary view of the university. It was developed…
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Good News, Bad News for Ceray Doss-Williams
Ceray Doss-Williams (PMO) recently received her Project Management Professional (PMP) credential, the most important industry-recognized certification for project managers … but then broke her ankle moments later! While details are fuzzy as to how the injury occurred (and Ceray is not talking), rumor has it that she was out celebrating with Kid Rock, Johnny Manziel, and Drake when…
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Mike Geraghty, Project Manager, PMO
Mike joins the PMO staff to work specifically on IT construction projects. Currently he is overseeing work on the residence hall on the Oxford campus. Prior to coming to Emory, Mike was at the University of North Georgia, where he was the Infrastructure Manager for two years, managing projects for new construction and 300,000 sq.…
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Dana Kuebler, Project Manager, PMO
Dana is another new project manager in the PMO office, working specifically on library-related and enterprise application projects at the outset of her Emory career. Prior to coming to Emory she spent two years as an implementation consultant at Vertafore, where she would travel around the country installing enterprise-wide applications. Before that she worked for…