Webcasting for Sustainability,
Continued.

Presentation for Sustainability Building Reps.
date & place: March 10, 1999, Hewitt Annex 2.
presenter: jim.cerny@unh.edu (Computing & Information Services)

This is a continuation of the discussion from the February 17th meeting.

Looking at Examples.

To make things more tangible and to promote discussion, it helps to see some actual examples. The following show services either in existence at UNH or illustrative of what we might attempt. The focus remains: How to get notification to people in an effective and efficient way that is easy to use? The following issues come up when considering the needs of the senders, receivers, and tech support staff:

• Does the audience have access?
• Does it imply a passive or active audience?
• Does it avoid spamming, i.e., can someone avoid receiving the notice?
• Does it make good use of the technical resources, i.e., bandwidth, disk storage, and other system resources?
• Does it accommodate degrees of urgency, from immediate (warnings) to long-term (conferences)?
• Is it easy for the senders to use, e.g., does it allow require any special skills or permissions?
• Does self-policing work for content, within a framework of University policies?

Examples.

• Mailing lists. We use ListProc to support more than 300 lists with more than 10K subscribers.
• Searching calendars. An example of a custom Infoseek search form to find calendar information.
• MyYahoo. An example of a personalized Web newspaper.
• NetMind. An example of a Web page-change notification service.
•   And a Microsoft introduction to Webcasting.

Needs and Next Steps?