New CoT Intranet Coming Soon – What is SharePoint?

The marketing communications team will soon be implementing an intranet for the college of technology. The intranet will be a Microsoft SharePoint site.

What is a SharePoint site?

A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides a central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. A SharePoint site is a tool for collaboration, just like a telephone is a tool for communication, or a meeting is a tool for decision making. A SharePoint site helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. For example, a SharePoint site can help you:

* Coordinate projects, calendars, and schedules.
* Discuss ideas and review documents or proposals.
* Share information and keep in touch with other people.

SharePoint sites are dynamic and interactive — members of the site can contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment on or contribute to other people’s.

We’re still in the planning stages, but you can visit the site now. Log in with your career account username and password. In the username dialog box, you must type in the onepurdue domain using the format “onepurdue\username”.
https://share.tech.purdue.edu/

New Facebook Group Gaining Momentum

The College of Technology recently created a new group on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15467539572

With the 2008/2009 school year just ahead of us, we’re hoping new students will ask questions and get a little insight from alumni and faculty/staff before showing up in August. Feel free to join the group and offer some suggestions to incoming freshmen & upperclass. We’ll also promote events and ocassionally send out important announcements to group members.

The group is also a great way to stay in touch with alumni. Most of the current members (100+) are alumni.