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2006 Faculty/Staff Edition - Volume 2 > What's New & Changing
What's New & Changing at Northwestern March 28, 2006Simplify Your Scheduling with Meeting Maker 8.5.3 If you feel as though there's just not enough time in the day, the new version of Meeting Maker should make tracking meetings and other daily activities even easier. By now, you should have downloaded version 8.5.3, available as of Monday, March 27. The new version has a new "look and feel," and there's much more:
For more information about Meeting Maker 8.5.3, please visit "What's New & Changing with Technology @ NU." Pubweb Users Find New Tools with Web Hosting Services Thank you Pubweb, users: more than 200 of you have already closed your Pubweb accounts and found how easy it is to move your Web site to an alternative service. Although Pubweb served as Northwestern's Web hosting service for experimental or personal Web pages, its use has declined significantly with advances in Web-related technologies and the increasing availability of hosting services. As a result, Pubweb will be retired on December 31, 2006. Find out more about Pubweb retirement on the NUIT Web site. Some faculty have used their Pubweb accounts to publish syllabi and other course-related information for student access and other academic uses. If you are using Pubweb for purposes which support the academic mission of the University, please contact Brian Nielsen in NUIT Academic Technologies at 847-491-2170 or b-nielsen@northwestern.edu for assistance identifying suitable alternatives. Pubweb account holders can continue to use the service until the end of 2006, but if you haven't used your account recently, take a few minutes to review its contents and close it permanently. Moving your content to an external provider is quick and easy. You can find out more about file transfers and hosting services on the Pubweb pages of the NUIT Web site. Please direct additional questions to the NUIT Support Center at 847-491-HELP (4357) or consultant@northwestern.edu. A Bad Harvest for Them, Safer E-mail for You You might not notice any changes to University resources online, but e-mail harvesters will. The NU Network and your e-mail inbox got a little safer this month with a new layer of security added to the University Online Directory. Starting in March, the Online Directory displays image files of e-mail addresses instead of active, clickable links. The change only applies to off-campus use of the Directory, making it difficult for harvesters to collect address links with automated programs. This practice, called e-mail obscuring, still allows addresses to be viewed by human users. You won't notice any change to the Online Directory if you are on campus or using Virtual Private Network (VPN), so you will continue to see active, clickable e-mail addresses for Directory listings. Even if you use the Online Directory from off campus and without VPN, you can also log into the Directory to view active links. The Northwestern Directory is not the only target for harvesters. It is easy for harvesting tools to capture active addresses from any Web site, so it is a good practice to obscure your e-mail address yourself when you post it online. It is easy to do — just add something obvious to your address. For example, if your address is test@testschool.edu, it can be safely posted as "test ATSYMBOL test school DOT edu." Learn more about safe e-mail practices on the Controlling Junk E-mail page on the NUIT Web site. Find out more about the change to the University Directory in the What's New & Changing @ Northwestern section of the NUIT Web site. Please direct questions to the NUIT Support Center at 847-491-HELP (4357) or consultant@northwestern.edu. << back |
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