Archive for April, 2010
Using Google Moderator at Gustavus
Google Moderator allows an audience to “decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most”. Visitors to the site submit a question (or suggestion or idea) and identify which questions they like from other contributors. The list of questions can then be sorted by the popularity of the question. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how […]
On margins, fonts, and paper usage
As I was carrying the 80 page faculty meeting packet from my post office box back to my office, I started to think again about paper usage on campus. Last semester, Chloe Radcliffe pointed out that reducing default margin sizes from 1.25 inches to 0.5 inches reduces paper usage by 25%, and I see that […]
Discovering mailing list members
I just figured out yesterday that you can use the Gribly to discover who receives emails for some email aliases. For example, previously I had wondered what members of the Gustavus community receive emails that I send to the alias for the Academic Operations Committee. If you use that email alias as your search term, […]