What Were the Top 5 Stories for UC IT in 2020?
January 20, 2021 All Articles 0
By Mark Cianca and Yvonne Tevis.
- Well, COVID—and Remote Work and Learning
The most-viewed blog article for 2020 is an open letter
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UCLA Health App Becomes a Global Business
October 14, 2020 All Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. Five years ago, this publication told you about DEARhealth, a health care platform from UCLA that grew into a business.
A lot has happened in the past five years: The digital health company, founded by Drs….
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Document and Web Accessibility: Basic Tips and Online Training
By Yvonne Tevis. Did you know images in a website or document need “alt tags” to be accessible? Or that links should never be “here” or “read more?”
Find out how and why through two new tip sheets from Siteimprove.
Getting Started with the Basics
The UC Electronic…
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Zoom Site Licenses Help UC Meet Online Demand
By Yvonne Tevis. To slow the spread of COVID-19, UC staff are working from home and classes are going online. Demand for remote work tools has skyrocketed. “I should have bought stock in Zoom” is a common refrain.
Fortunately, the…
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Top 5 UC IT Stories for 2019
January 22, 2020 All Articles 0
By Mark Cianca and Yvonne Tevis.
- Diversity and Inclusion Get the Spotlight
The UC IT community is focusing on diversity from all angles. A new “Diversifying the IT Culture” track boasted 16 sessions at our big annual…
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A Map for Collaboration
December 18, 2019 All Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. This is the story of how three UC employees – from three separate campuses – got what they wanted because they worked together.
What did they want? As process improvement people, they wanted tools. Specifically, a tool…
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Backstage: How UC Got the IT Infrastructure Deals
July 24, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis.
About one year ago, UC struck amazing deals with IT infrastructure companies – deals that likely will save the university up to $16M a year for five years.
It’s true, UC Procurement rocks negotiation.
But UC also…
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The Technology behind the Cool Campus Challenge
April 10, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis.
Did you take the Cool Campus Challenge yet? It’s not just about saving the planet. It’s also about the evolution of an IT tool built by a UC grad student.
Chris Jones, director of the
What Can You Do for Accessibility? Take the New Online Training
February 6, 2019 All Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis.
Imagine if you were blocked from using the Internet – no websites, no shopping, no apps, no Uber… How frustrating would that be? How would you get anything done?
That’s the experience people with disabilities can have….
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Money, Mayhem, Mortality: A Cyber Tale
October 31, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Yvonne Tevis. It was a stormy night on the Dark Web.
But on a sunny UC campus one morning, Jack Tern was plowing through email. The ‘replies-to-all’ were driving him batty. So much work piling up, meetings to arrange, invoices…
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