Articles Archive for June 2006

Advanced CAMP - Enterprise Workflow 2nd day
Posted in Work on 30 June 2006

Policy and Process Discussion
Ken K opens with a very funny cat herding video
Richard - Penn State
2004 Strategic Initiative was developed along with a plan. Purchased the Fujitsu workflow engine on Linux on a Mainframe. Moving 75 Mainframe forms.
2 academic and 1 financial process will be done first.
Will establish a Workflow Governance body. [...]

EDUCAUSE CAMP - Enterprise Workflow Case Study
Posted in Presentations, Work on 30 June 2006

The following is my presentation on Enterprise Workflow for the EDUCAUSE Advance CAMP on Enterprise Workflow. This presentation was given on June 29, 2006.
The PDF of my presentation is here: UW-Madison CAMP Workflow Presentation as a PDF

Advanded CAMP - Afternoon Session
Posted in Work on 29 June 2006

Case Studies
My presentation
I have posted separately here: Educause CAMP Enterprise Workflow Case Study
You can also find it onmy EDUCAUSE Profile Page
Manish Devjani - NYU
NYU is using Oracle Workflow as a stand-alone system. They have several automated workflows in place: Budget Integration Application (Modification, Submission, Capital Projects, Grants), Personnel Action Submission System, Tuition [...]

Advanced CAMP - Enterprise Workflow Morning Session
Posted in Work on 29 June 2006

I’m in Burlington Vermont - just after the flood - attending the EDUCAUSE Advanced Camp on Workflow Models and Technologies. This meeting has a wiki space at Internet2.
Paul Hill, Bob Morgan - Opening Presentation
Discussion around “what is workflow”
Is there a difference between Human Workflow and Business Process Orchestration?
Industry will use the term [...]

Miniature Gardens
Posted in Life in Madison, random stuff on 20 June 2006

Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden
This looks something fun to try. Two Green Thumbs has miniature garden supplies, decor and plants. Seems like a great garden hobby that would be easy to weed on weekday afternoon.

Gnome abduction
Posted in Life in Madison, random stuff on 19 June 2006

Must have garden product from Uncommon Goods.

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Lola Turn’s Two
Posted in Life in Madison, Lola, random stuff on 15 June 2006

Lola in car
Originally uploaded by jimphelps.
Today is Lola’s birthday. Our little girl puppy is now a 2 year old dog/puppy.
We are taking her out for a picnic dinner and swimming - which is her most favorite activity.
Happy Birthday Lola!
Hard to believe that you are now two.

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Break Out Tables at CIC Identity Management
Posted in Work on 8 June 2006

There were two break out sessions at the CIC Identity Conference.
The first was a breakout By Peer Groups. In this break out, Registrars sat together, CIOs sat together, etc. I was in the IT Idenity Management peer group. There were strong themes that came up during this discussion. Interestingly, the strongest [...]

Social Software and Academia - Conflicted views
Posted in Work on 6 June 2006

I gave a talk at the Common Solutions Group meeting on Social Software, Web2.0 and Folksonomies a couple of weeks ago. What followed was a very interesting discussion about the implications, possibilities and difficulties in dealing with social software in an academic (or enterprise setting).

CIC Identity Managment - Federated Identity and Sharing Resources
Posted in Presentations, Work on 5 June 2006

Session Details
This panel session discussed Federated Identity Management and Sharing Resources. The slides are here as a PDF
I was the moderator for the session. The panelists were:

Kevin Morooney, PSU, Senior Director, Academic Services
Kenneth Forstmeier, PSU, Director Office of Research Information Systems
Mike Grady, UIUC, Sr. Technology Architect & Strategist
Phyllis Davidson, IU, Interim Assistant Dean [...]