I’ve had several requests for my turkey brine and herb paste recipes. In a just-in-time fashion, I’ve posted them below. I use an organic, range raised heritage turkey for my Thanksgiving turkey. I also use this brine for pork chops and turkey breasts that I cook on the grill.

 
I’ve been pondering, wondering and worrying about how to bring value out of ITANA.org to the world at large.  I struck upon a metaphor over dinner with a friend at EDUCAUSE recently that brought my vision and the issues I’m pondering into sharp light for me at least.
 
I watched Captains Courageous, a wonderful 1937 [...]

Just had a hallway (okay, exhibit floor conversation) with Tom Black of Stanford University.  They have ideas on embedded enrollment functions in several places: inside their LMS, available via iPhone applications and elsewhere.  They would expose those enrollment functions as services then write to those services.  Interesting.  We also talked about orchestrating a flow, click [...]

Introductions of people.  A lot of interesting constituent groups that I didn’t realize existed:  I.T. Metrics, Learning Space Design.  http://www.educause.edu/groups
Cynthia Golden - VP for EDUCAUSE is doing the EDUCAUSE update.
There was a new President last year.  They have been doing a lot of change management over the past year.  There is a [...]

Merri Beth Lavagnino - Privacy and Policy
Policy and privacy are really consideration of the human aspects and impacts of technology.  Policies are: strategic direction and operating philosophy (which are usually informal and cultural), Public and Institutional policies (these are both documented and usually legal documents).
Institutional policy - a statement that reflect the philosophies and [...]

R.L. Bob doing the introduction: 
Advanced CAMP could mean to some people the advanced topics beyond just the basics.  Bob likes to think of it as the Advance Camp out in the wilderness where you are more likely to get caught in a blizzard, get shot and generally face the wilderness.
The theme that came out [...]

Indiana University
Completed a 10 year Strategic Plan which worked because they connected money to it.  You couldn’t get funding unless you showed how your project connected to one of the 71 strategic initiatives.  Completed a 10 year tactical Telecom Plan.  Instead of replacing 1/4 of the switches every year for four years, they [...]

Data Management  Discussion:
Key Issues:

Data Architecture, Analysis and Design
Data Security Management  - data access and security
Reference and Master Data Management  - making data available rather than copying data
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management - normalizing the data across the data warehouse
Document, Record and Content Management -
Meta Data Management -

The difference between Structured Data (data in authoritative [...]

Duke University
http://oit.duke.edu/tag/
Tech Architecture group at Duke is charged:

to track emerging technology and raise issues for the CIO’s consideration
review major decisions
integrate into the project management lifecyle
pay attention and champion certain solutions

Developed small set of principles - few enough that they could remember them around four areas:

Data
Infrastructure
Services
Support

Each of these areas are highlighted in each principle’s page (http://oit.duke.edu/tag/principles/p-robust-systems.html)
The [...]

The recording of my EDUCAUSE Live presentation is now available on the EDUCAUSE site. EDUCAUSE Live! IT/EA in Academia recording.