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7/14/2004
Wow. What an excellent summary of Gmail and its implications for higher education institutions.
My own opinion . . . Gmail is what we should be doing for our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. My bet is that this is going to evolve into users having a "magic purse" on the Internet that they can put everything digital that ever might need into and access it any time from anywhere. Wh'ever provides that magic purse has guaranteed eyeball time from the user, and this could be a way for institutions to lock up their academic communities through entire user lifetimes. Maybe an institution could license its own "brand" of Gmail from Google?
P.S. If anyone has a spare Gmail invitation, I'm looking to try it out myself:
terry.calhoun@scup.org. I've got 300,000 e-mail messages stored on my hard drive
and the thought of being able to Google that equivalent in Gmail-once more have
accumulated-is very attractive.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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:::::: THE BUZZ
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:::::: PRODUCTS AND APPS
: College Students Find WiFi Essential to Education, Survey Reports
: Digital Arts Alliance Adds Fordham U
: Amazon To Host Microsoft Solutions in the Cloud
: Online University Aims To Boost Rural Math and Science Teachers
:::::: NEWS
: Coming to Terms with Cloud Computing:::::: INTERVIEW
:: CRM Pushing into New Areas of Higher Ed
:::::: IT NEWS
:: Integrated Collaborative Environment Leverages Web 2.0:::::: ELEARNING TIPS
: Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students:::::: NEWS and PRODUCT UPDATES
: Stanford Testing iPhone Application Suite:::::: THE BUZZ
: The Generative Nature of the Digital Economy and Its Challenge to Educators:::::: ELEARNING TIPS
: Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students:::::: PRODUCTS AND APPS
: College Crime Gets Google Maps Mashup at UCrime.com:::::: NEWS
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