Category Archives: Data Management

TOP 10 things to consider when using a new service or online tool.

Posted on 02/26/2024 by William Stites

What am I agreeing to?Creating an account = signing a contract. Each time you accept or agree to “terms of service” (ToS), you sign a contract between you/the organization and the service. What information am I sharing?Each time you accept or … Continue reading →

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Using Common Sense Privacy Rating in Your School’s Vetting Process

Posted on 02/18/2024 by William Stites

As the conversations swirl around the application, services, vendor vetting, and AI data concerns (see Nick Marchese recent ATLIS post – AI tools that use data prompts and user data to train models), I am curious about the criteria used in … Continue reading →

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The Low Hang Fruit of CyberSecurity

Posted on 11/02/2020 by William Stites

The threats relating to cybersecurity are real and on the rise amid the COVID crisis. Phishing-related attacks are up over 600%, and users are 3x more likely to click on a COVID-related link and enter their user credentials. Institutions small … Continue reading →

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10 Website Tips for 2020 – My Takeaways from FinalsiteU.

Posted on 03/08/2020 by William Stites

There are numerous things that you can learn while attending a conference, and the best are the things you can take away that apply across several areas.   This past week I attended the Finalsite user conference – FinalsiteU – in … Continue reading →

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Using Finalsite and Google Forms to address complex form creation.

Posted on 09/27/2018 by William Stites

  We are often asked to create a variety of different forms for our institutions: donations, events, interests, just to name a few. Many of these can be built quite easily, but when you have a particularly complex form to build … Continue reading →

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Thoughts and musing as I start my 25th year.

Posted on 09/23/2018 by William Stites

How many of you knew that I started at my current, first and only job as a student teacher in 1993? I was a student at Montclair State University and planning on becoming a third grade teacher. I had previously … Continue reading →

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5 tips for avoiding the blank stare when talking about data management.

Posted on 01/19/2018 by William Stites

We’ve all seen it, that moment when you start talking to people about a topic and you know they have no idea what you are talking about or don’t understand half of the words coming out of your mouth. You … Continue reading →

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Big Data? We need to focus on Little Data!

Posted on 02/03/2014 by William Stites

It’s everywhere!  People are talking about it in all aspects of life. Business, research, education, economics, socialnomics… you can’t escape it! BIG DATA! Data is everywhere and in everything that we do. If you’ve bought anything, searched for anything or signed … Continue reading →

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Educators! Stacked Shared Notebooks in Evernote 5 is the BEST!

Posted on 11/19/2012 by William Stites

Evernote recently release a substantial update with 5.0.  There are some really cool new features, some amazing navigational changes and a much cleaner and appealing user experience. After watching the video you  get a quick glimpse into some of what … Continue reading →

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What I did on my Summer Vacation.

Posted on 09/29/2012 by William Stites

With summer is officially over I feel it’s about time for that recap every person has asked to write at some point in their lives… What I did on my Summer Vacation. While this isn’t necessarily going to be about … Continue reading →

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