This is a reminder to put together a long term IM development plan.
- include using Basecamp as the project management platform
- establish development platform , and goal to move finished, tested apps to production server
- start developing some sharepoint expertise with long term goal of RFK wide intranet
- Pilot use of chat technology for non-emergency school-residence communications as well as replacement for several classes of residence logging, are transcripts good enough?
- Develop prioritized list of development projects
- Infrastructure for generic form based data collection to email to implementation agent, essentially single step nworkflow except that email can be combined with processing
- Infrastructure for multi-step work flow, essentially web based checklist augmented with links to forms based steps, whose steps yield results that tie back into the flow
- Prime candidates for collaborative data collection and reporting are
- face sheets
- incident reporting
- BDM and Grades
- take a look at external data requirements
Some of the products from 37 signals are amazing...I have long admired Ruby on Rails and want to get more into it.
ReplyDeleteBASECAMP - used for project mgmt and collaboration nice price points till you get to SSL, todo lists, file sharing, writeboards, time tracking
3Projects/250MB/$12 15/500/$24 35/3G/$49 includes SSL
CAMPFIRE - is a browser based chat technology 4 simultaneous users (unlimited guests) /10mb/free 12/250mb/$12 Plus25/750mb/$24
I setup a set of accounts at the free level to try as a school-residence communication and logging aid...
Both services together at the high security level only come to $2.40 a day and can be canceled at any time with easy recovery of all data.
BACKPACK is their web based calendar product also slick and cheap.
HIGHRISE is their client management system