The Dublin Bunch

Readers might be surprised when I contend that accomplishing the goals of the Greek Management Center is in fact the easy part. Why? Because most of that work is technical and administrative — what it takes is loads and loads of very close attention to scads and scads of details coupled with well-managed follow up and great administration practices. Yes, it will take very smart people willing to work very hard to build the kind of systems that are needed for this effort. But these systems have already proven their worth, as evidenced by millions of well run franchises. Most of the software to run good systems are affordable and available “off the shelf”. Yes, putting it all together will be a huge accomplishment. But the really, really hard part is what I am going to address next.
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The essential premise of this essay is that the best Plan for Theta Chi @ Oregon to return to the glories of its past is to spearhead a wide-reaching effort designed to lift all boats inside the Greek Community. The good news is that Theta Chi has the requisite physical space for such an undertaking. More good news is that its alumni base is a model that other Greeks should learn to emulate. It also has, methinks, a House Director with the background, energy and passion that it takes for something so ambitious. Read the rest of this entry »

This subject poses both very hard questions and one very easy answer. The hard questions are “How much does it cost and how much to run it?”

These are much too hard for me to respond with accuracy — at least at this point in the exercise. But the easy answer I can provide — Read the rest of this entry »

Roger Boston has also asked me about how our Center will provide webcasting, virtual meetings, podcasting, and distance learning. For simplicity, let me call this topic “knowledge sharing”. Hopefully, my commentary will provide a framework for more precise help from him and others of his exerience and dedication. Read the rest of this entry »

Roger Boston has also asked me about the number of students we anticipate and the prime purpose for the Library. Let me address his questions. Read the rest of this entry »

Among the most experienced technologists on the planet is a Houston professor, Roger Boston. He has asked me about the size of our facility, the number of students we can expect at any one time, the ideas we have about how to arrange the desks, servers, cameras, television screens, seating arrangements, budgets. Hopefully, what follows will give a good mental picture of same. Here goes Read the rest of this entry »

Many very smart friends are now asking me thoughtful questions about the Greek Marketing Center. What follows in the next few posts to the Dublin Bunch blog site will be commentary designed to more precisely define our needs. Let’s start with Need Number One - Web site and blog meistering and the equipment necessary for same. Read the rest of this entry »

The first question that viewers might ask about this subject, is why is it posted to a blog section titled The Dublin Bunch? Surely, since this subject deals with fraternities and sororities, mostly on the campus of the University of Oregon, it belongs at my blog site devoted to Greeks. (I post it here as it is simply “too early” to uncover on my “Greek” blog site.)

What follows is a (painfully) long outline of this Read the rest of this entry »

April 17, 2007

Memo to Vint Cerf:

Dear Vint:

“No good deed goes unpunished.” The “good deeds” of your keynotes for Global Learn Day, and our exchanges since, are the primer for what follows. Knowing how busy you are, this is way too long. But the subject is too important for brevity, especially for those of our cast of mind. So I won’t apologize. Let me begin. Read the rest of this entry »

HOW CAN CIVIL SOCIETY USE MEDIA?

CHAPTER THREE

In this chapter—-
We can look at what is meant by the global commons.
We can remind ourselves about the size and importance of global civil society.
We can explore some of the possible beneficial actions that civil society might take.
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