Re: [school-discuss] Metadot and MIT

[Daniel Guermeur <daniel@metadot.com>]

Matt,

MIT use it for different portal sites at department level. The last one 
is the Civil Engineering department (see http://cee.mit.edu).
The first step is to share information via the public portal then to 
allow research staff and students to share research papers (project 
collaboration) and discuss with their teams all online via Metadot. 
There are some possible plans to manage job openings as well and 
implement the staff database (Metadot has a user directory build in).

Daniel


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Daniel,

Interesting that this came accross the list. Here at OU we are beginning
involvement with the Sakai project of which MIT is a core member. Sakai,
among other things, provides a Colaborative Learning Environment and 
Portal
via the uPortal and Chef software. I find it hard to believe they would 
sink
millions into that and abandon it, so I'm curious as to where they will 
be
using Metadot and how it relates to Sakai?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263


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On Oct 8, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Daniel Guermeur wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Just to announce that Metadot Portal Server software has a new 
> university user: MIT.
> Metadot is used by numerous schools and university including Berkeley, 
> Pace and many orders for their intranet, extranet or organization 
> websites. Metadot provides content management, collaboration and 
> portal (like My Yahoo) functionality. The key differentiator is the 
> extreme ease of use so that non technical users can manage the content 
> without asking their busy IT person to help.
>
> See live sites at:
> http://www.metadot.com/index.pl?id=2528
>
> Daniel
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> Daniel Guermeur - daniel@metadot.com
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