myMedia Poster Session

"Extreme Makeover: Building a Digital Asset Management System" - this poster session went very well for MSU. At the beginning of the session, we had lots of people surrounding our poster. I provided an overview and having the screen shots really helped. We were talking the entire poster session. In fact, we went over the time for the session because we still were having interest.

BEST PART - A guy from Berry College came up to me and said, "I saw you 2 years ago in Dallas and you had a podcast system. Now it seems that you took that and created something entirely different." Wow - he made my day. Someone remembered our great podcast system and stopped by to see what we are doing now! Way to go IT Infrastructure!

A person from Memphis State stopped by too - that was fun because we shared our podcast code with them. He actually talked to me via phone when they were implementing the podcast system.

The 50 handouts that we had went quickly. I am glad that I had my business cards and put the URL on the back. Had great comments on that ingenious idea too.

BEST PART 2: Coming back from the conference, I stopped by Walgreens (typical stop in Orlando - right?). When leaving Walgreens, a guy riding in a bicycle powered rickshaw yelled out to me, "Great Session Today - it was really wonderful - in the Lightening Round". I thanked him. That was fun. But, presenting is easy when the content is outstanding.

Questions or Comments from the Poster Session:

1. Copyright - as long as we state in our policies that the faculty is responsible for uploading material that isn't copyrighted all is well in "copyright land". Not sure that we state that anywhere, but lots of questions about copyright.
2. What programming language used?
3. How is the podcast recording integrated?
4. Graphic display of disc space - everyone liked that feature
   
5. Since this is open source, will you share?
6. How much disc space have you allocated? What do you anticipate needing?
7. You can upload more than just video/audio files?
8. What type of file would not be acceptable?
9. Do you have a media server/streaming server?
10. This is a download only thing?
11. Can students upload? Do you expect giving them accounts to own collections?
12. there were more....just can't think right now.

To Systems Services - thank you for writing/creating a great management system. To User Services - thank you for creating a great user interface. We received many compliments on the interface. And thanks to Todd Hall who works with me in ITI for helping out during the poster session. He did a terrific job in handling the technical questions! I felt at ease knowing he was there and could better answer those questions.

Oh - found a typo in the poster as we were taking it down. LOL -- "plublish"