Archive for the 'Technology' Category

CFEA Midyear Conference Registration

October 9th, 2007 by jeangileno

Register for CFEA’s annual midyear conference and join your fellow communicators! This year’s dynamic event will feature writing, design and IT tracks, as well as media/crisis training. The CFEA Board looks forward to welcoming you to Delta Tau Delta headquarters in Indianapolis on Friday, November 16th. The program begins at 9:00 a.m. and runs until [...]

Open rates, declining numbers

April 24th, 2007 by jasonpearce

If you are one of the many groups sending out bulk-emails to your members and wonder why your open rates continue to decline, there are two likely reasons.
The first is list fatigue. After receiving the same information on a regular schedule again and again, users begin to lose their enthusiasm. The more messages you send, [...]

Tech Magazine discontinues print distribution

April 2nd, 2007 by jasonpearce

InfoWorld, a tech magazine that provides specialized IT coverage for company executives, ceases printing its weekly publication, opting instead to focus on events business and online coverage on InfoWorld.com.
“In the past decade, magazines and newspapers with both print and online components clung to processes that were designed around the rigid requirements of print publication, rather [...]

Spam Filters and False Positives

February 22nd, 2007 by jasonpearce

A few times a month, staff or members come to Lambda Chi Alpha’s IT department asking about our spam filters and why their message was blocked. Those questions aren’t easy to answer, but I did try to break the message into smaller pieces and offer them an executive summary.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Within a 20 hour time frame, [...]

FraternIT at SXSW

February 15th, 2007 by jasonpearce

I know Lambda Chi Alpha and Beta Theta Pi will be sending some of their IT staff to the SXSW Interactive Conference, March 9-13, 2007, in Austin. Anyone else going? It would be fun to have a FraternIT meetup/mashup. Some of the after-hours events look cool. Here are the SXSW after-hours events I’m thinking about [...]