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New Public Printer in the Chateau

March 18, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest, Post for MiddNotes

LIS installed a new black & white printer and a release station for student use in Chateau 001 lower level study lounge.   The PaperCut print queue name is CHT001.   A list of all public printer locations can be found at http://go/print

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GO/phish

March 16, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

Early this morning, Middlebury experienced another email phishing attempt. The email message read like this:

— Message Start —

Warning !!!

Web administration has noticed your email was logged in in another location we advised that you change your PASSWORD to submit your new information CLICK HERE

Thank you for using our email.

Copyright ©2013 Email Helpdesk Centre.

— Message End —

Had you followed the CLICK HERE link in the phishing email, you might have seen another fraudulent Google form asking for your account credentials and other personal information.

Be advised that Google recently implemented security improvements to the Google Drive/Docs service that blocked the fraudulent form almost immediately. In addition, controls were enabled on our systems to block any additional matching messages from being delivered.

Still, if you suspect that you may have recently provided your Middlebury credentials to a fraudulent Google web form, you should immediately reset your password at go/activate and then contact the Helpdesk. If you become aware that your Middlebury account has been disabled, you must contact the Helpdesk to resolve.

It is important that community members keep themselves informed about these types of information security threats and be vigilant about protecting their credentials and personal information.

More information about safe computing practices is available at go/infosec and remember that you can report phishing attempts to phishing@middlebury.edu.

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For Managers & Staff: Setting and Reaching Your Goals with lynda.com

March 15, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest, Post for MiddPoints

Staff evaluations are in full swing and it’s time to set our sights for the coming year.  Staff…  Did you set goals that could be more easily reached if you had more technical skills?  Managers…  Do you have staff who want or need to acquire more technical expertise?  lynda.com is here to help!     

This small sampler of topics is just the beginning — lynda.com currently offers over 1600 course titles from which to choose.  Just click any of these course links, log on with your Middlebury username and password and you’re on your way.  Work through an entire course or view just the movie segments you need — it’s up to you.

Need a hand getting started?  Sign up for a lynda.com overview session,  visit go/lyndainfo for more details, or send an email inquiry to helpdesk@middlebury.edu.

Best of luck with your goal-setting!

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Friday links – March 15, 2013

March 15, 2013 by and
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

PBS: Will 3D Printing Change the World? (via Stephen Abram)  See also, the 3Doodler Kickstarter project — a 3D printing pen!

Google Reader R.I.P.! (although not until July 1, 2013). Lifehacker offers alternatives to organize and sort your RSS news feeds.

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Friday links – March 8, 2013

March 8, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

Article by Middlebury’s Jason Mittell about the contrast between the rhetoric regarding Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and that about the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI – free online availability of faculty journal articles) in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

 

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Life After Midd & lynda.com video-based learning

March 7, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest, Post for MiddNotes

lynda.com logo

Students…  Interested in skills you can use in Life Beyond Midd?  lynda.com has everything you need!  Just click any of these course links, log on with your Middlebury username and password and you’re on your way.  Work through an entire course or view just the movie segments you need — it’s up to you.

This small sampler of business skills topics is just the beginning — lynda currently offers over 1600 course titles from which to choose.

Need a hand getting started?  Sign up for our lynda.com overview session at noon on March 15.

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February 2013 Web Stats

March 4, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses.

Traffic

  1. www.middlebury.edu: 481,033 (520,072) visits from 260,386 (270,184) people
  2. sites.middlebury.edu: 66,202 (51,526) visits from 55,868 (44,242) people
  3. menus.middlebury.edu: 32,759 (33,886) visits from 19,047 (18,177) people
  4. mediawiki.middlebury.edu: 20,405 (20,887) visits from 19,517 (19,447) people
  5. courses.middlebury.edu: 18,946 (7,771) visits from 15,953 (6,340) people
  6. catalog.middlebury.edu 14,145 (7,295) visits from 12,695 (7,262) people
  7. web.middlebury.edu: 11,686 (11,891) visits from 10,987 (10,961) people
  8. eres.middlebury.edu: 11,348 (5,711) visits from 10,271 (4,021) people
  9. portal.middlebury.edu: 11,125 (9,710) visits from 9,389 (7,416) people
  10. biblio.middlebury.edu: 10,804 (10,524) visits from 9,744 (9,104) people

Top Pages

  1. www.middlebury.edu: 261,478 (286,339) pageviews
  2. www.middlebury.edu/athletics: 33,819 (32,931) pageviews
  3. menus.middlebury.edu: 33,206 (34,294) pageviews
  4. www.middlebury.edu/academics: 24,321 (26,928) pageviews
  5. courses.middlebury.edu/dashboard: 19,871 (5,664) pageviews
  6. www.middlebury.edu/admissions: 18,174 (22,339) pageviews
  7. courses.middlebury.edu: 17,336 (7,409) pageviews
  8. www.middlebury.edu/athletics/sports: 16,035 (15,779) pageviews
  9. web.middlebury.edu/database/directory/Default.aspx: 14,968 (14,762) pageviews
  10. www.middlebury.edu/academics/lib: 13,982 (13,035) pageviews

Search Terms

  1. Search Midd: 727 (894)
  2. academic calendar: 339 (411)
  3. mojo: 266 (338)
  4. moodle: 201 (127)
  5. course hub: 178 (88)
  6. menu: 155 (163)
  7. sites.middlebury.edu: 127 (94)
  8. winter carnival: 97 (48)
  9. schedule planner: 76 (27)
  10. banner web: 57 (128)

Browsers

  • Safari: 37.72% (37.85%)
  • Chrome: 22.43% (22.10%)
  • Internet Explorer: 18.47% (18.93%)
    • IE8: 9.68% (9.86%)
    • IE9: 6.04% (6.34%)
    • IE7: 2.26% (2.28%)
    • IE10: 0.41% (0.37%)
    • IE6: 0.08% (0.08%)
  • Firefox: 18.38% (18.42%)
  • Android Browser: 1.16% (1.23%)

Platforms

  • Macintosh: 44.62% (43.71%)
  • Windows: 40.71% (42.36%)
  • iOS: 11.51% (11.35%)
  • Android: 1.45% (1.50%)
  • Linux: 0.39% (0.37%)
  • BlackBerry: 0.11% (0.11%)
  • Windows Phone: 0.05% (0.05%)

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February 2013 Social Media Stats

March 4, 2013 by
Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

The following stats refer to activity on the Middlebury College Facebook page, the Middlebury College Twitter account, and share buttons on the main Middlebury College website. For trend comparison, the previous month’s statistics are included in parentheses, where appropriate.

Facebook Insights

  • 229 (233) new people liked our Page, while 57 (52) people unliked our Page.
  • 2049 (801) unique people shared stories about our page. These stories include liking our Page, posting to our Page’s Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of our Page posts, answering a Question we posted, RSVPing to one of our events, mentioning our Page, phototagging our Page or checking in at our Place. [Daily People Talking About This]
  • 58721 (20737) unique people saw one of the items shared in that way. [Daily Viral Reach]
  • 104926 (48283) unique people saw content associated with our Page. [Daily Total Reach]

Top Five Facebook Posts

“Reach” is the number of people who saw the post. “Engagement” is the number of people who clicked on the post.

  1. Middlebury students are confronting a formerly taboo subject — how much each of them pays to be at Midd. Check out this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reach: 8101, Engagement: 1489
  2. Middlebury is the most “winter wonderful” campus according to BuzzFeed. (Beautiful pic by Midd staffer Adam Franco!) Reach: 713, Engagement: 1069
  3. This amazing short film by new Feb graduate Bianca Giaever ’12.5 might be the best eight minutes you’ll spend today. (It’s quickly gone viral and you’ll see why when you watch it.) Reach:7356, Engagement: 999
  4. Do you have fond memories of J-term? Tell us what J-term course you’d want to teach if you came back to Midd. some day. Reach: 5997, Engagement: 377
  5. Check out the Feb Cam video, shot today at the annual ski-down celebration for February graduates. Special thanks to Feb Hanna Howell for wearing the camera up and down the mountain. Reach: 5077, Engagement: 290

ShareThis

ShareThis is a service that tracks the clicks on the sharing buttons on our website. These buttons are shown on news postings, which are primarily found in the News Room, Arts, Sustainability, and Athleticssections of the site.

Shares By Channel

  • Facebook: 72 (51) Shares, 3359 (3332) Clicks
  • Twitter: 31 (43) Shares, 579 (425) Clicks
  • Email: 28 (39) Shares, 248 (1050) Clicks
  • LinkedIn: 6 (13) Shares, 4 (6) Clicks

Top Five Shared Pages

  1. Men’s Basketball Loses Triple-Overtime Thriller To Amherst Shares: 13, Clicks 8
  2. Carolyn Kuebler to become editor of the New England Review Shares: 12, Clicks 691
  3. Men’s Basketball To Host Curry In NCAA Tournament Game – Ticket Info. Shares: 8, Clicks 71
  4. Soccer Drafts Crown Point’s Dmitri Duval From Team IMPACT Shares: 7, Clicks 343
  5. Women’s DMR Team Breaks National Record Shares: 7, Clicks 295

Data Sets

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