User:Rhansen/ITS Blog Topic Ideas

Research Software News (or just Software News) A place for pod and office software update announcements, new software availability, reviews of software we support or would like to support. If the blog is about Research software we can limit it to statistical, analytical software, and bibliographic and publication software. Keyword: research or software

Statistical Tips Tips and reviews of tutorials, online webapps for Statistical techniques. Discussions of trends in analysis software. Keyword: statistics

User:Rhansen/My Blog Work Area

Renamed Data Analysis - Unordinarily Not Normal with the stated goal of not getting bored blogging. Not meant for official announcments, but rather to push limits beyond OLS.

Tags: non-normality, post-hoc-tests, outliers, power-analysis, non-parametric, qualitative-analysis, text-mining, experimental-design, sampling, excel-tips, data-transformation-tips, theory, practice, tips, tutorial, review, data-visualization, data-presentation, publication-formats, data-preparation, open-source, windows, macintosh

Resources: (other blogs, listservs, web sites, del.icio.us network/users that have relevant news or inspiration or resources related to tag topics) My del.icio.us user feed name: data-analysis-at-bu (da_at_bu?) (Individuals can contribute via the subscription capability for the specialty, ie subscribe to delicious_user/tag.)

Linux and Open Source

User:Rhansen/My Blog Work Area

Open source alternatives to MS Office products, online tutorials, discussion/reviews of new open source packages, Linux release notices (focussing on Debian, Suse, Fedora Core) Keyword: open-source, or linux

Tags: My del.icio.us user feed name: linux-at-bu (l_at_bu?) (Individuals can contribute via the subscription capability for the specialty, ie subscribe to delicious_user/tag.)

Web Warren Tips Keyword: web

Office Productivity Tips on being productive with everyday office applications, calendars, word processing, email. Keyword: office

Featured Technical Blogs Keyword: blogs

There should also be tags or categories naming operating systems (osx, windows, linux, unix). Anything that affects only bu-staff or bu-students or bu-off-campus should be tagged as such.

This scheme allows that official announcement forums can continue to be dominated (and regulated) for security, virus, pod hours, upcoming workshops, and system outage status.

Data Analysis Blog Intended Audiences on Campus

 * Research Multimedia Resource Center (publication, non-administrative oriented activities and announcements)
 * GIS Core facility
 * Library Data Services
 * Statistics Department
 * Statistical Programming Services
 * Epidemiology (Gary James' group)
 * Bioengineering? (too department specific)
 * Research Foundation
 * Graduate Student Professional Development
 * Linux Center/Grid Computing
 * Systems
 * Science Library
 * Networking (shared research space, issues affecting network access)
 * I2
 * ? Marketing
 * ? Watson
 * ? Small Business Development / MPA group
 * ? Leadership (SOM) group
 * Business 'research'/ news could coalesce into another separate blog … as could engineering news
 * ? Department Specific Research groups vs non-interdisciplinary