Innovativ Consulting Partners is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a "Open Source" Community” on the edu1world.org higher education networking website.
I am personally inviting you to join this online community today. Membership for faculty and staff of institutions of higher education is being provided by Innovativ Consulting Partners at no cost to you. As a member, you will be able to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions regarding open source solutions with professionals from around the world.
Why an Open Source Community?
• College and University campuses are challenged with escalating costs and scarce financial resources. Open source software solutions are cost-effective alternatives and should be explored.
• Higher education professionals are challenged daily by the sheer volume of available information. The edu1world Open Source Community will help narrow your focus to mission critical information.
• You want an unbiased forum for comparing and contrasting the options. The edu1world Open Source Community fills the need for a free, open, unrestricted, vendor-neutral online community of practice for those wishing to share information and educate themselves on the options.
• You want to tap into people who have already done the time-consuming research and development work. Our Open Source Community gives you access to peers who have researched, implemented and tested Open Source products, and are willing to share the results. Innovativ’s expert professionals will also be on hand to respond to a wide variety of Open Source technology questions.
• Networking is vital to the flow of timely intelligence among colleagues. In addition to the Open Source Community, edu1world provides a host of online networking tools, databases, and communities of practice -- all free to higher education institution employees and accessible 24/7.
The edu1world Open Source Community is the first Web 2.0 collaboration on this important topic just for Higher Education. We at Innovativ Consulting Partners are particularly pleased to be partnering with edu1world on the project. Having known and worked with edu1world founders Liz Dietz & Vicki Tambellini for more than ten years, I know they have the knowledge of the higher education market and the capacity to cultivate a community that will deliver great value to education users.
Edu1world.org is made up of virtual communities for higher education faculty, administrative professionals, associations and vendors who are interested in and work with technology. It is a community where members from around the world connect, collaborate, communicate, and access the information they need to succeed.
In the spirit of “openness,” what better way to assist the higher education community than the establishment of a site that capitalizes on the social networking capabilities of edu1world?
I join Vicki Tambellini and Liz Dietz of edu1world in extending an invitation for you to subscribe to this complimentary service today.
If you are not already a member, edu1world will create your user profile containing just your name (email addresses are never visible for the rest of the users) and you will be able to further expand your profile according to your own preferences as well as to change the password sent by the system. You will receive an e-mail with your user name and system password for logging in to the edu1world website. Access to the secure Open Source Community will be approved once you successfully login.
You are welcome to forward this invitation to anyone employed by a higher education institution anywhere in the world. All are welcome to join and participate. Let’s make this an informative, thought provoking and productive group.
Again, welcome. Together we can make this community of great value to you, to your institution and to your global peers in higher education technology.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with your suggestions for the site. I am looking forward to connecting with you online.
Warm regards,
Tony DiSanza
Managing Partner
Innovativ Consulting Partners
