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Using Metrics
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Using metrics is crucial to the success of your organization. But how do you make use of these measurements? Martin Klubeck, author of the book, Metrics How to Improve Key Business Results, and Tim Chester, CIO at the University of Georgia, share their advice on using metrics for success.

Jodi Ito is the Information Security Officer at the University of Hawaii. She is responsible for the development and implementation of the university's new information security program, investigations and analyses of cyber incidents and attacks, coordination of any remediation and response efforts including coordination with any law enforcement agencies, awareness and training of information security issues and enforcing university policy with respect to the university's technology resources.

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Mike Sharkey is the director of academic analytics at the University of Phoenix. The University of Phoenix has more than two hundred campuses worldwide and offers degrees in over one hundred programs. In this interview, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference, Sharkey talks about the instructional technology challenges that come with such a large, distributed organization.

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Joshua Kim is the director of learning and technology for the Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program at Dartmouth College. He also serves as an ECAR fellow and part-time blogger for Inside Higher Ed. In this interview, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Conference, he discusses the need for relationship building between for-profit and non-profit instutions in an effort to foster innovation and scalability. He also talks about some of the biggest challenges facing higher ed in the coming decade.

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The Preserving Virtual Worlds project is an on-going investigation into the preservation of computer games and interactive fiction. It is now entering its second phase, which focuses on the identification of significant properties of computer games and attempt to develop a framework for determining appropriate preservation strategies based on a particular game’s significant properties. I spoke with Jerome McDonough, an associate professor at the University of Illinois graduate school of information Science about the project.

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The ELI 2012 Annual Conference Preview
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The ELI 2012 Annual Conference takes place Feburary 13th through the 15th in Austin, Texas. We spoke with ELI Directors Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz about what participants can look forward to at this year's event. The conference is offered both in-person and online.

In April 2008, the Grateful Dead donated their archive to  the University of California Santa Cruz. The Grateful Dead Archive represents one of the most significant popular culture collections of the 20th century, and documents the band's creative activity and influence from 1965-1995. I spoke with two librarians from UC Santa Cruz who are working extensively on this project: Ginny Steel and Robin Chandler.

The Open Geoportal combines an intuitive, map-based search interface along with traditional text-based metadata search tools for rapid data discovery and for use in teaching, learning, and research. I spoke with Tom Cramer from Stanford University, who has worked extensively on the project.

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress is implementing a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations. In this interview, I talk with Martha Anderson, director of this program, about the complexities and challenges surrounding digital preservation.

William Michener is a professor and director of e-science initiatives for the Univeristy Libraries at the Univeristy of New Mexico. He says that science and academia are entering a new era. In this conversation from the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2011 Meeting, he discusses the five new paradigms he sees in this new direction. Michener also discusses DataOne (Data Observation Network for Earth).