Test post

The category will throw you off. This is a test post for my feed reader to make sure it can seamlessly integrate blog press reports with the built-in system.

More in ACT

Ok, so the transition to ACT 2008 has gone fairly well, but there’s more to do – specifically, I need to figure out the weird and wacky world of multiple email addresses.

Old ACT let you put multiple emails into an email field.  New ACT does not.  So I had to create additional email fields, but now I need to go back and find all the records that used multiple emails and get a report or something so the extra emails can be easily added to the new ACT records.

Hopefully not a big hassle, but it’s on the list.

More with RSS

One ongoing thing I’ve wanted to do for a while is to create the ability for Peter Winicov to update the WEP press appearances area via a normal blog instead of my own wonky press interface, and then simply consume the blog feed for our info page.  I think I have this working (amusingly, the dev version parses this blog).

I’ll work with Peter to get him set up on WordPress when he gets back from vacation, with the understanding that eventually the blog may move to a Wharton-provided blogging server.

YouTube

To go with our push to FaceBook, we’re also on YouTube now. Wharton itself is looking for a more unified overall approach to that, so we’re not building a big presence, but to provide video for a post on the Wall Street Journal blog, we posted it on YouTube. Here’s the WSJ link with the embedded video.

http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/

Or, actually…. heck, I want it linked more. Here’s the direct embedded video.

BPC NY

The Wharton Alumni club of New York is planning to hold its own Business Plan Competition later this year, and like we did for the Knowledge@Wharton India Launch contest and for PennVention here at the Weiss Tech House at Penn, we’re sharing our home-grown BPC application.

For now, this is almost done- I just need to package it up with some documentation, clean out any passwords in the code (done), and ship the zip to the techie who will be hosting things on that side. Hopefully they have enough local ASP.NET know-how to run with it (PennVention certainly did; the India thing was hosted here).

(I wanna test the more thing…)

Facebook, anyone?

This is still kind of a low-priority investigative task, but we’re looking at apps that use the Facebook API and trying to find ways to leverage that giant social networking tool to help us with reaching alumni and building community.