It’s dif­fi­cult for me to believe that we just fin­ished week 6 at RIT. This has been the most intense quar­ter yet. In part that’s because it’s my last. Teach­ing one class for only the second time has con­tributed as well. But most of that time has been taken up trying to come up with ways to bring sus­tain­able change to the School of Print.

Coming up with ideas has not been hard. It’s the doing and nur­tur­ing parts that take all the time.

One effort we’ve under­taken is to start a blog for the School. SPMEtcetera soft-launched ear­lier in the quar­ter. Our hope is to create a des­ti­na­tion where the indus­try, alumni, and prospec­tive and cur­rent stu­dents can dis­cover all the neat things that are going on at SPM. The great part, from a sus­tain­abil­ity per­spec­tive, is that all the writ­ing is being done by stu­dent employ­ees. We’ll make an offi­cial announce­ment about the blog later this week.

The other big project is the Open Pub­lish­ing Lab. There will be a lot more about that soon. The good news is that over two years of plan­ning will (hope­fully) be coming to fruition in less than 14 days. We just need our teams to make it to May 3 and the inno­va­tion fes­ti­val and then we’ll have a lot to talk about and show.

Sorry about that every­one. Some­times I’m such a noob.

In my e-mail que this morn­ing was an invite to reunion.com. It had been sent to me by an busi­ness asso­ciate. Being the Social Net­work­ing patsy that I am, I decided to go through the join­ing process. After reg­is­ter­ing, and avoid­ing the pay-​to-​play options, the web­site vol­un­teered to search through it’s member data­base to see if any of my friends were already mem­bers. All I had to do was let it look at my g-mail address list. This seemed like a good idea at the time to my sleepy brain.

*sigh*

I unfor­tu­nately missed this little clause:

We’ll find your friends and family who are already mem­bers and also auto­mat­i­cally invite any non-​members to join (it’s free!).

I just failed the internet.

I also have a feel­ing that this “helpful feature” is going to create a lot of prob­lems for reunion.com.

Update: as I expected the e-mails are begin­ning to flow into my inbox from folks who received the spam…