Sunny San Diego was the setting for my NACUBO presentation this morning with Brendon Connelly of George Fox University. For the talk entitled “Tools, Tips, and Tricks for Workgroup Productivity, we hit a few key web-2.0 type tools that people from world of student financial services might find cool and useful - mindmaps, screencasts, wikis, and RSS.

Well, you can check it out too, because we did the whole talk from a public wiki. There are lots of links and examples, plus a screencast on how to set up Google Reader, an Ajax-y RSS reader that feels a lot like Gmail.

Here’s the link.

Tools, Tips, and Tricks for Workgroup Productivity

It was great to meet so many folks from the financial side of the university. What resonated with them? For starters — the idea of wikis for helping organize internal policies, and screencasts to help students learn how to complete complex forms.

Wikis and podcasts were highlighted as new media tools being used around Columbia University, at the school’s third biennial conference on new media.

Technorati tags: new media; Columbia University

Librarystuff.com: Talking up more blog and wiki-based presentations.

Micropersuasion: On building out a definition around “advercasting.”

The Tech: An update on MITBlogs (registration required), MIT students and admission officers blogging since September, 2004.

Dickinson College has a network of blogs, many of them aggregated into a single RSS feed. Dickinson also has a wiki featuring information about the college and its programs.