Advice to Baruch

Amongst the many things that new media has done it has facilitated collaboration and communication.  Baruch has done a very good job at incorporating new media tools; it uses social networking sites to inform its community, as well as built an infrastructure to support the use of mobile and wireless technologies.  However, there are several new media tools that Baruch College can make use of.

         Blogs are can serve very informational purposes in addition to serve as the grounds for discussions.  Thus, I would suggest the college to create a blog where its community can read, post, make suggestions, and essentially function as a medium for collaboration and idea exchange.  Moreover, the idea of an open source collaboration of sorts is an attractive idea.  The nature of open source collaboration may serve it purpose better for the writing of computer programs; thus, setting up a webpage where Bruch’s community could just that would help bring afloat the diversified talents of the college.  Moreover, such an open source common place will serve as a location where individuals could get access to ideas, build on them, contribute to them, which overall is beneficial to the evolution and innovation of Baruch’s community. 

         In a similar fashion, paralleling collaboration at work, I would also suggest the creation of a Baruch Wiki.  A wiki is a composite of what new media tools and technologies make possible.  Thus, a Wiki would permit any Baruch member to make contributions, edits; much in the same manner we are doing so in our class Wiki.  I believe that such a Wiki could prove to beneficial for not only Baruch member but also those who are not.  This is so because the Wiki will include anything and everything related to Baruch, its culture, academics, ect.  Thus, it will provide information for all those who contribute to it as well as are informed by it.