ACCC is on Facebook

Atlantic Cape Community College just launched their official Facebook Page just a few days ago.  

Some of it's current features are:

• Keep informed of current ACCC news
• Find out about latest events and activities
• View photos (including Professor Tom C. with pink hair)
• Watch videos
• Find other related Facebook Groups and Pages
• Find out who else is a Fan of ACCC

Check it out and become a Fan!

Google Labs

Google Apps does a great job of rolling out new features. However, they also often make some pretty cool features available through their Labs area. The Labs area is easy to get to if you're logged into your Gmail. Just click on the erlenmeyer flask found at the top right of the window.

Then you'll see a listing of all the currently available features available in the Lab.  If there's one you are interested in, just click on the Enable radio.  It's that simple.

My current favorites are:

• Offline - it allows you to use Gmail without online access.  Very useful.
• Canned Responses - automatically have a reply go out if it meets a certain criteria. Great for dealing with forms.
• Google Calendar Gadget - incorporates your Google Calendar in Gmail, very cool.
• and there's many more.

Google Mobile Sync

Google recently released a very cool syncing solution between some of their Google Apps and many mobile phones.  If enabled on your mobile device, it allows for two-way syncing between Google Calendar and Google Contacts.  So your calendar and contacts are always up to date regardless of whether you updated them on your mobile device or via a web browser on your computer.

I synced my calendar up with my iPhone in just a few easy steps.  They also offer instructions for configuring other mobile devices as well.  This is really useful and easy to use, check it out. 

10,000+ Visits

atlantic.edu set a new record for visits in a particular day on January 20th. We had 10,893 visits the first day of the spring semester! We've come close on a few occasions to the 10,000 mark in one day, but that marks the first time we've had that much traffic in one day.

Notable trends for January 20th:

• 10,893 views
• 37,659 page views
• 3:21 average time on site