Archive for the 'Email, Calendering, and Collaboration Tools project' Category

Eudora Migration Continues

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

EUDORA MIGRATION CONTINUES
During the summer over 170 faculty and staff members have transitioned from Eudora to another email client. Thunderbird is the most popular email client selected. Beginning in October, ITS will be scheduling a time to migrate current Eudora users.
We understand that changing e-mail software can be inconvenient so please consider the following [...]

Office 2007 Line spacing tip

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Members of the Swarthmore community have shared valuable feedback about ITS’ Microsoft Office 2007 implementation as noted in this blog from our colleague, Cathy.
During a recent overview session, we discussed line spacing options and modifications.
By default, Microsoft Word 2007 applies a line space of 1.5, however, our colleague, Cathy found that we can reduce the [...]

Thunderbird Overview Sessions

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Join us on Thursdays to learn about Swarthmore’s new email system, Thunderbird. ITS will offer Thunderbird Overview sessions for our PC and Mac users. We will alternate each week, for example, the first session on June 19th will focus on Thunderbird on PCs, the following session will focus on Thunderbird on Macs. We look forward [...]

ITS Recommends Thunderbird to Eudora users

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

After a period of testing and review, ITS staff are pleased to recommend Mozilla’s Thunderbird to current users of Eudora. Among the available choices, we found that both Macintosh and Windows users were most likely to experience a smooth transition from Eudora when migrating to Thunderbird.
Of the two most critical features highlighted in feedback from [...]

Migrating from Eudora - Frequently asked questions

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Contents

What do I have to do with my existing mail folders?
Will I lose anything in the conversion?
Where will my attachments go?
Why do I need to move from POP to IMAP? What’s involved with that?
May I choose to move to an email application other than Thunderbird?

What do I have to do with my existing mail folders?
You’re [...]

Kicking off the Email, Calendering, and Collabortion Tools project

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

As Gayle Barton recently announced, ITS will be working on a project this year to update the tools we use for email. Because of the way that email programs have evolved, the project will also present us with the opportunity to look at a number of other collaboration tools, such as calendaring and document sharing.
In [...]