LDN - Luminis Developer Network

The official title was: New England Colleges and Universities - Developing the Business Case for a Digital Campus Portal

Yesterday, June 9th, SCT put on a small conference hosted by Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.  There were 4 presentations by existing Luminis clients to a room of clients who are considering or planning implementation of Luminis.  Overall this was a fun event and an opportunity to talk to some other schools and get a feel for the sorts of things they are looking to accomplish with Luminis.

The presenters were:

"Luminis - Integrate It All"
Northeastern University - http://myneu.neu.edu/
Kevin Leggett and Maura Boyd

Apparently they have given this presentation numerous times including at Summit.  Maura is a CPIP guru.  They have integrated may external apps through CPIP.  The biggy there is that they are a IBM shop and have suite of CPIP'd apps including Lotus Domino, IBm WebSphere, etc.

"Upgrading from Campus Pipeline to SCT Luminis"
Wentworth Institure of Technology - https://lconnect.wit.edu
Maureen Crawford-Hentz

Maureen is a non-technical user from career services with extreme excitement about the Luminis platform.  She is a content editor and contributor who strongly encouraged all schools implementing the platform to get non-techies involved early on.  Ownership of the content encourages her and her staff to continually keep content fresh and updated.  One real gem of wisdom I took from her is to find out who on campus is making and putting up posters all over campus.  If you can harnass those people to generate portal content their excitement can translate to fresh new content that is in touch with students.

"Keeping myPlymouth Exciting" or "Maing it Strategic"
Plymouth State University - http://my.plymouth.edu
Ken Kochien and Zach Tirrell

Our presentation convered our inclusion of alumni in our portal as the permanent consitituent fo the campus. We also gave overview of the exciting things we are doing technically with YaleCAS, LDI, and leveraging the underlying UPortal infrastructure.  I then also spent time giving on overview of the benefits of this community site (no surprise there).  Presentation is attached if you want to see the slides.

"Possibilities Achieved - Unifying Campus Community and Services"
North Shore Community College - http://pipeline.northshore.edu
Gary Ham and Jan Forsstrom

This presentation was also a fairly polished, at least, second showing.  North Shore has a very solid Luminis implementation.  They are leveraging the whole scope of services provided Luminis, as well as integrating mant/all on campus services in a fairly seemless fashion.