Our Featured Product: Scribo

Introducing Scribo! An easy-to-use web publishing tool from
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What can I use this for? Here are a handful of uses, but there are many more needs out there. Here´s the bottom line: if you need to get your content out on the web, and you can´t be bothered writing code or learning how to use a complicated tool set, Scribo is pretty darned easy.
Newsletters Create an electronic version of your printed newsletters. If your group has a variety of newsletters, you can even create a virtual newsstand! View demo	Event Planning Event promotion made easy. Use scribo to evangelize all of the exciting happenings in your group. Speaker bios, dates/times/locations. View demo
Project Updates Have a team working on a project together? Tighten communications, input and feedback cycles around objectives, priorities, milestones, etc. View demo	Research Foster your research by soliciting feedback and knowledge sharing within your team, the HU community, or peers and colleagues across the globe. View demo

Budget Office recommendations
"Eliminate printing documents / periodicals / year-end reports that can be distributed electronically." "Eliminate paper mailings where possible – migrate toward online options."

Gartner Research:
"Collaboration technologies are poised to enable organizations to link thoughts with thinkers and research with researchers in ways that can develop new and better ideas more quickly, as well as drive the effectiveness of research and development activities."

IT-Based Collaboration and Social Networks Accelerate R&D, 22 January 2008

Pres Faust Callout:
"Every member of the Harvard community has a role to play in reducing our GHG emissions - by conserving energy ourselves, by motivating others to do so, and by envisioning and implementing new ideas that will contribute to our progress."

Statement on the Report of the Harvard Greenhouse Gas Task Force: Cambridge, Mass.July 8, 2008

What is Scribo?

A solution in response to budget constraints, continued calls for efficiency and collaborative tools, and President Faust's call for greener alternatives.

 

Leveraging the latest in blog technology, Scribo is a remarkably simple and intuitive electronic publishing and collaboration platform, designed for the non-technical user.

 

So what's with the funny name?

We used the Latin for "I write, I compose" to help illustrate how easy this is; you write, it's online. There are virtually unlimited ways to leverage the features in Scribo, with a few of the most common being online newsletters, event planning, project updates, and research coordination.