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Skip to content Toggle navigation Home Schedule Registration Area & Accommodations Vendors Host Schools Contact Us UNC CAUSE 2016 October 5th-7th · Winston-Salem, NC Thank You! Thank you to our vendors, our speakers, our volunteers, and everyone who attended UNC CAUSE 2016! We'll see you in Wilmington Oct. 2 - 4 for UNC CAUSE 2017 ! CAUSE 2016 Follow-up & Conference Survey Thank You! Thank you so much for joining us last week for UNC CAUSE 2016! We hope you enjoyed the event and were able to learn new things and meet some new people. As you know CAUSE is an annual event and the team for next year is already making plans. In order to help us make sure we’re doing things right we really need your feedback on this year’s event. As an added incentive, this year we’re giving away one free registration to UNC CAUSE 2017 for someone who completes the conference survey ! Reminders If you’re looking for presentations you should be able to find them (if available) by visiting the session page linked from the Schedule . And if you’re someone who presented, it’s not too late to share slides. Please add them to the session by logging into Sched and using the “Speaker Tools” link. We also need feedback on the sessions. If you haven’t already done so please take a moment to evaluate the sessions you attended. You can do this by using the “Feedback Survey” button on the session page. It’s never too late to start a SIG! The SIG Toolkit and request form are online at https://unccause.org/sigs/ . Start your community today and request your SIG resources. We had a few personal items left behind. If you lost something during the conference, please send email to terrelldf@appstate.edu . That’s it for this year. Thanks again to all our speakers, vendors and attendees. Don’t forget to complete the conference survey ! We hope to see you next year at UNC CAUSE 2017 , October 2-4, 2017 in Wilmington, NC! Posted in Feedback Our Amazing CAUSE 2016 Team We have thanked a lot of people this week but none are more deserving than the team of folks who helped bring you this event. All the CAUSE “staff” are volunteers who have other full-time jobs, so the success of this event represents lots of effort from lots of great people. Thank you so much to the whole team! Mike Vysocka, Social Chair Jason Maners, Program Chair and SIG Ambassador Brian DeConinck, Program Team, Unconference Stephen Swart, Proposal Review Team & Event Volunteer Terri Cook, Proposal Review Team Claudette Fuller, Proposal Review Team Bill Gibson, Proposal Review Team Lamar Battle, Proposal Review Team Tom Dorgan, Proposal Review Team Ginny Sconiers, Proposal Review Team & Event Volunteer Cynthia Bowers, Proposal Review Team Beverly Vagnerini, Proposal Review Team Louise Flinn, Publications Chair Martin Moore, Vendor Chair Harry Nicholos, Vendor Chair Wayne Fee, Vendor Chair Brent Zimmer, Networking Chair Brandon Moore, Networking Chair David Dunn, Networking Team Rick Crowe, Networking Team T.C. Powers, Networking Team Nick Pantelidis, Networking Team Patrick Clark, Networking Team Billy Long, Networking Team Greg James, Networking Team Susan West, Event Volunteer Matthew Long, Event Volunteer Leslie Dare, Event Volunteer Josh Weaver, Co-chair Jen McFarland, Co-chair Posted in General information Tagged staff , thank you Thursday Updates Welcome to Day 2 of UNC CAUSE 2016! We hope the conference has started well for all of you and you are already learning new things, meeting new people, and building relationships with like-minded individuals. Please remember to complete the session feedback survey for each session you attend. Your feedback allows us to continue to improve UNC CAUSE each year. Unconference We had numerous folks sign up for unconference sessions. All of these will be held in the unconference room and have been updated on the online schedule and we’ve included the list below. 8:30am – Staff and Faculty (Re)Training – “Fill in the cracks” 10:30am – Shibboleth 3 and Dealing with Multi-SSO 11:30am – IT Accessibility 1:45pm – Managing Apple Devices Without Touching Them 4:15pm – Project Management Schedule Updates As mentioned yesterday, due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Andrew, there have been several presentations that have been cancelled, resulting in items shifting around. Please check the online schedule for the most up-to-date schedule of sessions. Thursday Evening Social Tonight’s evening social will be held at the Millenium Center beginning at 6:00pm. Please join us for dinner, drinks, music, and dancing! All made possible by our generous vendors. Thank our Vendors, Get Coffee! As mentioned yesterday, please take time to visit our vendors, learn more about what they have to offer your campus and say thanks for their support of this year’s conference. Coffee and water are available in the vendor room all day and all breaks will be held in South Main Hall as well. If you have any questions, please stop by the registration table or contact us via social media or online. Remember to use the hashtag #unccause to tag your posts in social media! Posted in General information Tagged feedback , schedule , social Welcome to UNC CAUSE 2016! We’re here. The moment’s arrived. It’s time for CAUSE 2016, folks! A few items worth mentioning as we kick things off… Registration opens Wednesday at 10:00 am in the foyer (upper level) outside the Vendor room (South Main Hall). Enter via the entrance across the street from Embassy Suites. The Opening Session begins at 1:30 pm in the North Main Hall. The Vendor Area will open at 12 noon on Wednesday. As a reminder, the theme this year is More than a conference and we’re focused on connecting users with special interest groups (SIGs) that they’ll want to continue to be a part of all year long. Be sure to look through the SIGs on the schedule and find one or two you might like to be a part of! Please remember to complete the feedback survey for the sessions and events you attend. You can do this via the online schedule . We appreciate your feedback! Session slides (if available) will be posted in the online schedule . Remind your presenters to share! We’re excited about our evening events and hope to see you there. We’ll be in the Vendor room in Benton Wednesday evening starting at 5:30pm for appetizers and drinks. And join us at 6pm Thursday night for More than a Thursday Night Social at the Millennium Center! As an FYI, meals included with UNC CAUSE registration include: breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Thursday, October 6; breakfast on Friday, October 7. Lunch and dinner are NOT provided on Wednesday, October 5. For more information on parking at the Benton Convention, visit http://www.twincityquarter.com/assets/map-downtown-parking.pdf . If you have any questions, contact CAUSE Planning Team at 828-773-1952. Thanks so much to our Vendors for their outstanding sponsorship; be sure to visit them while you’re here. We also need to thank all our speakers and presenters – we couldn’t do this without you! Posted in Announcements Tagged feedback , vendors Introducing SIGs and the SIG Toolkit It’s CAUSE week! With just 42 hours until the Vendor Room opens and the conference gets rolling, we’d like to share some information about SIGs, the SIGs that will be represented in Winston-Salem, and how to start a new SIG. What’s a SIG? SIG is short for Special Interest Group. These groups are comprised of individuals from UNC CAUSE member institutions that share a common interest around a topic or technology that is prevalent across institutions. Organizing around that interest, SIGs offer us an opportunity to: foster cross institutional relationships provide communication avenues for common topics or technology provide continuity and opportunities for collaboration during the year provide more timely opportunities for working groups provide opportunities for knowledge sharing Each SIG is what its members make of it—whether that’s a robust problem-solving grou...