OIT has released a new service called UMSurvey based on the Open Source software LimeWire. This tool can be used by current students, staff, and faculty of the U to conduct surveys with internal and external recipients. The service is free and simply requires and x500 ID to create a survey. To get started using UMSurvey please visit http://www.oit.umn.edu/umsurvey/. The documentation for LimeWire can be found here http://wiki.limewire.org/index.php?title=User_Guide.

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The University Office of Information Technology will be altering the University's email policies to be more consistent with the new Gmail policies. The new policies will go into effect on August 17th, 2009.

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Ever get a voice mail while you've been out of the office for a few days, and wish you would have known about it before your return? You can! The University's voice mail system allows you to setup a notification to be sent to your email address or text your phone when someone leaves you a message on your University voice mail. You can also have the entire voice mail message sent to your email account.

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This is a new beginning in how the Humphrey Institute Information Technology Service disseminates information.

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