Welcome, Old Blogger Moves to a New Forum

Posted by Dr. Rob Rennie Tue, September 28, 2010 12:19 pm EDT

For those of you who don’t know me, I am Dr. Rob Rennie, the college’s VP, Technology and CIO (chief information officer).

A chief information officer is the person responsible for information, and related, technologies in an enterprise. At the college, this includes all academic, student, faculty, staff, and administrative computing as well as digital media productions, telecommunications, networks, data reporting, systems administration, security, software development, strategic planning, data center and network operations and ensuring the college ‘s technology creates maximum value. The goal is to leverage technology for efficiency and to provide the best possible experience for the college community.

A few weeks ago the College’s strategic communications team rolled out its new communications network web, a site dedicated to sharing all things Florida State College at Jacksonville with the world. As part of this effort I was asked to move my long-running, but somewhat closed audience, technology blog to the larger and wide open college site. At first I was very reluctant to agree.

I occasionally rant on technology misadventures, which may be fun, but not right for this forum, my blog topics have typically been such that a small band of dedicated technologists would be the only folks remotely interested, and they might just be feigning interest at that. But after a bit of cajoling and some further thought, I decided to move the topics up a notch and use the blog as an opportunity to share things that may actually be of some interest to everyday folks as well as the confirmed geeks with whom I spend the majority of my time.

I am absolutely blessed to have spent the last 33 years working in, what I believe to be, the most exciting industry of our time, information technology, or IT as it is commonly called. In this blog I will do my best to share what IT is all about, the big trends, what is happening in IT around the world, how those things affect us all, what I have learned from my experiences, a bit about working in technology-related careers, and what all of this means to the college.

My hope is to make the blog a fun and easy read that provides insight into technology and the college.