Digital Resources for GREEN Center Faculty, Staff and Students Alison Brown GREEN Center Manager ASSET II Annual Meeting, August 13, 2012.

Digital Resources for GREEN Center Faculty, Staff and Students

Alison Brown

GREEN Center Manager

ASSET II Annual Meeting, August 13, 2012

GREEN Center for Plasmonic Solar Cells

The new GREEN Center Website

http://www.argreencenter.org

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Resources to publicize the GREEN center and your research group

Each faculty member has their own page on the website with contact information, lab members and group research focus

Publications page

Opportunities page

Quick links to featured researcher, news and calendar sections

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The Arkansas Multi-User Instrument Database

• Listing of all multi-user instruments available in the state• Shows name of instrument, manufacturer, brief explanation, location,

contact name and information• Instruments located at UA, UAFS, UALR, UAPB, UCA, PSC,

ASU, UAM, SAU, HSU, ASMSA• Available to any Arkansas researcher and their out of state

collaborators• Also available to K-12 educators looking for educational materials and

professional development opportunities

http://www.amuidb.org

Equipment listing for UA Example information on J.A. Woollam IR-VASE Spectroscopic Ellipsometer

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GREEN Center SharePoint

• The SharePoint will allow faculty, staff and students to share information quickly and easily

• ‘Shared Documents’ section for updates, publications, conference abstracts

• ‘Calendar’ and ‘Tasks’ to keep track of important upcoming deadlines/events

• Controlled access for higher security

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GREEN Center SharePoint

• Hosted on the University of Arkansas GACL server• Login required for access

• Added security when sharing information• Any non-Fayetteville GREEN participants have been

provided with a UARK username in order to gain access to the SharePoint

‘Shared Documents’• Monthly center updates

• Important events, proposals, publications, awards, etc.

• Publications sorted by year

The Year 2 GREEN Center publications, including journal articles and conference proceedings

Faculty: full access, can upload/update documentsStaff and students: partial access, can read all documents and post in ‘Team Discussion’ but cannot make changes

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GREEN Center Facebook Account

http://www.facebook.com/argreencenter

• One of the busiest websites in the world• Many people already have a facebook, only need to ‘like’ the GREEN Center

in order to have information automatically appear on their newsfeed• Easy to post pictures, short updates, links to other sites for news articles• When someone ‘likes’ the GREEN Center it is visible on their personal page –

automatic publicity to their facebook friends

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GREEN Center Facebook Account

GREEN Center Photo Albums

‘Events’ section – easy way to increase publicity and send out invitations for an event

Timeline

All new updates from center, including:• Events• Photos• Messages• Links to other sites• Tweets

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GREEN Center Twitter Account

The Twitter account allows us to make short, immediate updates. Pictures and videos can also be incorporated into a post. Anyone who ‘follows’ the GREEN Center will see a post in their twitter feed. All tweets are automatically reposted on the facebook page

A tweet including a pictureA tweet containing a video

http://www.twitter.com/argreencenter