Ben Whetstone

  • How to Avoid ZoomBombing

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    Update as of 3/30/2020 As of March 26th the screen sharing settings within your Zoom account have automatically defaulted to “Only Host.” This setting gives hosts sole permission to share content within their meetings by default. This effectively ends the ZoomBombing threat. If you’d like to give participants screen sharing permission, simply click the arrow to the…

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  • Important Adobe Licensing Changes

    As of February 14, 2020, the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences will no longer participate in the University System’s Adobe licensing agreement. This article describes several options available to you.

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  • AEM: Summer Downtime Event for CAES Website

    For the two weeks prior to the update (July 18-Aug. 3), content managers will not have access to AEM. And while the updates that will be made to our sites are not nearly as complex as when we moved from Contribute to Adobe Experience Manager in 2015, there are some steps that you should complete…

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  • On the morning of January 31, the CAES Faculty and Staff Intranet website, which houses internal documents intended for CAES faculty and staff, will receive a major update. Most links and pages will change substantially. What you need to know is outlined below. What you need to know Login is required – Log in with a UGA MyID is required. If you have trouble…

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  • County Website – Updated Design!

    For those of you managing UGA Extension county websites in AEM: We have been working on a slight redesign of our main UGA Extension website that will go live on July 21. This project has provided us with the opportunity to tweak our county website design to fix some problems and to better align it…

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  • Adobe Contribute Roadmap

    Adobe Contribute

    The CAES Office of Information Technology has already transitioned many sites, including our county websites, into other CMS platforms and will start moving our remaining Contribute sites on a case-by-case basis over the next few months.

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  • How to use Google search more efficiently

    Many of us rely on bookmarks to the sites we use most often. What happens when the bookmark disappears, or when you never had a bookmark in the first place? Google search! Here are a few tricks that can make Google searches even more productive.

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