SUNY Oswego - Alumni Association - October E-Newsletter

October 2010 • Vol 6 No 7

You've Got Mail @oswego.edu

Alumni can now receive or revive an @oswego.edu e-mail address — and get a whole lot more.

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Campus Technology Services recently introduced LakerApps, a suite of services from Google that includes e-mail, calendar, document, chat and other cloud computing functions. Alumni will be able to get the same service as college employees and current students, including seven gigabytes of storage, according to Chief Technology Officer Joseph Moreau.

“Keeping oswego.edu e-mail addresses after graduation has long been a request of our graduates,” Oswego Alumni Association Executive Director Betsy Oberst said. “This is another valuable service we can offer our alumni and a great way to keep them connected with the college.”

A special agreement between Google and SUNY made way for the e-mail service upgrade. Moreau explained that Google offers more services and greater capacity for e-mail accounts than the previous system.

“In the past, when someone left or graduated, that account remained active for 13 months and then we would recycle the account,” Moreau said. Google’s robustness makes the recycling unnecessary.

The class of 2010 is the first to keep their oswego.edu e-mail addresses permanently, but alumni of all eras are invited to get a free LakerApps account.

To get started, contact the Oswego Alumni Association at alumni@oswego.edu or call 315-312-2258.

— Shane M. Liebler

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Who doesn’t want to save the world? Michael Kite ’02 does that for a living through World Wildlife Fund.

As marketing specialist for one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, Kite and his team of three work to raise more than $5 million each year. The majority of that money comes from licensing partnerships and promotions with the likes of Barnes & Noble, Gap, Hewlett-Packard, Dial and Coinstar.

Retail partnerships help WWF spread its message to the general public and raise funds for its conservation work around the globe. For example, Bank of America contributes $100 for every special Visa account opened and Nabisco is supporting WWF’s “Year of the Tiger” initiative with special packaging and a $100,000 donation. The new CVS Green Bag Tag program rewards reusable bag-toting customers, and generates five cents for WWF for each tag sold.

All support WWF’s mission of protecting the future of nature, down to the finest details, Kite said.

“We like to see that the product is made from recycled material and is recyclable itself, and somehow ties into our mission,” Kite said. The Green Bag Tag, for instance, is made from a corn-based material and features a 100 percent recycled silicone lanyard.

As a broadcasting major at Oswego, Kite got involved with WRVO-FM and WNYO-FM.

“I think it gave me a lot more confidence in talking to people,” he said. It was an important part of his early career in broadcast sales and remains an important piece in the message he “sells” today.

“The best part of my job is seeing a product in the store with the WWF logo after months of working with a company to launch it,” said Kite, who joined the organization in 2006. “It’s rewarding to give people a fun, unique way to protect our planet.”

— Shane M. Liebler