HSLS Update

Health Sciences Web Calendar Enhanced Software Launched

The Health Sciences Web Calendar provides members of the health sciences community with a comprehensive listing of news, events, and other helpful information. More than 150 calendar agents enter listings on a daily basis. This information is displayed on the Health Sciences Web Portal at <www.health.pitt.edu>, as well as on many school, department, division, and center Web sites around campus. More than 10,700 listings have been entered since the calendar software was first launched in December 1999.

A new version of the Health Sciences Web Calendar software was released in October 2003. The Web calendar database and the administrative interface were redesigned to provide greater functionality and flexibility in entering events. With a more contemporary look and a more user-friendly interface, the software includes new and value added features such as:

• A printer-friendly version of the event listing, and the capability to email the listing to other interested parties.
• Online memos that can be created and distributed by providing only a URL, instead of a file attachment.
• News items that can be created for display on unit Web sites and/or the health sciences portal.
• The capability to add images, documents and Internet resources to enhance the value of the information provided in the listing.
• An upgraded listing database that allows units to display Web calendar events on their Web pages while entering the information only once.

Please contact Ron Yori at yori@pitt.edu to learn how your unit can use the Web calendar software to add events on the health sciences portal or your unit’s Web site.

--Stephanie Lunsford, Administrator
--Ron Yori, Administrator