Tom Stone's writing samples

Recent blog posts by Tom Stone for
Ohio State University's
Office of the CIO
Learning Technology group
(published in its Digital Union blog during July 2011):

Going mobile @ OSU
Campus maps, buses, events, BuckID balances and more

Tour OSU Mobile & other campus apps 2goIf there’s something or someone you want to find at Ohio State University while you’re walking around campus with a smartphone, chances are there’s an app for that. As you may have noticed this week on the homepage of the OSU website, there’s a new mobile app …
Read more at the full article.

More apps for going mobile at OSU
Carmen content, news, grades; email your OSUMC doc, make appointments,
get lab results, watch a webinar,
follow football stats and view O-H-I-O photos

Some of the other mobile apps and mobile-friendly websites that have been developed at OSU (or developed elsewhere and used here) are dynamically changing communications for faculty, staff, students and patients of OSU. …
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Why the OSU Mobile app scores a 4.0+ GPA

Tour the OSU Mobile app

I love the new OSU Mobile app. And so do a lot of other people. Of the first 34 customers to review the app in the Apple App Store, all but three gave it a perfect 5-star rating — giving it a 4+ rating overall.
I love it for a lot of reasons: its many helpful …
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Recommendations

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Excerpts:

"Tom is knowledgeable, inquisitive, skilled, and pleasant to work with. If I were a hiring manager, I would welcome Tom to my team.” -- Kate Carey, Otterbein University (formerly director of Ohio Learning Network)

“Tom is passionate about improving the customer's experience. Put simply, Tom is very good at sorting out what works for people and what doesn't. ... always at the forefront of the discussion to discover how these technologies could best be used and which approaches could be sustained across the campus." -- Bryce Bate, Ohio State University, Learning Technology

“While Tom Stone worked on getting faculty to use e-learning tools with the proper pedagogical and androgogical focus at Ohio State University, he was instrumental in helping other colleges and universities become proficient in e-learning as well. Tom brings a high level of professionalism into his work.” -- Tom Goulet, formerly of Ohio Dominican University