Joseph DeVore's Blog

I'm pretty excited to speak at, The Higher Education Data Warehousing Forum (HEDW) about being one of three agencies in America to accomplish ARRA Federal Reporting using automated XML vs. Excel Spreadsheets.

HEDW is a network of higher education colleagues dedicated to promoting the sharing of knowledge and best practices regarding knowledge management in colleges and universities, including building data warehouses, developing institutional reporting strategies, and providing decision support.

The Forum meets once a year and sponsors a series of listservs to promote communication among technical developers and administrators of data access and reporting systems, data custodians, institutional researchers, and consumers of data representing a variety of internal university audiences.

There are approximately 675 active members in HEDW, representing professionals from 350 institutions found in 20 different countries and 43 different states.

At one point in my life, I was an inspiring designer. I mostly focused on bag design, like backpacks, wallets, purses, stash bags, snowboarding clothes, etc. Since the early 90's I've been lugging around my fabrics, findings, zippers, buckles, patterns, you name it! As well as all of the industrial sewing machines and tables...

I've recently decided to sell a lot of my fabrics and foam. I started up a new Etsy site so that I can offer this stuff to other DIY'ers.

Check out my stuff at: http://urbanlanguage.etsy.com

There isn't much there yet, but there soon will be~ -JD