The USF Live Directory is a place to find up-to-date information about the faculty and staff of the University of San Francisco. It is kept up-to-date by USF community members who post articles and associate them with people-- no web designer needed! The resulting collection of articles provides a people-centric search of USF's subset of the web.

Faculty and staff can post articles about themselves and if they choose allow the Dean's staff and others post as well.

Here's how you can contribute to the Live Directory:

• Update your own profile – your homepage, image, and basic info.
• Post articles, videos, podcasts, and accomplishments about yourself or your colleagues.
• Create research and interdisciplinary topic collections and post articles on the topic.
• Keep up-to-date on what's going on with a particular department or interdisciplinary group.
• Search USF's subset of the web to find people and articles

With a single click you can bookmark a research paper or news article and specify its author and the people who it references. The article then automatically appears on each person's profile as well as all of their collections and the "recent news" page.

Here are some of the benefits to the university:

• Dynamic web presence

The great people and accomplishments of our university can be promoted better. An improved web presence will help with alums and potential donors as well as prospective students.

• Better media relations

Members of the media can find "experts" through the site directly. Deans and other administrators can use the site to better connect media with faculty/staff.

• Improved collaboration

The Live Directory is a shared space for the community. It’s a place to create interdisciplinary groups. It’s a place to find colleagues and potential research collaborators through search and associative discovery.

• Retention of Institutional Memory

Often our deans will send out emails about accomplishments in their school. Unfortunately, only some of the great accomplishments are sent out, and those sent are lost in the “email cloud” and not recorded for posterity on the USF web site. With Personos, the Dean and others can post articles in the shared space, and we can all benefit from a more permanent record of the community’s great accomplishments.

• Improved alumni relations

The Live Directory can be used to publicize the achievements of USF alumni, and to engage alumni with the University. Some amazing people have graduated from USF—we should let the world know!