Terra Dotta has a lot to be thankful for during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. We thank all clients and partners for 15 successful years. You fuel our passion for innovation and growth in international education.

The real story is in the evolution that our company has undergone to be able to achieve such extraordinary improvements to the architecture, design, development process and support capacity for our software. The constructive collaboration between Terra Dotta, our clients, and partners, allow us to continually improve the industry-leading software that makes lives easier.

We look forward to many more years of innovation.

Kerry Geffert
Product Evangelist, Terra Dotta

Last month, approximately 700 supporters of international education gathered in Washington, DC, for the second IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad (GSA). With over 740 Commitment Partners from the United States and abroad, there may be few unfamiliar with the effort, but just in case, visit IIE’s website to learn more about the program. Briefly stated, GSA “aims to double the number of American students who study abroad by the end of the decade, and diversify the study abroad population.” (IIE press release, October 1, 2015) At last month’s Summit, attendees were encouraged to think outside the box, to challenge assumptions, be creative and look to the future. There was much to take in and ruminate over; enough for plenty of lunchtime chats, or a monthly article. Here are some of my take-aways.

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Sunny Howe is an Implementation Engineer who started with Terra Dotta in September of 2015. She runs authentication (Shibboleth, CAS, LDAP) & payment gateway projects for Terra Dotta. She builds custom LDAP searches and web services used to gather the information from the client resources to enter into Terra Dotta software.

Sunny began her career as a stockbroker and branch manager of a brokerage firm. She later decided to take some classes in HTML, Java, XML and ColdFusion and accepted an IT position with a web design company. More recently, she worked for the Research arm of the graduate college at UNC Chapel Hill.

Sunny graduated from the University of Toledo with her Bachelor’s degree. She was a member of AIESEC and she received her MBA from Southern California University for Professional Studies in 2007.

Outside of work, Sunny is a member of the Little German Band where she plays the clarinet for area Polka gigs. She also likes remodeling houses. Vacation spots Sunny says she would like to experience are a cruise up the Alaskan Peninsula, a hike to Machu Picchu, and waltzing in Vienna!

Sunny says her favorite part of working at Terra Dotta is “There is so much to learn here. I feel like I have only begun to scratch the surface of the Terra Dotta application and all that goes with it. Everyday presents a new learning opportunity.”

Ever get the feeling that you are floundering in applications, and if you could somehow organize them, you would be better able to deal with them? Sally will first demo how to create a query and how to detect changes in your query's search results through the application of a query watch. The query watch can then react to these changes in a number of different ways to inform and automate some of your processes. Dan will then follow-up with examples of how he uses queries and query watches to accomplish certain things in his office.

NOVEMBER 16 4:00 PM EST

So much to do, in so little time. If you have ever felt this way, then this webinar is for you! During this webinar we will focus on making changes to applications and programs in bulk. Attendees will learn what resources are available and will be able to immediately incorporate the techniques demonstrated into their day-to-day operations. These techniques will save time while performing daily tasks.

NOVEMBER 2 4:00 PM EST

Save time and energy on large-scale tasks by using the data import/export tool. This powerful functionality may seem challenging but by the end of the session, you’ll be a pro! We’ll discuss the in’s and out’s of using this elusive tool through practical demonstrations, both simple and complex. Demonstrations will show the possibilities of exporting TD information for use in other systems, for statistical analysis, and efficiently reviewing and updating existing data. You’ll learn how to prepare data for importing in batch as well as understanding common system errors. The resulting file will serve as a blueprint for the mass import of hundreds of records. At the end of this session, you will be ready to import records for any purpose, from historical data to program details and beyond.

NOVEMBER 16 4:00 PM EST

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