Bob Gribben

#WorkLife Projects Galore!

It’s been a busy few weeks in the Office of the Chief Information Officer! So many projects have been completed or are in progress, just in time for #new2osu students showing up this weekend!

  • Self Service Home Page NEWIn case you haven’t been blinded by the shiny new Service Catalog yet, be sure to check it out! The Self Service site and catalog of OCIO services has been totally revamped to better fit with OSU branding standards, and in the process, we’ve made it much more user-friendly…and frankly, prettier!
  • Ohio State AppThe official Ohio State app has been improving as well! The (formerly OSU Mobile) app has tons of new features, including Carmen grades, Student Evaluations of Instruction (SEIs), parking garage capacity information, advising notes and *gasp* your statement of account (AKA how much money you owe the university). You can even search the entire course catalog on the go! (We know you love looking for sweet classes!) As always, the app is free–download it from your app store today!
  • Bob Gribben Password Tips Video ScreenshotNext week, we’re also announcing a change to the password policy…drum roll please…you will be required to change your password every 180 days instead of every 90! Students will hopefully rejoice knowing they can keep their passwords twice as long. In case they don’t, Bob Gribben will be serving up some useful tips for creating unique passwords!

That’s everything for now! Stay tuned as the autumn semester gets rolling…

Bob Gribben, YouTube Star

In the Office of the CIO, we’ve been developing an ongoing video series starring the one-and-only Bob Gribben, that password change guy.

We noticed all the hateful things students were saying about him on Twitter and decided to borrow Jimmy Kimmel’s “mean tweets” sketch format for the first video:

The popularity of this video encouraged us to continue with the series. 90 days later, Bob Gribben reminded students that hackers don’t take a holiday:

This time, however, Bob really wanted to get students involved.

I’ve been following students on Twitter, finding those willing to act and working with them to film their segments. Bob was his goofy self when filming as well!

The final product should be released in the very near future; we are just finishing up the captions (YouTube had no clue what Bob was saying…)

Be on the lookout for “Students Tweet at BobbyGribbs”!

For now, enjoy the extended footage from this video project: BuckeyeBar Bloopers