Ajay Chahar '12 now has company online.

The first-year student has been keeping everyone updated about campus happenings through Twitter, a micro-blogging service.

Chahar will still use that platform for now, but his brief posts and those of other Colgate students and staff members also will be presented on a Twitter-like blog called ''gatetwitter.

A program launched and supported by Information Technology Services helped four faculty members undertake projects with technology twists this past academic year.

The goal of the Technology Innovation Fund, which allocated $20,000 in grants, is to help professors explore emerging technologies and their potential for enhancing teaching and research, according to David Baird, director of academic technologies for ITS.