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[karmann]

Please let me know if this has been covered before (search function is not my friend) but from the "regaining control" thread it looks like at least a few forumites (myself included) are working on electronic tenure portfolios now.  It's an option at my school, and only one other faculty member has taken it (she did hers as a website, while I'm doing a PDF) so I don't have many examples to follow.

Have any of you evaluated electronic files?  Anything you especially liked or hated?  I'm in the arts, so mine will have multimedia elements (another reason to eschew the traditional binder).  My biggest fear right now is compatibility (I used a PDF teaching portfolio when on the job market, and one school--which specifically caters to the technology side of my field--requested plain text because their acrobat reader was roughly ten years old and they didn't want to upgrade).

[pembleton]

As someone who had to compile an electronic file last year, I'd be worried about compatibility too.
Keep in mind - not all of the folks reading your packet are going to be electronically savvy.
One of the more venerable members of the University Rank and Tenure committee asked me questions not based on reading the file - but on googlestalking me.
Good luck!