PS: Thanks for making us think hard…it hurts so good!
hb

I can’t think of any resources offhand, but I’ll keep looking, I heard Drupal is one hell of a CMS though, and even pretends to blogging sometimes.

@Humble Beginner:

I bow in awe in the face of your wealth of knowledge and expertise.

It is quotes like this that will win you great favor on the bava. In fact, I am now your humble vassal and your wish is my command

To start with WordPress I would head over to WordPress.com and start a blog up and play around. You can also use the wonderful edublogs.org. And if you have faculty who are interested, send them there and show them what.

Now, if you want to make it more university official, Then see if your IT department will install a single WP for you to see how you can load themes, plugins etc. (I would load the OneClick install plugin so you can do this all from Firefox). After that, I would play around with it and have fun. Soon after see if they’ll install a WPMu install so that you can have faculty sign up for their own blog easily.

Alternatively, if your IT department has not the time and/or the inclination to do this for you, see if you can get your own account on Bluehost (or some other hosting service) and buy a domain, and use Fantastico to install WP and play with it. And you can also install blogs for a series of other cohort faculty and allow them to play.

In fact, your comment is leading me to a larger post, how to get up and running easily with WP in education, this would make a useful series of post. So stay tune

@Alan:

You know I know you weren’t really hiding from the bava, you own the bava, and I was just creating that good old drama that makes it all fun. The wpeducation tag? Why didn’t you just say so I totally missed that in the post, and besides, as much as I love delicious as a space to save and store my links, it is very sterile and impersonal when I’m taking about things I really love.

@fcom

Wow, that is one hell of a blog, I love the big Google marker in a real street. Art blogs are by far the coolest.

Twas not fear but mystery in the bowels of WP=Spam-Free plugin, which borked in excessive URLs. I can sort fo see how you dont want to give a spammer feedback like, “if you put 10 fewer URLs in you will make the cut”, but I am not happy with the logic. Having my WP moderation queue set to approve posts from someone I have let in before, that should over-ride a link count test.

Regardless, thanks for laying them on my, and of course UMW blogs are going to be heavily featured.

FYI- you dont have to dump links in my comment feed! Just tag ‘em in delicious as

wpeducation

and I shall have them.

Your loyal dog… CDB

PS- why dont people tag much? I am long puzzled, a lonely tagger…

PPS- @Bill Fitzgerald- WordPress is kind of like that drupal thing, but it is actually comprehensible by mortal humans, and a scad more elegant

This Wordpress thing you describe sounds interesting. Could you point me to some links that could give me an overview of what you can do with it?

Thanks — hope your summer’s going well

Cheers,

Bill