Comments on: Publishing Platforms and Cross-Campus Cultivation

By: Joss Winn

Joss Winn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:17:14 +0000

Really interesting post and consequently I’ve just spent the last hour learning about what others are doing with WPMU at their universities.

Coincidentally, I started a Google Group a couple of weeks ago for people running WPMU sites in universities and colleges:

http://groups.google.com/group/wordpressmu-in-he

There’s just a few of us from the UK on their now, but it would be good to have others join and share their views and support. There’s plenty of community support for WordPress on the web, but nothing specific to the administration, use and advocacy of it in universities and colleges.

Cheers
Joss

By: Metapizza » Here’s to the Reverend

Metapizza » Here’s to the Reverend — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:23:09 +0000

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By: Reverend

Reverend — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:02:32 +0000

@Mike,

I have a more prolonged comment for you ideas here, so I’ll hold off ’til I have a bit of time to work through them, because your point is an important one I want to address. So like the Terminator, “I’ll be back.”

@Cole,

I have to apologize, I just realized I have trackbacked to those posts about 55 times I guess I liked them, what can I say?

As for ELI, could be a lot of fun, i hope it flies as well. And even if it doesn’t, I look forward to the time to sit down and talk more in depth about this stuff in person, finally. maybe then I won;t feel the need to trackback as much, I imagine my posts where I saw the same thing over and over can get mildly annoying, but it’s all I got!

By: Cole

Cole — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:46:33 +0000

Jim … thanks much for the (continued) shout out! You guys have taken the ball and really run with it. We’re now looking at how we take much of what you are doing at the front end of your blogging environment and integrate it into ours. We do have some new tricks up our sleeves and are so psyched about the emerging possibilities in this space. Faculty and students alike are embracing the platform and are really using it in new and novel ways. Fun to watch!

I am hoping our proposal gets picked up at ELI! I can’t even imagine a Survivalist approach to telling our story … could be an absolute blast!

And, Mike … if you guys do Shib we might be willing to play. Although we do not use WPMU, we use Movable Type as our blogging platform — it is a long (but perhaps good) story.

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Edublogs RUM - Edublogs RUM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:30:12 +0000

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By: Mike Caulfield

Mike Caulfield — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:13:14 +0000

Here’s a question — would any of the people listed there be willing to host some OCW for institutions that aren’t ready to spring into WordPress quite yet? There’s an initiative we have coming up at OCWC that is going to focus on less well-financed institutions, and having a place to go to that has good OCW templates and might allow some branding would be crucial…

This leads into another discussion I’ve been thinking of lately — when institutions like UMW do it so well, does it make sense that we all should struggle with the WPMU upgrade? Or might it make sense to pool resources, and have one institution maintain mediawiki and one wordpress, and one who knows what. That’s right — I’m talking communism! Glass Bees shizzle, ma mizzle.

OK, long day I guess… but point stands, i think?