Category Archives: umw.edu

Syndicated Personal Portfolios: The Case of Stephen J. Farnsworth

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve still yet to write a manifesto about how awesome the Domain of One’s Own faculty initiative was in some many ways, but the problem is there’s far more than a mouthful of awesome. So, I am trying to deal … Continue reading →

Posted in Domain of One's Own, publishing, rss, tags, umw, umw.edu | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Syndicate This: a Practical Dream Vision of Syndication for UMW’s Website

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve written extensively about the importance of syndication to framing a community for a long time on this blog. In fact, recently I’ve even shied away from writing about it because I feel I’ve beaten that horse to death. Nonetheless, … Continue reading →

Posted in rss, tags, umw.edu | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Rosie the Riveter dot umw dot edu

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Reverend

So, it’s been over a year since UMW has had it’s main .edu website running on WordPress. DTLT has been experimenting with the possibilities of aggregating posts from UMW Blogs into umw.edu (in fact, this post will aggregate into DTLT’s … Continue reading →

Posted in UMW Blogs, umw.edu | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The State of Aggregation at UMW

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Reverend

I’m usually not a whiteboard image blogger, but we’ve been going through some structural work at UMW with various projects and we are having to map things out more and more.  One of the things we’ve been working on with … Continue reading →

Posted in Domain of One's Own, umw, umw.edu, WordPress | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

UMW’s Website Showcased by WordPress

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Reverend

I just discovered that UMW’s website is showcased on WordPress.org. UMW has been running WordPress for it’s entire website for almost a year now, and it’s pretty sweet and Cathy Derecki and Curtiss Grymala deserve all the credit. To get … Continue reading →

Posted in umw, umw.edu, WordPress | Tagged , | 4 Comments

UMW’s Website Poised to become Syndication Hub, and by Extension Relevant

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Reverend

More than a week ago Cathy Derecki and Curtiss Grymala took me through some of the work they have been doing on umw.edu—which has been a multi-network WordPress install for almost a year now. The ideas here build upon this … Continue reading →

Posted in umw, UMW Blogs, umw.edu | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Aggregating straight to UMW.EDU from bavatuesdays

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Reverend

The great Cathy Derecki gave us the ability to syndicate into umw.edu using FeedWordPress a while ago, I just haven’t played with it until tonight 🙂 And let me tell you, it’s pretty rad to have a department site on … Continue reading →

Posted in umw, umw.edu | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Longwood Blogs Moves Out!

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Reverend

Almost four years ago I experimented with what up and until then was pretty much the coolest thing I had done in edtech (pre-ds106, mind you 🙂 )—though no one else really noticed save the great Brian Lamb. In less … Continue reading →

Posted in umw, UMW Blogs, umw.edu, WordPress | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

A Bird’s-Eye View of UMW

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Reverend

A year and a half ago Cathy Derecki and I sat down to talk about possibilities for taking the semi-annual “Faculty Notes”—UMW’s print-version of what faculty have been doing professionally—online. The idea we came up with was to make an … Continue reading →

Posted in umw, UMW Blogs, umw.edu, WordPress | 1 Comment

Get a job hippie! Part Duex: WordPress Developer Wanted

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Reverend

Remember this? Image credit: Hippies de Valdivia (Chile) by leo.prie.to After the last time I did a post like this I ended up regretting it, that position was never filled, and I had to ultimately eat some blog crow—and I … Continue reading →

Posted in umw, umw.edu, WordPress | Tagged , , | 11 Comments