Faculty blogging

Before I launch full-steam into the BuddyPress socNet project I’m putting together some relevant research to support various features. One thing I’m trying to learn is how many institutions offer faculty and staff a blogging vehicle within the confines of University provided services. To that end, here’s my quick poll on LinkedIn. I appreciate all [...]

Open source & social media as online education support tools

So I’ve gone into my WPMU project a little and briefly mentioned the BuddyPress university community site currently in process. Now I’d like to touch upon how these projects plus existing social media tools can be used to support online education initiatives at my university. Today, we’re really just scratching the surface of online/distance education. [...]

WPMU as higher ed CMS, part 2

So I’m going to talk a little more about the overall plan, expected plugin use, and managing some of the known hurdles. The homepage: In the last post, I mentioned my homepage issue. The current homepage is housed at www on a Windows box. I currently expect I’ll do a permanent redirect to the default [...]

WPMU for higher ed CMS

I’m working on 2 simultaneous project using WPMU. One is a BuddyPress implementation for the “university community” project. The other is using WPMU as CMS for an entire institution. This is what I’m going to briefly address here… I’ll also be documenting the process along the way. Where we were: When I took over 4 [...]

Lightening round…

HighEdWeb 2008 was amazing. I’m glad it’s been podcast or I’d be in trouble since I was running around like a crazy person pretty much the whole time. Met some really wonderful people…shout out to my peeps. WP update I just updated to WP 2.6.2. Been using it at work since release, but I tend [...]