BuddyPress and closed community membership

So I’ve been struggling with how to manage our varied user groups when it comes to initial site population and long-term registration rules. In English, all of our current faculty, staff, students and very recent alumni have @saumag email addresses, so using the built-in WPMU registration restriction based on email domain capability is perfect for [...]

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 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 [...]