To my new social media student worker, a to-do list.

December 3, 2009 By

This is the message I just sent my brand new social media student worker. I’ve given him some time to get used to the office, read some great social media resources, watch useful videos and talk theory with me while getting to know the personality style we use here. Now, time for him to get [...]

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There and Back Again, a geek girls tale of #heweb09

October 9, 2009 By

HighEdWeb 2009 just wrapped up as a resounding (overall) success. It’s to my increasing satisfaction that this conference gets better and better every year. We’re setting the bar for mix of content and social interaction that, from what I’ve seen and heard from attendees, isn’t really matched anywhere else. The winning mix of great presentations, [...]

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BuddyPress and closed community membership

April 26, 2009 By

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 [...]

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Open source & social media as online education support tools

March 17, 2009 By

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. [...]

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meh.

October 25, 2007 By

That’s it, no big post today. I’m still sick with some fun chesty/throaty goodness, Woot.com is having a Woot-Off today but they keep sticking poo in there and slowing the whole thing down, I’ve discovered claimID recently and been playing with that when I should be writing my history paper (the one that was due [...]

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