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The D’Arcy Norman Effect

Posted on October 30, 2007 by

From Alex Ragone’s post Not Drupal, WordPress MU (emphasis mine): So a few weeks ago I blogged about the Drupal installation I was going to create. I had a plan and began to implement it. I had installed Drupal in … Continue reading →

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Faculty websites made easy

Posted on October 24, 2007 by

Thanks to Cathy Derecki design and PHP skills we are currently experimenting with the possibilities of using WPMu to great their own website/blog with relative ease. As of right now, faculty and staff have a public folder as a part … Continue reading →

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WPMu Tutorials (Week 2)

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

This one’s a little late, and fortunately I didn’t have to do much work to bring the following resource to you. Keeping in line with a philosophy that Scott, D’Arcy, and Brian were promoting at Open Ed 2007, why create … Continue reading →

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Universities using WPMu

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

Mario A. Núñez Molina did some research on Universities that are using WordPress Multi-User in this post. There are at least ten colleges and universities on that list that I wasn’t aware of before reading the post. Something that is … Continue reading →

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Creating a dynamic frontpage for WPMu

Posted on October 5, 2007 by

For anyone interested in the dynamic homepage of UMW Blogs, this post may be of some interest… Part of what I started thinking about when working on UMW Blogs this Summer was how to capture some of the activity going … Continue reading →

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WPMu Plugins: Comment Tracking and Stats

Posted on September 22, 2007 by

I have been experimenting with yet a few more possibilities on our WordPress Multi-User installation at UMW Blogs. One of which I am particularly excited about, so I’ll start there. WPMu Comment Tracking and Display This plugin (available on WPMUDEV.org) … Continue reading →

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WPMu plugin patrol

Posted on September 10, 2007 by

While doing a quick sweep for WordPress Multi-User plugins on WPMuDev.org I came across two plugins that make me all the more certain that WordPress is without question the premiere open-source online publishing platform freely available to everyone. “More Privacy … Continue reading →

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UMW Lablogs: Aggregating Online Laboratory Experiments

Posted on September 6, 2007 by

One of the biggest experiments happening currently on UMW Blogs is Steve Gallik’s Cell Biology Lablogs. Steve is a pretty amazing guy, he has built out an entire suite of online laboratory resources wherein students can record the results of … Continue reading →

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WP-O-Matic 1.0 released

Posted on September 2, 2007 by

WP-O-Matic 1.0 has been released today and what a fine day it is for the aggregated auto-blogging world! You can download it here. Guilliermo Rauch, the 16 year-old wunderkind from Argentina, has delivered an unbelievable tool for WordPress and (YES … Continue reading →

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Homework: Italia 201

Posted on August 31, 2007 by

So I have literally taken my work home with me this evening. Antonella (my special lady friend) is teaching two Italian courses at UMW this semester, and we have been sparring about the whole UMW Blogs thing and how it … Continue reading →

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