Monthly Archives: November 2009

A WordPress Plugin App Store: Commodify and die!

Posted on 13 Nov ’09 by Reverend

Well, James Farmer and company are at it again, and the latest business venture is a WordPress Plugin App store a la iPhone apps. Another pay to play solution that is asserts that “the future of WordPress is premium plugins.” This development, like most of Farmer’s moves over the last year or so with wp.mu, […] Continue reading →

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Twitter on Campus

Posted on 6 Nov ’09 by Reverend

North Carolina State University has really made an impressive case for using Twitter more extensively on campus.  A wide range of departments, organizations, and clubs at NCSU are using Twitter to get announcements, events, and relevant links out to the campus community, and they created a slick aggregation space that brings all of this together […] Continue reading →

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Create your own LibGuides with WordPress

Posted on 6 Nov ’09 by Reverend

The librarians here at UMW’s Stafford Campus have been experimenting with UMW Blogs to create their own version of LibGuides. Jami Bryan and Paul Boger came to me almost a year ago and showed me LibGuides (a subscription CMS for libraries using Web2.0 features) and its various features—you can see it in action at DePauw […] Continue reading →

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