Author Archives: Jay Collier

A sign of things to come

By Jay Collier | Published: March 14, 2010
One of my professional heros, Jim Groom, aka edupunk, has written about the upcoming WordPress University event on April 8. More campuses are exploring and hacking on open source applications like WordPress to start re-imagining the social implications of web-based communities for publishing, research, teaching, and learning.
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Crossing boundaries

By Jay Collier | Published: March 12, 2010
I’m giving a presentation on crossing online boundaries in higher education at WordPress University in Norwood, Massachusetts (near Boston) on April 8. Organizer Randy Rode has put together a phenomenal agenda for this second annual conference, covering five distinctive uses of WordPress on campuses around the country. I’m excited about presenting several of the frameworks we’re [...]
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Bates Home/Views: a one-year report

By Jay Collier | Published: March 9, 2010
The Home/Views site — the first phase of a whole-domain renovation for Bates College — was designed to improve first impressions, draw visitors toward their interests, and help them make a deeper connection with the College. We welcomed 260,000 absolute unique visitors to the combined www.bates.edu and home.bates.edu sites in January, 2010; annualized, that is [...]
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The new BatesNews

By Jay Collier | Published: March 9, 2010
Now that we have official content streaming through our news blog (Bates Views), the next step has been to help people subscribe directly to RSS and e-mail notifications based on their interests. This month, we began to transition our monthly BatesNews e-mail blast into our new Bates Updates e-mail campaign service.
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