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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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Online collaboration for workgroups

By Jay Collier | Published: February 8, 2010
Ann McClure included our workgroup collaboration strategy in the February issue of University Business. Meet Me Online Collaboration tools allow administrators to work together even if they can’t get together. People rarely work in isolation. But it’s not always easy to meet in person to work on a project. Connecting online can be done from almost anywhere. The [...]
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Review: Bates College goes beyond the usual homepage redesign

By Jay Collier | Published: September 22, 2009
Bates College goes beyond the usual homepage redesign with Home 4… From Karine Joly at College Web Editor Have you seen Bates College’s new homepage? You should check it out. It is really different and innovative. Not because it uses fancy graphics or animations, but because Jay Collier and his team at Bates College have decided to make [...]
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RodeWorks on Bates Online Media

By Jay Collier | Published: December 2, 2008
Randy Rode wrote about our approach to online communications in higher education. Bates College in Maine has a group exploring the role of new media in their higher education environment.  The blog includes a really interesting chart of the evolutionary direction of the online ecosystem.  They are working on some prototypes, with the goal of using [...]
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