Category Archives: The Hub

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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Web Hub FAQ number 1

By Jay Collier | Published: February 12, 2010
Here is the first set of frequently-asked questions about the Web Hub. What is the Web Hub? It will be a new way to publish department, program, and office content, and to connect with on- and off-campus people who are interested in Bates. The program covers the official sites of recognized College units. Individual and group sites [...]
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Focus on WordPress MU support

By Jay Collier | Published: February 10, 2010
At the end of a rapid (5-week) formal evaluation of Drupal and WordPress MU, I recommended that MU be the content platform of choice for our official site renovation project, the Web Hub. Our IT colleagues agreed and so, over the next several weeks, they’ll be installing, configuring, and testing the software so we can [...]
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Evaluating Drupal and Wordpress MU

By Jay Collier | Published: January 25, 2010
Authoring, editing, and managing official College Web sites [Note (3/1/10): we have selected and recommended WordPress MU, and it's being currently configured on campus hosting.] As part of our new Web Hub program — and in previous discovery projects (2008 | 2007) — I’ve been evaluating open-source content management software. Our two finalists are Drupal and Wordpress [...]
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