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 move our formal development work into an on-campus hosting environment. Read More »

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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 collaboration possibilities run the gamut from passing a Word document back-and-forth via e-mail to holding a multiparty videoconference. Read More »

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Evaluating Drupal and Wordpress MU

By Jay Collier | Published: January 25, 2010

Authoring, editing, and managing official College Web sites

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 MU.

Based on hands-on experience — as well as some preliminary ranking of criteria against our goals — I have been impressed with how similar these two packages behave in many ways. However, here are several areas where I’ve found differences worth attention. Read More »

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Site inventory version 1.0

By Jay Collier | Published: January 19, 2010

Thanks to the stellar work of our colleagues (especially Ted Coulombe) and our student assistants (Nelson Harris and Bradley McGraw), we now have a near-complete inventory of Web sites on Bates’ multiple public Web servers. Now that we have received permission to lead the effort to renovate Bates’ official Web sites, we are working on three parallel tracks. Read More »

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