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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Ken:<BR>
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I’m happy to share what we use on Blogs@Baruch, but I probably can’t get to writing it up until next week. If it slips my mind, feel free to shoot me an email to remind me. <BR>
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Best,<BR>
Luke<BR>
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Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.<BR>
Project Manager for Digital Learning<BR>
Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute | Baruch College | CUNY<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>"DeBlois, Kenneth" <<a href="Kenneth_DeBlois@brown.edu">Kenneth_DeBlois@brown.edu</a>><BR>
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<B>Date: </B>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:54:43 -0500<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Thanks Matthew (and Joseph),<BR>
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I found Joseph’s complete list of plug-ins to be very useful. Matthew, are you willing to share your list? Anyone else?<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
Ken<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com">mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Muro, Matthew<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:40 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> <a href="wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Ken,<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">For sitemap generation, I would check out Google Sitemaps Generator <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/</a>> . This is great, especially when you have thousands of links.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">For SEO, many have recommended All in one SEO Pack <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/</a>> , though I have not personally used it.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Google has a plugin for Feedburner called FeedSmith <<a href="http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483">http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483</a>> which <I>may</I> do what you want. Again, I have not tested this myself.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">When it comes to the email, however, it’s a little harder to find something. It all depends on how much control you want. I have tested just about all of the email subscription plugins out there and while some work better than others, they never fully met <I>my </I>needs. I ended up using MailChimp instead. If you need to stick with Wordpress, you can check out Subscribe2 <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/</a>> , Mailpress <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/</a>> , and Post Notification <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/</a>> .<BR>
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Good luck!<BR>
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B>Matthew Muro<BR>
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UA Office of Web Communications<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com">mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>DeBlois, Kenneth<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:41 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> <a href="wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering<BR>
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Hi Folks,<BR>
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I haven’t received a post from this list in a while. I’m hopeful that I’ll get some help from the folks out there.<BR>
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We’re in the middle of a pilot of Wordpress MU and getting ready to launch a full service. Our goal is to provide a blogging platform to be used by:<BR>
- Faculty as a teaching tool and a publishing platform to discuss there research<BR>
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- Student Organizations that want a blog instead of a website<BR>
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- Provide a web space for post-docs, graduate students, and others that want to discuss research online and want a simple publishing platform.<BR>
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- Administrative staff looking to share news, collaborate on projects, etc.<BR>
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I’m working to get a solid set of plug-ins to meet the needs of our audiences and I wanted to check in with folks about plug-ins.<BR>
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1) Does anyone use buddypress (<a href="http://buddypress.org/">http://buddypress.org/</a>) I’m trying to determine if it has value in our environment. I’d love to know if other colleges/universities have considered using it and what they’ve decided.<BR>
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2) Do any of you have good plug-in recommendations for :<BR>
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a. Blog sitemap generation<BR>
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b. SEO improvements<BR>
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c. Connection to Feedburner<BR>
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d. Sending out an email that contains the post to any subscriber that has indicated they want an email.<BR>
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To give you a sense of some of the other plug-ins that we are playing with, here is our list thus far:<BR>
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So far we have these system wide:<BR>
- Shibboleth for authentication<BR>
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- Simpler css – so blog owners can edit their CSS<BR>
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- cets_blog_defaults - provides a ton of default blog settings<BR>
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- Akismet – for spam<BR>
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- Bad Behavior – for spam and hacks<BR>
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- Supercache<BR>
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- Site-wide feed 1492758394_wpmufeed.php<BR>
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- Extra Private blog settings 999830698_ds_private_blog.php<BR>
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We allow blog admins to activate these plug-ins:<BR>
- After The Deadline<BR>
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- article2pdf<BR>
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- Flickr Gallery<BR>
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- Grunion Contact Form<BR>
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- PollDaddy Polls<BR>
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- Popularity Contest<BR>
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- Shadowbox JS<BR>
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- ShareThis<BR>
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- SyntaxHighlighter Evolved<BR>
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- WP-PostRatings<BR>
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- WPtouch iPhone Theme<BR>
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Thank you for any feedback!<BR>
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Best,<BR>
Ken<BR>
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Ken DeBlois<BR>
Online Communication Specialist<BR>
Brown WebServices<BR>
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