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Tools for managing multiple class blogs

December 23, 2009 in Pedagogy by Amy Cavender

Moving away from a full-blown CMS for your courses and using blogs instead? In this post, you'll find a brief discussion of tools that can be very helpful for managing multiple course blogs without going crazy.

Using a Blog to Run Your Courses? Why You Might Consider WPMU.

December 11, 2009 in Pedagogy, Products by Amy Cavender

You're thinking of using a blog in conjunction with your courses, and you like what you see in the WordPress platform. Do you go with WordPress, or with WordPress MU?

Writing in the Internet’s Margins

October 2, 2009 in Productivity by Brian Croxall

Over the last year, several academic manuscripts have been posted online to allow for commenting before the are ever sent to the press. ProfHacker takes a quick look at two of the tools--CommentPress and digress.it--that power such projects.

Using WordPress and DevonThink together

September 16, 2009 in Productivity by Amy Cavender

As academics, we're writers, and we know that writing keeps the ideas flowing. What tools are available if we want to keep our earliest efforts at articulating our ideas private, but also want them to be searchable so we can mine them later? Mac users might find that WordPress and DevonThink work well when used together.

Thinking about WordPress Plugins?

September 3, 2009 in Productivity by Julie Meloni
Following on Ethan Watrall’s recent post, Finding the Best WordPress Themes for your Academic Needs, my intention was to write a short post about finding the best WordPress plugins for your academic needs. But that’s difficult to do when “academic needs” is a really broad topic, and your level of access to installing plugins [...]

Finding the Best WordPress Themes for your Academic Needs

August 27, 2009 in How-To by Ethan Watrall
For a number of years, WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org) has been enjoyed increasing attention in the academic community.  It is open source, has an incredibly easy install process (especially for a server side app), is remarkably flexible, and has a great development community behind it.  Part of the allure of WordPress is that it has a very [...]

Website Hosting 101

August 25, 2009 in ProfHacker 101 by Julie Meloni

Although you may have access to web space using your college or university account, whether or not that is a productive space depends on issues likely outside of your control. Wouldn’t it be nice to have virtually unlimited access to your own shiny new domain name and web hosting account? Can you afford one measly dollar per week over the course of a year (if that) for the freedom this access would bring?