Regarding academic blogs as well as student organization blogs and some other non-academic use.<\/p>\n
Nate has WordPress structured into 2 separate “zones.”\u00a0 One zone is blogs.butler.edu and lives on a server called MALLARD.\u00a0 Although we have a case for unique blogs every so often, most blog requests are for academic (classroom) use and are benign.\u00a0 As long as the client agrees that search engine indexing can remain off, there should be minimal barriers to receiving a blog for these purposes.\u00a0 Examples of non-academic blogs that are in the other zone are blogs such as booth.butler.edu<\/a> and thebutlercollegian.com<\/a> websites.\u00a0 So, essentially, we can do blogs by DIRECTORY name OR DOMAIN name.<\/p>\n Nate mentioned something about one solution and EPICS, CAESAR, but I have no idea what that meant???\u00a0 There was a discussion of bringing “external” blogs in.\u00a0 There was also a strong idea of generating some sort of “showcase” for the default location (blogs.butler.edu) to show some of the best blogs being run on our install.\u00a0 A listing of all blogs at least, but preferably something a little more visual and engaging to demonstrate what people are doing with their blogs.<\/p>\n During one planning meeting, a list of concerns\/issues was generated that needed thought, options, decisions, policy, documentation, etc.<\/p>\n Could the Help Desk be folded into this equation somehow?\u00a0 Could they offer any type of end-user support for WP blogs in the long run?<\/p>\n\n