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College Media Network is hosting a conference call with GlobalPost’s David Case to focus on journalism jobs and a new partnership between GlobalPost and CBS to provide foreign reporting. The conference call is open to all college journalists (not just CMN affiliates). Click the link above to find out more information and RSVP . . . → Read More: GlobalPost/CMN conference call 5 p.m. EDT today Quite a few college publications made upgrades to their web sites over the summer. As I am able, I’ll post a link to sites with new designs or new backend systems. If your site has undergone a makeover, drop a line in the comments or via e-mail to scmurley-at-gmail.com, and I’ll post something as . . . → Read More: Ch-ch-changes happen over the summer for college news web sites  Comments - (Comments are closed)  College Publisher, Websites, Wordpress  college newspapers, College Publisher, Drupal, web sites, Wordpress Editor’s note: This week, CICM intern Lauren Rabaino wrote about the Mustang Daily’s recent switch from College Publisher to WordPress. The following is a response submitted by Rusty Lewis of College Media Network. CICM typically presents well-argued discussions of the technology angle of college media and so it seemed appropriate to present both sides of the Content . . . → Read More: College Publisher’s response Update II: here is College Publisher’s response – ed. Update: Full disclosure – Lauren’s newspaper, the Mustang Daily, is partnered with CoPress and after her CICM internship, she will join the CoPress team. Since the Mustang Daily switched from College Publisher to WordPress two weeks ago (through CoPress), my inbox has been flooded with questions about the process. For all of you out there who still have lingering questions, this guide should provide all the answers . The decision: Should you or shouldn’t you? If you answer “yes” to one or more of the following, then you’re ready for the switch:
A CoPress post entitled Can WordPress solve our College Publisher woes? from late September summarizes it nicely:
If you’re in the same boat — and sorry for making assumptions, but you probably are in that boat — then now’s as good a time as ever to move on to a better system. (If not, then I’ll quote an old inspirational poster cliché: “Change is not necessary. Survival is not mandatory.”) Continue reading Ready to leave College Publisher? Here’s how (Full disclosure: CICM intern Lauren Rabaino is the online and multimedia editor for mustangdaily.net). Today marks the end of one long journey and the start of a new one for me as the online editor of the Mustang Daily. Even before I was online editor, I had a vision of making the Mustang Daily’s Web site something . . . → Read More: Mustang Daily leaves College Publisher, launches Wordpress site Last year, CICM reported that 33 percent of the 2008 Online Pacemaker finalists (9 of 27) were College Publisher clients, and this year it’s slightly lower at 29 percent (12 of 41 sites). The breakdown: Four-year dailies: Five of 10 are College Publisher sites (only one is CP5) Four-year non-dailies: Five of 20 are College Publisher sites (two . . . → Read More: ACP announces 2009 Pacemaker Finalists These days, I’ve heard a lot of bad talk about College Publisher (College Media Network). Although the platform is less than ideal, it’s a great place for student newspapers to be– and it is, in fact, where most newspapers are. It doesn’t require the need to know extensive HTML, CSS, PHP or other web languages that are the cause of many headaches in the world. College Publisher offers a great service and as a starting point, it’s the platform I would recommend to any college newspaper getting its start on the Web. Because you’re working with a system that is proprietary, you’re going to have to work a little harder to get innovative. These are a few tips and notes about getting College Publisher to work the way you want it to. (Only about 50 of approximately 588 College Publisher news sites are using CP5, so this guide is mostly going to be directed toward users of CP4.) Continue reading 5 things College Publisher never told you Yesterday, the student technologists at CoPress (where I host the podcast) announced something that’s been several months in the making: A hosting solution with CMS for college media. This is an effort that takes a different approach from the dominant business model in college news hosting, that of College Publisher. Whereas College Publisher hosts web sites for . . . → Read More: CoPress offering hosting solution for college media looking to strike out on their own Comments - (Comments are closed) CoPress, College Media News, College Publisher, Websites, Wordpress Missed in the flurry of election news was this tidbit posted on the College Media Network blog on Monday: CP5 Development Plans Basically, CMN is freezing the deployment of College Publisher 5 until after the first of the year. There are currently 50 papers using the new platform. That said, Atex is making bigger investments in the development . . . → Read More: CMN freezes deployment of CP5 Chris Gillon has posted a link-heavy list of college media sites that are now using CP 5.0 on the CMN Weblog. From a glance, I note that many of the sites seem to have (finally) abandoned the left nav bar (see RIP left nav bar ? – 2007 for background). I haven’t heard much from people who are . . . → Read More: CP 5 rollout continues |
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