Posts under ‘Websites’

The Tower student newspaper at Catholic University of America set up a separate blog to detail the Pope’s visit to campus. Updates (like this one) were sent to the WordPress-backed blog with a Blackberry phone.
h/t Andrew Young at UWire
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Daniel Randolph at Loras College writes about the launch of LCTV13.com, the web site for the TV station at Loras College in Iowa. They’re using a WordPress install. You can read the details (and a gentle slam at our “print-centric” focus around here) at Daniel’s blog.
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The Nevada Sagebrush did so. Check it out here. Interesting use of Twitter. Of course, they could have also used CoveritLive or UStream to videocast it.
h/t Greg Linch

 
A social network for discussing Content Management Systems. This should be fun.
h/t Megan Taylor
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Kyle Hansen reports on the Spartan Daily using CoverItLive for a budget forum in California. You can see the liveblog here.

 
Sometimes disagreement can highlight something good. Case in point, Eric Jacobs points to the Daily Pennsylvanian’s 2008 Student Elections Candidate Guide. Not only does the guide have a photo of each candidate, but it includes a video statement from some candidates, and a list of endorsements. Obviously a huge project, but something worth considering for […]

 
I wrote previously about the Miami Hurricane’s decision to move off College Publisher. EIC Greg Lynch writes that they have decided against using Drupal as their new content management system, settling instead on WordPress, inspired by Sean Blanda and the experience of the Temple News. Lynch mentions the Nevada Sagebrush as another WP-powered college news […]

Whitney Rhodes at George Mason points to Connect Mason’s multimedia efforts on protests surrounding the 5th anniversary of the War in Iraq. Check it out. They’ve got a long (over 9 minutes) audio slideshow, and some videos, along with a reflection column from one of the staffers.
Any other college media outlets do anything interesting […]

Being involved as the first school to beta test the new College Publisher 5.0, or Polopoly system, I have found there is a real need to get more feedback from other papers to see what they would like in the new system. I also hope this will be a good platform to keep people updated […]

 
Albert comments that the Daily Pennsylvanian will be livestreaming a Hillary Clinton speech this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. You can watch the live video (using Ustream.tv technology) at this link. You may recall that the Spartan Daily at SJSU streamed a press meeting last week.
Ustream’s software is free to use, and appears to work […]