OS4+-+Frost

This page is for notes from Open Space #4 in Frost.

Conveners, you (or your designee) should update your wiki page with:
 * title of your session
 * covener name
 * names of the participants
 * and a high-level summary and sharing of resources

Dave Brenner from Whipplehill in attendance. Also Doug, Zach and Jess from WH, Cory.

Questions from the get go:

How to One school had 120 operative blogs. Want to understand what schools are doing with blogs. Looking to integrate Wordpress. What's working? Moving from using news channels to blogs? How is Wordpress being used for marketing? School lost print newspaper - looking to transition to blogging. Private Blog used for sharing human interest stories = want to learn how to get more interaction. Wordpress and classpages - how to improve usage of the tool. How do you schools organize regarding usage of personal blogs. Revitalizing current blog - getting students to use blogs. New to Wordpress/WH. Just here to explore.

Dave Brenner: Single sign up - access through WH login. Requests for new plugins and themes should also be sent to WH support.

Request for enhancements:
 * Tighter integration so blog writers don't have to leave WH to manage content - some disagreement as to whether that is beneficial vs. using the already robust WP control panel to write content.
 * Content type called Wordpress (wordpress channel) - connecting students personal blogs to academic groups - so they can move with students.
 * Right now, links to every blog have to be made and listed on a podium page (list channel). A better way to organize blogs so remove need for manual organizing

Questions brought up: How do you manage undesirable WH will do upgrades automatically. Recommends that upgrade requests through WH Support.

Walnut Hill Arts - uses Wordpress throughout their site. https://my.walnuthillarts.org/ https://www.newarka.edu/podium/ has created an online newspaper - http://blogs.robs.org/ROBSNow/ example of school with a public blog.

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