In the team meeting today Steve R suggested opening this blog to the wider world. This seems a good a place as any to discuss this…
Ahead of having our own blog server it would be good to think about how we are going to use it / them- what’s the purpose? I’m not against opening the Blog up but do we need a closed Blog too? Maybe not. What would be really nice would be one blog with the ability to restrict posts or categories to certain users. So when posting a message it is either ‘public’ or ‘CLT’. I don’t think WordPress allows this but i may have missed it. I’ve seen it in other blog-type tools such as ELGG
If we’re opening this blog up do we need two? Is a ‘Learning technology News’ or a ‘CLT News’ category within this Blog a possible replacement for the defunct newsletter blog? From our CLT homepage we could just link to the relavant category, for example VLE Evaluation Category
Yeah, the last suggestion is a possibility, but links and images (and possibly other things) aren’t shown when viewing a category for some reason. This would need to be fixed first.
I’m not too bothered about having a closed area, but we would need to think hard about whether just having a ‘CLT News’ category would make our own internal witterings a bit *too* prominent.
And what does ELGG not do that we are now getting used to with WordPress (there’s bound to be something)?
I also forgot to add that if taking the ‘CLT News’ category route it would be imperative that everyone assigns an appropriate category or creates one. Please.
Good point about categories. I’ve moved this message to Blog Testing. Do we need to agree on some categories or do we continue to let them develop??
ELGG’s more than a blog and i wouldn’t suggest it as an alternative. Word Press is fit for our purpose.
I think we let them develop. I don’t think they’re out of hand yet, but we can review if there is a category mushroom effect.