http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/07/14/wordpress-beyond-blogging-joss-winn/ Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/07/14/wordpress-beyond-blogging-joss-winn/#comment-60 Highlights of #iwmw10 « JISC Digital Communications Team blog Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:06:06 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/?p=662#comment-60 [...] I also really enjoyed Joss Win’s parallel session on ‘Wordpress: Beyond Blogging’ (see slides). I’ve heard others talk about it in such terms for a while but Joss really convinced me that WP is a ‘bleeding edge technology platform’, not just a bit of (albeit very good) blogging software. The thing that got me really interested in WP in the first place is its great usability. It’s intuitive and it empowers users to get on with creating content – the whole point, after all. It puts most of the ‘enterprise web content management systems’ to shame in this vital respect . My current interest in Wordpress is as a platform for microsites and I was excited by the potential speed and low cost of producing sites in this way, as well as the minimal support overhead (we are a team of 2 now!). Key to the success of WP though is its dizzying array of plugins that seem to do just about everything you could conceive of and keep apace with new developments on the web. These ones sounded cool and useful: BuddyPress (social network), RDFa, domain mapping, sitewide tags (add tags to non-blog pages), more privacy options, wp-super-cache (essential for WPMU apparently), akismet (spam filter – free for non-profits). Joss also talked about some of his more innovative work with Wordpress, such as WriteToReply and the JISC-funded JISCPress – two flavours of the same tool that provide ‘deliberative documents’ i.e. enables granular commentary on individual paragraphs of a document. This was used for getting feedback on the latest JISC strategy and is also being increasingly used by government for consultative documents. Joss talks about his session on the IWMW blog. [...] [...] I also really enjoyed Joss Win’s parallel session on ‘WordPress: Beyond Blogging’ (see slides). I’ve heard others talk about it in such terms for a while but Joss really convinced me that WP is a ‘bleeding edge technology platform’, not just a bit of (albeit very good) blogging software. The thing that got me really interested in WP in the first place is its great usability. It’s intuitive and it empowers users to get on with creating content – the whole point, after all. It puts most of the ‘enterprise web content management systems’ to shame in this vital respect . My current interest in WordPress is as a platform for microsites and I was excited by the potential speed and low cost of producing sites in this way, as well as the minimal support overhead (we are a team of 2 now!). Key to the success of WP though is its dizzying array of plugins that seem to do just about everything you could conceive of and keep apace with new developments on the web. These ones sounded cool and useful: BuddyPress (social network), RDFa, domain mapping, sitewide tags (add tags to non-blog pages), more privacy options, wp-super-cache (essential for WPMU apparently), akismet (spam filter – free for non-profits). Joss also talked about some of his more innovative work with WordPress, such as WriteToReply and the JISC-funded JISCPress – two flavours of the same tool that provide ‘deliberative documents’ i.e. enables granular commentary on individual paragraphs of a document. This was used for getting feedback on the latest JISC strategy and is also being increasingly used by government for consultative documents. Joss talks about his session on the IWMW blog. [...]

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