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Introduced brookesblogs.net at eL@B today

brookesblogs.net was set up by Phil Whitehead and Jim Hyndman about three years ago at Westminster Institute using the Edublogs WordPress platform.
 
Meanwhile, Brookes has been running several JISC funded support and synthesis projects.
 
One of these, Emerge, is using social networking to provide community-based support for a large national R&D programme (the JISC Users and Innovation Programme).
 
brookesblogs.net needed a new hosting environment and updating. As we were using a range of similar tools, and because Brookes provides some matching funds to the programme, it seemed right to host it on our support and synthesis platform.
 
brookesblogs.net uses the WordPress Multi User (WPMU) platform.
 
It will be supported at least until the end of March 2011.

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Posted 9 months ago

Well, you *can* tag posterous posts as you write them

See here for how. It is interesting using email as a blogging environment. I have been using Ecto for several years to post to LiveJournal, WordPress and TypePad blogs or using web interfaces for Elgg (or feeds in). One good thing about Ecto is that it keeps local copies of my writing, which are then backed up. Given I squirrel my email away and seldom delete anything, I suppose using my mail client as a blog authoring environment achieves the same end. By tagging the post in the heading I would even be able to use the search facility to find items. Of course there is not so much control over formatting; or, I haven't yet found it. I wonder if I gave up my luddite attachment to courier monospace for writing mails and went for RTF or html mail, whether the formatting would be carried through to Posterous and the items re-posted from there?

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Posted 10 months ago