To celebrate the impending 1000th blog at edublogs.org I’ve created a Drupal based edublogs.org community.
To participate all you need to do is role on over there, grab yourself a username (synching databases falls, um, into the ‘too hard’ basket ;) and get posting.
This has the added bonus in that now people can support each other… rather than it just being me.. yay :D Useful in the next month or so as well.
I played around with bbPress at first and then figured that I’d use a Drupal installation as I kinda like how very very flat it can be. I’m not envisiging a deluge of activity so I think this might work better than a category based forum system – for now – and I can always add forums if they become necessary.
Oh, and the subscription module is pretty handy too for people wanting to keep track of particular conversations through email.
Will be interesting either way… let’s see if it works and if edublogs does tick over the 1000 blog mark tonight…
Hmm Drupal over bbPress now you got me wondering. I was hot on bbPress to help build a community enivronment now I need to pause and think.
Thought you might be thinking about that! Look, I reckon that if you want a forum system it’s tops… very much so, but I also figured that a forum system works best for support, only ever really succeeds if you get a few people hanging around (and that’s out of interest in the software usually, rather than the community).
And I wanted peopel to be able to email subscribe to threads… and Drupal can be extended (a lot) if required…. either eway, we shall see.
Hope yer project is going OK.
I did an install of azbb (http://www.azbb.org/) for my wife’s web site (http://www.ako.net.nz). The forum needs a version update, but I found the install and customisation no huge deal. Az him/her self (with just two letters it’s hard to tell) is very friendly and responsive to duh-umb questions, and yes, I had a few. Mostly because of confusion between the interpretations of hosting company’s info and azbb’s info. Also, azbb just worked first time – goodness knows that’s confusing in itself.
Azbb is not without those little quirks that we’ve come to know and love as undocumented features, however overall I’ve found it to be a) priced about right ;) and b) works fine.
Your mileage may vary. Azbb pays me ba-zillion$ to endorse their product.
Hi James… I am learning heaps from your article on incorporated subversion and am about to give a conference paper on my experience of using Weblogs in my literature classes at ACU in Sydney… your article inspired my use of this early in the year and I have a heap of experiences to draw on now… I want to cite your article and your credentials… in a nut shell what are they???
Look forward to talking with you some more… tried to become a member of your community but somehow it would not let me enter…
Cheers
Michael.
Hi Michael,
This one slipped through the net… sorry… cite away :O) My credentials are really as here: http://incsub.org/blog/about/ in my day job I’m a lecturer in educational Design at a Melbourne University.
Hope you’ve had moe luck with edublogs.
One thing that edublogs would really benefit from is a login button on the main page. I created a blog there in August, made a few posts, but I can’t figure out how to get back in!
Corrie, you should be able to get back in if you go to http://corrie.edublogs.org/wp_login.php and enter your user id and password.
No joy, Michael. That URL redirected me to another site entirely – search.ug for some reason. I tried http://corrie.edublogs.org/login/wp_login.php, but that just shows me my blog, with no login button and no editing features.
Corrie, try http://corrie.edublogs.org/wp-login.php (I think I had a typo) also on your theme there is a login link near the bottom of your site http://corrie.edublogs.org that will take you to the same place.