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The One and Only – All Things LIS Blog

Posted in LIS Website Teams
September 17th, 2009 by Elin Waagen

Voted yes on the one-blog readiness; will discuss how to launch at our next meeting.
Current categories listed below. Any change before we move ahead?

External Audience - term used TBD by vote by Fri 9/18 at 5 pm

Areas and Workgroups - use name of area as the category and use functions of the work area as tags (audience is mostly internal)

* Academic Consulting Services – research support, instruction, liaison
* Collection Management – aquire, catalog, preserve, maintain resources
* Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure – programming, systems, reporting, network
* LIS Administration – budget, planing, policy, assessment, strategy
* User Services – technology help and support, borrowing and lending, computing support, computing labs, media and event support

Institutions
* Middlebury
* MIIS
* Language Schools
* Schools Abroad
* Bread Loaf School of English
* Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
* MMLA

Teams
* Area Directors
* Curricular Technology
* Digitization
* LIS Website

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LIS landing page and the blog

Posted in LIS Website Teams
September 17th, 2009 by Jess Isler

How will the LIS landing page point to the Blog? I don’t think we’ve discussed whether or not our landing pages will contain a link to the blog, a feed to the blog, or both.

If we had both, would it make sense to have a link going to the whole blog, and a feed listing only our outward-facing category posts (and only displaying 2 or 3 posts so as not to clutter the page)?

e.g.

LIS landing page:

  • Link to all blog
  • Feed with Good to know(/TBD)

The LIS landing page is the only place where we have to make this determination, correct? (Since primary contacts are deciding what goes on their pages.)

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Default All things LIS category

Posted in LIS Website Teams
September 17th, 2009 by Jess Isler

Following a long and lively discussion at our meeting today, we agreed that our team members would vote on the following terms to set as the default category name for our one blog. (This default term is intended to fill the “external” category role. We decided making this the default would encourage posters to be proactive in selecting categories.)

  • Bringing knowledge to you
  • Good to know
  • Need to know
  • The essentials
  • Tuned in

Voting will end at close of business Friday, 9/18. (Please, no additional suggestions…)

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Blogging: Post and Theme Statistics

Posted in LIS Website Teams
September 15th, 2009 by Ian McBride

Alex Chapin wrote a neat tool to analyze stats in our wordpress database and came up with this information. This information will help show us which are the most active blogs and which themes people prefer to use. These are the most popular themes on the blogging server:

Theme # of blogs % of all blogs
WordPress mu Default 95 26.2%
MistyLook 56 15.5%
Tarski 28 7.7%
Blue Tarski 26 7.2%
Digg 3 Columns 19 5.2%
Middlebury 19 5.2%
Jammed Blue 17 4.7%
Blue Zinfandel Enhanced 14 3.9%
Blue Zinfandel Squared Enhanced 14 3.9%
Integral 10 2.8%
Feather pen 10 2.8%
Blue Box 8 2.2%
tonus 8 2.2%
CommentPress 6 1.7%
Oldschool 5 1.4%
WashMe Inverted 4 1.1%
Note 4 1.1%
PhilosophyTheme 3 0.8%
WordPress mu Default/home 3 0.8%
MiddTube_layout 2 0.6%
WordPress Classic 2 0.6%
schoolsinsessionA 2 0.6%
MiddEarth 2 0.6%
Feet 1 0.3%
NT-authory 1 0.3%
Feng Shui 1 0.3%
schoolsinsessionB 1 0.3%
Tarski for the Symposium 1 0.3%

And here are the blogs ranked by number of posts:

Blog # of Posts % of total posts
Evolving Forms of Literacy 362 4.19
Circulation Services 331 3.83
Media Technology 2008 318 3.68
Peer Writing Tutors at Middlebury College 299 3.46
The Language Wars 289 3.34
Middlebury Headlines 276 3.19
Graphic Novel 267 3.09
MIIS@work 219 2.53
A blog @ all things LIS 214 2.48
Presidential Power 164 1.9
Fast Food/Slow Food 154 1.78
William Tell Coleman Library 138 1.6
Office of Student Services 120 1.39
Stories from a Vermont Town 113 1.31
Office of International Services 107 1.24
Watching The Wire 106 1.23
Policy Career Development Newsletter 105 1.21
Jane Austen and Film 101 1.17
MIIS DMC 98 1.13
Geospatial Technology in LIS 86 1
Monterey Institute MAP Peer Mentor Program 83 0.96
Random Roamings 77 0.89
LIS Website Project 76 0.88
Quinde Journey to the Past 75 0.87
LIS Restructuring 72 0.83
Slices of Cake 71 0.82
One Dean�s View 64 0.74
LIS Suggestions 63 0.73
Jane Austen 06 63 0.73
International Political Economy (Spring 2009) 60 0.69
Beowulf Parallel Computing Cluster 59 0.68
Winning the Race Together at Middlebury 57 0.66
De Middelbury � Poitiers : Le Blog 56 0.65
Computer Science Systems 56 0.65
Brendan Owens Test 54 0.62
Name of the Rose 54 0.62
Theories of Popular Culture 54 0.62
Biomass at Middlebury 53 0.61
Middlebury Web Makeover 52 0.6
Film and Media Culture at Middlebury 52 0.6
Anthroposophy in Art 49 0.57
Web Makeover Docs 47 0.54
Ian’s Web Services 47 0.54
How Did You Get Here? 47 0.54
Global Warming Solutions – the FYSE1239 blog 46 0.53
The Middlebury Trailrunner 46 0.53
kade collaborati 43 0.5
Shweta’s Space 41 0.47
Learning to Write College Papers 41 0.47
Tomorrow is another day 40 0.46
RIDDIM World Dance Troupe 39 0.45
Power Strip 38 0.44
Academic Consulting Services 38 0.44
SGAFC Minutes Blog 38 0.44
The home of the Grille Ghost 37 0.43
Global Justice 37 0.43
One Dean’s View 37 0.43
Sticks and Stones Magazine Submissions 37 0.43
International Law (Spring 2009) 35 0.4
Middlebury College Rugby Club 35 0.4
Middlebury Outdoor Guide 34 0.39
Writing to Heal 34 0.39
Transmedia Storytelling in Television 2.0 34 0.39
Ron on Middlebury 33 0.38
saijai’s space 32 0.37
Brett’s Class Blog 32 0.37
Digital Media Tutors 32 0.37
Curricular Technology Team 32 0.37
The one best thing that happened today. 31 0.36
angeow 31 0.36
International Political Economy (Fall 09) 31 0.36
Student Symposiums: Resources for Presenters 30 0.35
Staff Book Groups 30 0.35
Disability in a Global Context 30 0.35
meanderings of a hungry mind 28 0.32
Ross’s Retreat 28 0.32
blog, jj, blog. 28 0.32
Emily goes to Middlebury! 27 0.31
geography of islands 27 0.31
Middlebury Christian Fellowship 26 0.3
LIS Advisory Groups 26 0.3
Jared’s Narrative Media Musings 26 0.3
Nick Bestor’s “Narration Across Media” Blogtacular Extravaganza 25 0.29
19th Century Russian Literature 25 0.29
film and online video 25 0.29
During the life 24 0.28
James Ashley Morrison 24 0.28
Teaching with Technology 24 0.28
A Stonebraker Narrative 24 0.28
Brainerd Commons 24 0.28
Spotlight/Focus on MIIS 23 0.27
James’ Blog 22 0.25
International Order in the 20th Century (Fall 09) 21 0.24
CSO: Career Services Media Archive 21 0.24
The Terra Project 21 0.24
New Media @ MIIS 21 0.24
Macroeconomic Theory 21 0.24
Mehdi Prevot 20 0.23
MiddEarth 20 0.23
Language School Video Contest 19 0.22
THE ECONOMICS COURT JESTER 19 0.22
431 – Matt Leonard 19 0.22
Narration Across Scott 19 0.22
Vermont Campus Compact 18 0.21
EC265 – ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS 18 0.21
Middle East Studies at Middlebury 18 0.21
Alumni & Parent Programs 18 0.21
Aaron Smith’s Response Journal 18 0.21
Getting to 350: Building Strategies for 21st Century Aspirations 18 0.21
Writing College Papers 18 0.21
On That Note 18 0.21
In the Middle 17 0.2
Duna Tatour 17 0.2
MiddTube 17 0.2
History and Philosophy of Science 17 0.2
Birth of the Cool: American Culture at Mid-Century 17 0.2
Blogging at Middlebury 17 0.2
Ioana’s “Narration Across Media” Blog 16 0.19
MIISpoken 16 0.19
Andrew’s Blog 15 0.17
ES380 – 21st Century Global Challenges 15 0.17
Charlie’s thoughts on Narration Across Media 15 0.17
David Ellis’ Narration Blog 15 0.17
narration across media 15 0.17
Facilities Services 15 0.17
Asmedia 15 0.17
Test Blog 14 0.16
Midd:day 14 0.16
Helena’s Home 14 0.16
Virtual Worlds at Middlebury 14 0.16
Reserves Information 13 0.15
More than The Fourth Estate 13 0.15
Careers in the Common Good 13 0.15
Narration Across Media 13 0.15
The Middlebury Landscape 13 0.15
51 Main 13 0.15
AcaTechie 12 0.14
Bid Chaos Welcome 12 0.14
Farming in Starksboro Vermont 12 0.14
alexblog 12 0.14
^~^ 12 0.14
ES SENIOR SEMINAR 12 0.14
Jue’s 12 0.14
Web Communications 12 0.14
Matthew Kimble’s Lab 12 0.14
Middlebury College Women’s Rugby Club 12 0.14
DJCElektropage 11 0.13
A Teachable Movement 11 0.13
To Kill a Mockingbird 11 0.13
Alliance for Civic Engagement 11 0.13
End Beginning and Middle 11 0.13
Middlebury en Guadalajara 11 0.13
Talha’s Roamings 11 0.13
Orientation 2009 10 0.12
MiddFund 10 0.12
Honor Code Review Discussion Boards 10 0.12
Jason Narrating Across Media 10 0.12
Trees are Nice 10 0.12
Research Blog 09 10 0.12
SGA Comprehensive Fee Committee 10 0.12
H.Schuerger 9 0.1
blog 9 0.1
Digital Driving 9 0.1
middlebury meta-confessional 9 0.1
A(twater) Log 9 0.1
Shel’s Blog 9 0.1
LIS Project Directory 9 0.1
The Board 9 0.1
What’s Happening in Special Collections 9 0.1
Middlebury College Organic Garden 9 0.1
LIS Forms 8 0.09
Institutional Planning & Diversity 8 0.09
Peter’s world 8 0.09
SporkTV 8 0.09
Stroblpeter’s Abenteuer 8 0.09
Environmental Affairs Information 8 0.09
Career Services Internship Programs 8 0.09
Quincy’s Blog 8 0.09
US-Mexico Relations 8 0.09
New England Review 8 0.09
AccuTrack Administration Notes 8 0.09
A Brief History of Lake Champlain 8 0.09
The Keys to Angels and Demons 8 0.09
Mero Sansar 7 0.08
untitled 7 0.08
Event Scheduling & Information 7 0.08
Test Public Safety 7 0.08
Voices Along the Way FYSE 7 0.08
Multimedia Tutor Training at Midd 7 0.08
English at the Monterey Institute 7 0.08
Allison Stanger 7 0.08
Middlebury Schools Abroad 7 0.08
Mexico-US Relations 7 0.08
LISterine Workshops 7 0.08
Middlebury Class of 2011 7 0.08
FYSE’s blog for learning about learning 7 0.08
Test Kimble Lab 6 0.07
Revelations Run Amok 6 0.07
Dolci 6 0.07
Aspirationalism 6 0.07
ACS Liaisons 6 0.07
M2 IPMS 6 0.07
UMOJA Election 6 0.07
Facilities Furniture 6 0.07
Microphilanthropy 6 0.07
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The Pizza Process 2009 6 0.07
The Malleable Human 6 0.07
CCAL 6 0.07
Jeffrey Byers 6 0.07
“What does Middlebury mean to you”? 6 0.07
Maple Falling in Vermont 6 0.07
Kiewit Scholarship at Middlebury 6 0.07
world can be more beautiful 6 0.07
Administrative Systems 5 0.06
Test of CommentPress 5 0.06
Advanced Beginning Dance 5 0.06
Vermont Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission 5 0.06
Student Fellowships and Scholarships 5 0.06
DPS Telecom Blog 5 0.06
Public Affairs test 5 0.06
INTERNET ART 5 0.06
middlebury squash 5 0.06
Flat Tire 5 0.06
Media Services 5 0.06
Alex Chapin 5 0.06
Teaching & Learning Collaborative 5 0.06
Midd East Action 5 0.06
Internships ‘R Us 5 0.06
Digital Media for Change 4 0.05
Middlebury College Blogs 4 0.05
MMLA Faculty Site 4 0.05
Another Dean’s View 4 0.05
Captains, kings and caudillos 4 0.05
Chris’ blog 4 0.05
Parenthetical Phase 4 0.05
Creative Process 4 0.05
Career Services Office 4 0.05
Keith’s blog 4 0.05
College Advancement 4 0.05
MIDD Web2.0 4 0.05
Watts What 4 0.05
Brendan’s Blog 4 0.05
Firefly Project 4 0.05
Google Apps @ Middlebury 4 0.05
FYSE1121 Representations of Urban Italy 4 0.05
You Turn Radio 3 0.03
New England Afghan Community 3 0.03
La bit�cora de Carlos Jurado 3 0.03
Turtle Island Radio.com 3 0.03
Barnwell Project 3 0.03
Petar’s Blog 3 0.03
Economic Metaphors & Storytelling 3 0.03
In Hardwood Groves 3 0.03
Revolution, Intellectuals and the State 3 0.03
Midd CSO: Senior Program 3 0.03
catablogger 3 0.03
Urban Gardening 3 0.03
Salamander Rescues 3 0.03
Contemporary Moral Issues 3 0.03
Midd Musings: internet, strategy, et al 3 0.03
Kate Sullivan 3 0.03
Human Resources 3 0.03
Template for New Blogs 3 0.03
Digital Media Supervisor 3 0.03
Middlebury Printing Project 3 0.03
A View From The Basement 3 0.03
LIS Graduate Internship 3 0.03
Work 3 0.03
Database of Organisations 3 0.03
Cook Commons Council 3 0.03
Aesthetics of the Moving Image 3 0.03
testing 1 2 3 3 0.03
Computing Policy & Security touches us all 3 0.03
Daisy’s Dreamland 3 0.03
Timilsina Corp. 3 0.03
Public Saftey 3 0.03
Let’s Talk Poetry Now 3 0.03
Media Lab Tutoring from Erik Fendik’s point of view 3 0.03
The Wonnablog 3 0.03
Rohatyn Center for International Affairs 3 0.03
Just another day… 2 0.02
Adam’s Test Blog 2 0.02
Logblog 2 0.02
Business Intelligence 2 0.02
Programma Settimanale 2 0.02
International Law (Spring 2010) 2 0.02
FYSE 1278 Fall 09 Picturing Nature 2 0.02
Chris’ Blog 2 0.02
SpareTime 2 0.02
Middlebury Mountain Club 2 0.02
egullick 2 0.02
Middlebury Magazine 2 0.02
New England Young Writers Conference 2 0.02
WordPress @ Middlebury 2 0.02
raja 2 0.02
Russian for a year 2 0.02
chathaji 2 0.02
test 2 0.02
smurf madness 2 0.02
koalaZ 2 0.02
MiddBorrowing 2 0.02
qchong 2 0.02
Robyn’s Roamings 2 0.02
Theatre 2 0.02
Media Forms 2 0.02
omyomtov 2 0.02
Chaplain’s Office 2 0.02
Envisioning and planning transinstitutional work i 2 0.02
Student Employment 2 0.02
MoreMedia 2 0.02
My Sanctuary 2 0.02
Office Services-MIIS 2 0.02
The Segue from Segue 2 0.02
SIGHT AND SOUND l 2 0.02
Chemistry & Biochemistry 2 0.02
Emotion Expt 2 0.02
Chad Harris III 2 0.02
International Tax Questions 2 0.02
Commons Administration 2 0.02
Middlebury Career Services 2 0.02
Monterey Institute Student Journals 2 0.02
Ross Commons Council 2 0.02
Bread Loaf School of English 2 0.02
where I can create forms 2 0.02
MIIS Student Journals 2 0.02
Ten Votes 2 0.02
The Life of Vincent Jones 2 0.02
Judicial Boards 2 0.02
Code Simple 2 0.02
Digital Media Commons 2 0.02
Brendan Owens Test Blog 2 0.02
Captains, Kings and Caudillos 2 0.02
LIS User Services Statistics 2 0.02
the abcdarium 2 0.02
teaching & learning snippets 2 0.02
Adam’s Testing blog 2 0.02
Middlebury Planned Giving Conference 2 0.02
Midd Global Action 2 0.02
Anna Karenina in the 21st Century 2 0.02
musings 2 0.02
MIDD Confessional Forum 2 0.02
Middlebury Class of �85 2 0.02
sustainability 2 0.02
The Dissipated Eight 2 0.02
Ian’s Test 2 0.02
Innovation 2 0.02
scuola 2 0.02
Discussion Veguez 2 0.02
ACS 2 0.02
ETI 2 0.02
Arabic House 2 0.02
Middlebury Public Affairs 2 0.02
It’s a linguistic cadaver-all bones, no meat 2 0.02
Budget Suggestions 1 0.01
Honor Code Review Committee 1 0.01
Middlebury College Office of Gift Planning 1 0.01
Trustees of Middlebury College 1 0.01
Reprographics 1 0.01
The Music Library @ Midd 1 0.01
Middlebury Schools Abroad in Latin America (Chile and Mexico) 1 0.01
Banner Forms 1 0.01
LIS Accomplishments 1 0.01
Macky’s blog 1 0.01
Pedagogy and Technology Fair 1 0.01
Arts 1 0.01
Sui Generis 0 0
dhankerson 0 0
Banner Developers 0 0
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More on blog categories

Posted in LIS Website Teams
September 9th, 2009 by Jess Isler

For discussion.
What should we call the External category instead of External? Suggestions in the running:

  • Did you know? (or some variation?)
  • Other ideas?

Do we need an All LIS category?

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One Blog to Pool them All

Posted in LIS Website Teams
September 8th, 2009 by Ian McBride

Here are my initial ideas of how this could be organized.

Existing Infrastructure

We’ll take the current LISt blog, rename it to just “LIS” and grant all staff in LIS Editor access to the blog. Student workers and LIS-related people like department advisory groups will have Author access granted as needed.

Porting Content

Users and groups with existing blogs may move their content into the LIS blog by going to Tools -> Export -> Download Export file in their blog, then Tools -> Import -> WordPress -> Upload file and Import. After doing so, they should go to Posts -> Categories and use the Category to Tag Converter to change any custom categories their blog had into tags on the LIS blog.

Categories

The LIS blog will start with this set of categories:

  • Audience
    • External
    • Internal
  • Areas
    • Academic Consulting Services
    • Collection Management
    • Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure
    • LIS Administration
    • User Services
  • Institutions
    • Middlebury
    • MIIS
    • Language Schools
    • Schools Abroad
    • Bread Loaf
    • MMLA
  • Teams
    • Area Directors
    • Curricular Technology
    • Digitization
    • LIS Website

All other existing categories in the LIS blog will be changed to tags. In general, we’ll encourage the use to tags to mark things like posts that have photos in them, posts about particular workgroups, posts about particular projects, or other things that tend to have a more temporally mutable quality to them. Categories will be used chiefly for broad categories that change infrequently.

Private Blogs

The LIS blog will not be used to store private content. Groups, such as ACS, who wish to have a private blog should continue to use and maintain their blog in its present form or create new private blogs if one has not yet been set up.

Internal vs. External

Posts that are likely to be interesting only to LIS staff should be marked with the Internal category. Examples of this content might include a notice about LIS goal setting. Note that these posts would still be readable by the public, but that those subscribed to the public feed wouldn’t see them in the feed. Posts that are likely to have broader appeal, like a cookie party for students, should be marked with the External category, or both the Internal and External categories.

There will be links to both the External and Internal feeds on the blog homepage with a description of the content featured in each so that site visitors can choose how they will read about LIS.

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Links to Resources for Consideration

Posted in LIS Website Teams
July 1st, 2009 by Ian McBride

I’ve added a section to the LIS Website Wiki with links to some resources we should look at as part of this project. Of special note are the strategic recommendations from White Whale, where I recommend reading the sections “Blogs dot Middlebury”, “Midd Search”, and “Managing content in an unpredictable environment” as those are the most relevant to our project, though the rest of the document is interesting as well. I’ve also linked to the test instance of Drupal that I set up for the Helpdesk. You can log in as yourself, but you won’t really be able to do anything, so you might want to log in as an admin instead (username is “admin” and password is “testpassword”). Poke around and have fun. Don’t worry about messing anything up, as I’ve got this whole thing backed up and can recreate a fresh copy in about 20 seconds. Just let me know if I need to. If you want to ask me questions about Drupal, feel free to do so here or stop by my office any time I’m not in a meeting and I can help you out. I’ve also listed our scope from the meeting and added a page to discuss the metrics and how we’ll measure success.

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How to get blog updates

Posted in LIS Website Teams
June 25th, 2009 by Ian McBride

Elin suggested we add in a way to subscribe by email, so you can now do that at through the email subscription form, or even using the form in this post. There are also the entries RSS and comments RSS feeds. I personally use Google Reader to collect all my feeds.

Your email:

 

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