Blogs at Penn State

Posted on May 6, 2007 
Filed Under Blogs at PSU

Blogs Tag SmallAfter close to a year of planning, testing, and development the Blogs at Penn State project has entered into its open pilot. In the last two weeks we’ve added about 60 new people to the pilot test group. The idea is to add about 20 or so a week for the next few weeks until we have everyone in who has requested an account. So far, those of us who have used the environment seem to like it quite a bit. It is honestly very exciting to hear people’s reaction to it … especially those who have never used a dynamic publishing environment to manage their content.

Long term the vision is to leverage this platform as a way for Penn State faculty, staff, and students to rethink their use of the web. The toolset will allow us, over time, to add new features to enable all sorts of opportunities. As people become more familiar with how it all works we’ll be able to help people think about how they will take notes, share course materials, work on study groups, share research findings, and really anything they can imagine. The ETS Blog Team has also started a companion PSU Blogger Community Hub site to help people get started … take a look and let us know what you think. It feels like the start of something good.

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