http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp Making a difference in public policy and Making it easier Sat, 26 May 2007 02:40:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And registration has been turned off. Contact nancy if you’ve got questions http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2007/05/25/registration-turned-off/ This site is attracting some spam commenters. Since there hasn’ t been any commenting recently (ever?), I’m turning off the commenting functionality. We’re running an old version of the software and upgrading improves things, but it’s not on my schedule yet. http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2006/06/29/comments-have-been-turned-off/ This NCWU WordPress system hasn’t had much attention lately. More investigation of WordPress has been done in the context of AAUW NC - see http://news.aauwnc.org (a “news” system - think of how we’d use something like that for “alerts”, “events,” “jobs” …), and http://asheville.aauwnc.org (a simple “normal” web site) for examples. ... http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2006/04/11/notes-on-this-system/ See http://www.planscalendar.com/ - Perl, but maybe closer to what we need. Browser editing… http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2006/03/10/yet-another-calendar-2/ Check out http://ncwu.sgtst.com/calendar I’m willing to call this the calendar “solution”. [We’ve canceled the Ontero account and so needed something by Monday the 5th or needed to reprint the business cards that say we provide a “master calendar” for our member organizations’ events. ] If you use an iCal compliant client, subscribe ... http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2005/11/30/calendar-solution-goes-to-beta/ Venue, http://www.venuecom.com/Hosting/hosting_iCal.htm, offers a WebDAV enabled calendar (iCal) account for $25/year. It appears to be based on PHP iCal, but may certainly be worth the cost — at least for the transition between RTPnet and any WordPress/Dreamhost based account. http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2005/11/25/may-have-found-the-calendar-solution/ I don’t know whether these demos are a new feature or whether I just completely blanked about them. At www.opensourcecms.org you can “kick the tires” on wide array of systems - from wiki, to groupware, to blog, to cms. http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2005/10/11/cms-demos/ There are a couple of earlier posts about e-mail integration with Wordpress, but this note is an attempt to capture recent thoughts. 1. E-mail posting to Wordpress This would be useful for setting up a gateway from the alerts@ncwu.org e-mail list to the WP system. See http://www.economysizegeek.com/?page_id=395 for a plugin that appears to ... http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2005/10/02/email-and-word-press/ Here’s a TechSoup “conversation” on using Mambo TechSoup - Forums: Designing a website and Mambo http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2005/09/23/techsoup-forums-designing-a-website-and-mambo/ This TechSoup article from 2003 may still be useful as we go through the upgrade process: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Nonprofit Web Sites http://www.ncwu.sgtst.com/wp/2005/09/23/evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-nonprofit-web-sites/