I find myself on this day feeling drained yet excited. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of activity. In addition to traveling to Utah for eportfolio conference and speaking at the Grad School new student orientation, Movable Type 4.2 was released on August 12th. Since that date TK Lee, Chris Stubbs, James Vuccolo, Erin Long have all been working to make this update happen for the blogs@psu community and in place before the start of classes. Looks like we will get it in just under the wire with the upgrade happening during the maintenance window at 5:30 am on Monday morning.
This update will bring some welcome bug fixes and scalability fixes, but more importantly the ability to create not just a standard blog, but websites based on various template sets. Blogs@psu was always meant to not just provide blogs, but a general web publishing tool to the University community. With the professional template set being installed with MT 4.2, we see blogs@psu being used as a much more robust portfolio tool than it was previously. This template set is just the beginning. Going forward, we can start to add new template sets to allow blogs@psu to function as various other web-based social tools: Note taking, social bookmarking, photo sharing. I am excited to get this tool in the hands of the users, then to start building upon the foundation that MT 4.2 gives us.
For more information about the professional template set, go check out this screen cast at the blog community hub.
This update will bring some welcome bug fixes and scalability fixes, but more importantly the ability to create not just a standard blog, but websites based on various template sets. Blogs@psu was always meant to not just provide blogs, but a general web publishing tool to the University community. With the professional template set being installed with MT 4.2, we see blogs@psu being used as a much more robust portfolio tool than it was previously. This template set is just the beginning. Going forward, we can start to add new template sets to allow blogs@psu to function as various other web-based social tools: Note taking, social bookmarking, photo sharing. I am excited to get this tool in the hands of the users, then to start building upon the foundation that MT 4.2 gives us.
For more information about the professional template set, go check out this screen cast at the blog community hub.
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