Student Life Selects WordPress MU

Sam Guzik over on CoPress.org details the successful relaunch of Student Life, the “independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis”, on the WordPress MU platform:

In their evaluation of various platform choices they concluded:
“Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow [...]

Fifty Sites. Ten Months. One CMS.

I’ve been chatting with the folks at Tierra Innovation and WNET.ORG (Channel Thirteen in New York) on their impressive collaboration utilizing WordPress MU as a CMS for WNET.ORG’s network of high-traffic websites:

Using WordPress MU’s built-in features along with custom themes and plugins such as WPDB Profiling, they made it easier and much cheaper for WNET.ORG [...]

The Ford Story Chooses WordPress

The Ford Story is a recently launched site committed to making Ford’s progress towards getting new high-quality, fuel-efficient cars, and trucks on the road today transparent and open. The site is completely powered by WordPress and uses WordPress as a CMS to deliver a wide variety of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.

We talked [...]

“Welcome to Thomson Reuters” Hosted on WordPress.com VIP

21 Apr 08
Raanan Bar-Cohen

The newly formed Thomson Reuters Corp made its highly anticipated debut this past Thursday. Thomson Reuters is now the largest business focused media company in the world with 50,000 employees and annual revenues of more than $12.5 billion.

To communicate to various groups about the new combined entity, Thomson Reuters selected WordPress.com VIP to host this high-traffic and high-profile site:

The Web Communications team at Thomson Reuters was able to quickly get the site built using a custom theme. Leveraging the WordPress.com grid infrastructure, the team was able to deliver a superior user experience, particularly during the high traffic spikes.

As with other large traffic spike sites on WordPress.com VIP such as Gizmodo’s Live Blog – it’s good to know that when the world shows up at your door step, it’s an opportunity, not a problem.

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7 Responses to ““Welcome to Thomson Reuters” Hosted on WordPress.com VIP”

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  1. Chris April 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    They are using a modified Brian Gardner theme. I have chosen to do the same thing on one of our sites; they have good taste. They aren’t a 12.5 billion dollar company for nothing!

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  3. Ryan April 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 am

    It’s nice to see major companies appreciating the high quality service offered by the Automattic crew.

  4. Daniel Richard | Winning Everyone April 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    “welcometothomsonreuters” sounds long enough to type. :)

    The announcement for using WordPress.com VIP shows the top quality and powerful services that Automattic provides.

    Awesome job guys!

  5. Adam W. Warner April 24th, 2008 at 5:38 am

    Glad to see you here. One suggestion if I may? An email subscription option. I’m a web developer, and I certainly understand the power and convenience of RSS, but getting updates via email is preferable to some.

  6. propaganda press April 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    impressive!
    so even the big schwigs are catching on eh :D

  7. Raanan Bar-Cohen April 25th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    @adam –

    Thanks for the suggestion — that’s a good idea and something we are looking into.