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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
The Times, a South African media brand from AVUSA Media recently relaunched a new and improved Times Multimedia portal, which is based on WordPress.
The slick looking design appears to be an extension of a theme from WPelements.
Hopefully all South African WordPress enthusiasts already have WordCamp South Africa marked on their calendars.
It’s awesome to see some exposure for South African WP-related projects here. In preparation for WordCamp SA, we had held a WP Cape Town meetup yesterday, where 50 odd WP enthusiasts pitched up to just discuss everything WP.
The multimedia site from Avusa really is slick. As Adii said, at last nights WordPress meetup I did a quick announcement about Wordcamp and the response was overwhelming! Looking forward to it!
Everyone was very stoked to hear what you had to say Adii! The Meetup Rocked. Strange that this was exactly what you were talking about. Great to see that something like this got a two thumbs up. It really looks great.