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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 [...]
A Way to Garden, a beautifully designed new WordPress powered blog has launched.
Focused on American gardens, it’s written by Margaret Roach who was previously garden editor at Newsday and most recently at Martha Stewart Living, first as its garden editor and then as editorial director for the company.
The new blog and Margaret’s story was covered in the New York Times recently.
[ Visit A Way to Garden ]
This brought a giant smile to my face: being noted by you as being part of WP. I knew that gardeners would like me…but to have this new community, WP, say “she’s OK,” too is pretty special. Couldn’t have done it w/o designer Ken Smith, http://kennethbsmith.com, who hacked Brian Gardner’s Blue Zin masterfully in my horticultural behalf.
A Way To Garden is such a refreshing way to start my day! Thanks, Margaret, and WordPress.
Cheerio,
Kassie
Hooray for A Way to Garden — and for Margaret. An inspiration online and off.
Roach rocks!
Thank you for the kind words about the design. Besides being an encyclopedia of gardeknowledge, Margaret is terrific to work with. And so is WordPress. We looked at other blogging software, but being Open Source, WP was our first choice. Kinda like those Verison commercials where we have an army off-screen to support and create great solutions for this new communication medium. We both came from print journalism. Tomorrow (and today) belong to WordPress.
Ah, this is nice to see. The design, photography, and writing on AWTG all make this site a beautiful package.
ditto, ditto, ditto. love the site!
WP is very discerning! I echo the sentiment!
A Way to Garden is already inspiring me to garden at a new level, since my reading is mostly online. I am also delighted to begin to hear Margaret Roach’s voice. Lovely and congrats!!
She surely does rock. As a gardener, a boss, and a friend.
M
So happy to see the recognition for such an informative and beautiful site! Thanks, awaytogarden, and wordpress too. Cheers
Thanks wordpress for giving this lovely blog the attention it deserves.
Another big yay! What a wonderful thing to have happen for a wonderful blog!
Hats off to both A Way to Garden and WordPress!!!
AWTG is a perfect sanctuary for those looking to escape and for those who are just looking…
A perfect place to dream.
margaret has always been such an amazingly inspiring woman — as gardener, writer, and innovator. how perfectly natural that she’d take to WP in her latest foray of communicating her fantastic message to the world. cheers WP, for finding her out there, and for acknowledging the beauty she brings to life each day!
A Way to Garden is wonderful. Thank you for recognizing this exceptional blog.
Kudos to Margaret for such an outstanding site. Thank you WP for recognizing her inspiring creation.
Another round of applause for the amazing blog and the amazing Margaret, thanks wordpress!
It’s great to hear tips and guides from the expert in the field. Keep up the good work Margaret.