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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 [...]
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New WordPress user Martha Stewart dedicated the September 17 episode of The Martha Stewart Show to blogging!
On the show, Martha explains how she and her staff utilize The Martha Blog and chats with some of her favorite bloggers, including WordPress users Margaret Roach, Perez Hilton, and Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman.
Martha loves the exposure and ease of use of her blog:
I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now and I have to say that I love being able to communicate so easily on a daily basis. Being in the public eye, I have a devoted following that wants to know more about my personal life and activities. Prior to blogging, we sent out a newsletter dealing with such issues. Although the printed newsletter was charming and informative, it was also a rather slow process and didn’t reach nearly as many readers as this blog does.
I really love the spontaneity of blogging and being able to post whatever, whenever.
Here’s a clip from the show:
Check out her post for tips on blogging and details about her blogging contest.
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How cool, I didn’t know that Martha even had a blog, and it shows how smart she is since she’s using WP!
So glad you posted about this, Heather. In my segment with Martha yesterday, for whom I worked for 15 years until starting my own company in January, we talked about WordPress…so once the clips are live on http://marthastewart.com in the next day or two from yesterday’s ‘Martha’ show, you can have a listen.
Did I just see Martha using IE5 (1:58)?
No arguments from me Heather! Blogging is absolutely the fastest way to get your message out there. I’ve been mailing printed newsletters to my clients for years very successfully – but as a client retention and referral building marketing tool. That’s really the only (and best) way you would want to use printed newsletters.
Sweet……Never knew she had a blog
ummm according to typepad she also has one there.
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The Martha Blog switched from Typepad to WordPress a few weeks ago: http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/09/08/martha-stewart-wordpress/