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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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- Publisher Blog Feed (RSS 2.0)
Three exciting blogs have launched in the WordPress.com VIP program: Hack a Day, Blog Maverick, and Calacanis.com.
Hackaday.com “… serves up fresh hacks each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week.” It’s a must-read site with a very strong following and very compelling content.
BlogMaverick.com, Mark Cuban’s personal blog, is always topical and controversial, and a great read. Mark Founded MicroSolutions, AudioNet/Broadcast.com and is currently the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and chairman of HDNet. You may have also seen him on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.
Calacanis.com is Jason Calacanis’s blog – and while he’s technically retired from blogging (for now) – his site serves as his personal hub and an archive of previous blog posts. Jason founded Weblogs, Inc and is the founder of Mahalo.com a “human-powered search engine”.
As many of you know, all three blogs were previously hosted with Blogsmith, and each of these blogs routinely receives massive traffic spikes which the WordPress.com grid is ideally suited to handle.
[ Visit Hack a Day, Blog Maverick, and Calacanis.com ]
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