Hrm, why aren’t we doing this?

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So, one of the things I’ve been doing is testing out stuff that we could be doing at my job at OEIT–for my team, our office and the university. I’m struck by…why aren’t we doing this? (And yes there’s a back story.)

The final set up is really quite sweet. A member of the university goes to https://blogs.lincoln.ac.uk for the first time and logs in with their usual credentials. The first time they login, they are signed up. That’s it. No sign up page needed. It’s as if they were already a member of the social network, which, being members of the university, they are of course. From there, they see the BuddyPress home pages, can join groups, change their profiles and, when they’re ready, create or join a blog.

Winn, J. (2009, February 17). BuddyPress: A university’s social network. Retrieved June 18, 2009 from ../learninglab/joss Web site: http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/02/17/buddypress-a-universitys-social-network/

Aside: I’m not sure I really like the BuddyPress user interface nor how much WordPress MU seems to lag behind the regular WordPress releases, but I do really like the notion of social network, collaboration and publishing platform.

Thanks to Brian Lamb‘s post for pointing this out.
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